Santiago Navarrete
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Santiago Navarrete
Masters degree
/ 55 min
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
Cultural Context for Speaking
Pronunciation Coaching
Test prep strategies
Spanish language skill
Cultural immersion
Homework help
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Spanish for advanced
Anxiety or Stress Disorders
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Spanish for beginners
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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.
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Spanish
Spanish Listening
Spanish Reading
Spanish Speaking
Spanish Writing
Conversational Spanish
Spanish concepts taught by Santiago
The tutor and student reviewed Spanish past tenses, focusing on the imperfect and indefinido. They practiced identifying and using these tenses through sentence analysis, verb conjugation, and narrative creation. The student was encouraged to use descriptive language and incorporate past tenses in storytelling activities.
Imperfect vs. Indefinite Past Tense in Spanish
Vocabulary Building: Contextual Learning
Language Learning: Organic vs. Disciplined Practice
The Role of Practice Materials in Language Acquisition
The student and tutor reviewed and practiced the Spanish preterite tense, focusing on verb conjugations, expressing past experiences, and giving opinions. They also began introducing the concept of the imperfect tense for future lessons, and the student was assigned homework to reflect on recent activities using the past tense.
Simple Past Tense Review
Expressing Opinions and Reactions
Vocabulary Expansion for Past Experiences
Introduction to Imperfect Tense
The student and tutor reviewed basic Spanish greetings and farewells, exploring their formal and informal contexts. They practiced understanding and using various expressions and discussed potential future lesson structures focusing on vocabulary and verb tenses for conversational practice.
Formal and Informal Expressions
Spanish Greetings and Time of Day
Understanding Spanish Cognates and Language Roots
Ways to Say Goodbye in Spanish
Informal Spanish Expressions: '¿Qué Pasa?'
The tutor and student reviewed Spanish vocabulary and practiced the simple past tense, focusing on adjective placement and sentence construction. They engaged in interactive exercises and games to reinforce learning, and the student was assigned homework to describe past experiences using a wider range of past tense verbs.
Simple Past Tense in Spanish
Spanish Adjective Placement
Distinguishing Ser and Estar
Vocabulary: Describing Experiences
The tutor and student practiced Spanish speaking and listening skills, reinforcing past tenses, the subjunctive mood, and vocabulary related to various scenarios. The student also completed a writing exercise applying grammatical concepts, with a focus on future class scheduling pending renewal.
'Ser' vs. 'Estar' for States and Conditions
Subjunctive Mood for Requests
Past Tenses: Imperfect vs. Preterite
Passive Voice in Spanish
Verb Conjugation with Prepositions
The student and tutor reviewed Spanish verb tenses, focusing on the imperfect and preterite, and the subjunctive mood. They practiced identifying correct verb usage through various exercises and analyzed news headlines. The homework includes practice exercises on prepositions and verb tenses.
Imperfect vs. Simple Past Tense
News Headlines and Vocabulary
Subjunctive Mood
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Interactive quizzes
Grammar practice
Subtitled media
Writing prompts
Dynamic spanish lessons
Weekend lessons
Open Q&A
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