Santiago Navarrete
Educator and researcher in the humanities, currently connecting people through language.
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Santiago Navarrete
Doctorate 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 University of Notre Dame
Spanish tutor language skill
Role Playing Scenarios
Spanish language skill
Pronunciation Coaching
Vocabulary Building
Cultural Context for Speaking
Cultural immersion
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Learner types for spanish classes
Spanish for intermediate
ADHD
ASD
Spanish for beginners
Anxiety or Stress Disorders
Spanish for adults
Spanish for advanced
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
Conversational Spanish
Spanish concepts taught by Santiago
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.
Understanding Spanish Cognates and Language Roots
Informal Spanish Expressions: '¿Qué Pasa?'
Ways to Say Goodbye in Spanish
Formal and Informal Expressions
Spanish Greetings and Time of Day
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
Subjunctive Mood
News Headlines and Vocabulary
The Tutor and Student began an introductory session on the Spanish simple past tense, focusing on vocabulary recall and basic sentence construction. They practiced identifying sentence types and describing experiences in the past, with plans to delve deeper into conjugations in future classes.
Simple Past Tense in Spanish
Distinguishing Ser vs. Estar in the Past
Vocabulary for Describing Experiences
Past Tense of Irregular Verbs
The tutor and student reviewed Spanish prepositions used with various verbs, focusing on context-dependent usage and common verb-preposition pairings. The student practiced identifying and applying these in exercises and was assigned homework to narrate a biography using specific verbs and prepositions.
Understanding and Using Vocabulary in Context
Verb Regimes and Prepositions
Present Perfect Continuous (for two years)
Narrative Tenses and Storytelling
Learning tools used in spanish classes
Language simulations
Writing prompts
Subtitled media
Phonetic drills
Game based learning tools
Dynamic spanish lessons
Weekend lessons
Open Q&A
Pets are welcomed
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