Santiago Navarrete
Educator and researcher in the humanities, currently connecting people through language.
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Santiago Navarrete
Masters degree
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Each lesson is 55 min
50 lessons
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30 lessons
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20 lessons
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10 lessons
5% off
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About your spanish tutor
I am a language instructor with over five years of experience in middle and higher education, specializing in Spanish classes for learners at all levels. My expertise lies in providing personalized learning experiences that develop speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills. I offer engaging lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students. I create a dynamic classroom environment through role-playing and task-based activities, focusing on real-life, contextualized, and culturally relevant situations. Media, art, design and gaming are also part of each class. As a teacher and educator, I am skilled at addressing diverse student needs and providing a comfortable, supportive space to learn. Whether your goal is to start learning a new language, improve your business Spanish or to gain a deeper understanding of our literature and culture, I will guide you every step of the way.
Meet Santiago
Santiago graduated from Universidad de los Andes
Spanish tutor language skill
Spanish language skill
Test prep strategies
Pronunciation Coaching
Cultural immersion
Role Playing Scenarios
Conversational Practice
Learner types for spanish classes
Spanish for intermediate
ASD
ADHD
Spanish for beginners
Anxiety or Stress Disorders
Spanish for advanced
Spanish for adults
Spanish classes highlights
I view learning as a constructive process where students actively build and adapt knowledge through meaningful engagement and use. In my Spanish classes, I balance professionalism and approachability, creating a supportive environment that fosters participation, confidence, and trust when taking risks. My methodology blends role-play, task-based learning, and cultural immersion through songs, short stories, games, and discussions, allowing students to connect lessons to authentic, real-life contexts. I treat mistakes as valuable opportunities to clarify concepts and expand understanding. This approach consistently strengthens speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills while motivating learners to produce personal, meaningful work and develop a deeper connection with the Spanish language and its diverse cultures.
Spanish tutor also teaches
Spanish
Spanish Listening
Spanish Reading
Spanish Speaking
Spanish Writing
Spanish Grammar & Vocabulary
Flexible Scheduling
Allows 1h early scheduling
Allows 1h early rescheduling
Can wait for 20 mins after joining
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10 day Refund
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Spanish concepts taught by Santiago
The tutor and student reviewed and practiced Spanish expressions for stating opinions, preferences, and justifications. The session included a practical exercise where the student planned a hypothetical trip, applying learned comparative and opinion-expressing phrases. The next step involves preparing a presentation on where the student would like to live in Spain, including research and visual aids.
Expressing Opinions and Preferences
Comparisons with 'que' and 'como'
Connectors for Contrast and Addition
Justifying Choices ('porque')
The Tutor and Student reviewed Spanish comparative structures and vocabulary, focusing on how to compare people, places, and characteristics using 'más que' and 'menos que'. The Student practiced describing and comparing elements through exercises, and homework was assigned to compare two people and two places using comparative phrases.
Adjective Agreement in Spanish
Vocabulary for Weather and Climate
Describing Physical Characteristics
Comparatives in Spanish
The Tutor and Student practiced describing personality and physical appearance in Spanish, utilizing the verbs 'ser' and 'tener'. They engaged in listening comprehension, drawing exercises based on descriptions, and sentence construction. Homework involves self-description and describing four other individuals with a focus on connecting qualities to activities.
Describing Physical Appearance and Temporary Traits with 'Tener'
Connecting Actions to Descriptions
Using 'K' for Descriptions
Verb Conjugation for Plural Descriptions
Describing Personality with 'Ser'
The tutor and student reviewed the Spanish pluperfect tense, focusing on its use to describe actions that had already happened before another past event. They practiced this through listening comprehension exercises using a video about the brand Zara, analyzing past business decisions and their consequences, and worked on constructing sentences to describe temporal relationships between past actions.
Pluscuamperfecto (Past Perfect)
Past Simple vs. Past Perfect
Verb 'haber' as an Auxiliary
Spanish Verb Conjugation: AR Verbs
Spanish Verb Conjugation: ER and IR Verbs
Reflexive vs. Non-Reflexive Verbs
Expressing Time in Spanish
The Tutor and Student reviewed Spanish verb tenses, focusing on the preterite perfect and imperfect past. They practiced company research and listening comprehension exercises. New homework was assigned to further reinforce the understanding of verb tense distinctions and the use of 'haber'.
Distinguishing 'Ser' and 'Estar' - Existence vs. State
Subjunctive Mood in Spanish
Auxiliary Verb Usage in Spanish Past Tenses
Periphrastic Perfect vs. Imperfect Past in Spanish
Learning tools used in spanish classes
Interactive quizzes
Game based learning tools
Writing prompts
Grammar practice
Subtitled media
Dynamic spanish lessons
Weekend lessons
Record lessons
Open Q&A
Parent feedback
Pets are welcomed
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