Our track record speaks for itself – Learn to speak everyday Spanish naturally in just 20 hours of tuition through real conversation, personalized instruction, and a cognitive linguistics approach designed to help you understand how Spanish works, not simply memorize it. SpanishNOW has been teaching students to speak Spanish with confidence in Ottawa since 2007.
Founded and acredited by INATEC in Granada, Nicaragua in 2004, SpanishNOW has been recognized as the best Spanish school by Lonely Planet Travel books for three consecutive years from 2004 to 2007. We have been teaching Spanish in Ottawa since 2007, and we have also been privately commissioned to teach Spanish in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Costa Rica, and Istanbul.
SpanishNOW is a PROMISE.
First, you learn with an experienced Spanish language educator whose teaching approach has been shaped by cognitive linguistics, conversational language learning and more than two decades of curriculum development and instruction.
Rather than asking you to memorize endless vocabulary lists and grammar rules in isolation, SpanishNOW helps you understand the patterns and meanings behind Spanish, then put them
into practice through real conversation
Second, your Spanish lessons are structured around you. Instruction adapts to your learning style, existing Spanish level, goals, ability and pace. From your first classes, you begin using Spanish actively, building the confidence to understand, respond and eventually think in Spanish rather than constantly translating from English.
At SpanishNOW, we prioritize convenience and flexibility while ensuring that you don’t sacrifice your leisure time. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to learn in a public setting, making it easier to communicate in social and public situations.
The promise of SpanishNOW is to effectively teach Spanish through personalized and immersive conversational and cognitive teaching methods.
Founded and acredited by INATEC in Granada, Nicaragua in 2004, SpanishNOW has been recognized as the best Spanish school by Lonely Planet Travel books for three consecutive years from 2004 to 2007. We have been teaching Spanish in Ottawa since 2007, and we have also been privately commissioned to teach Spanish in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Costa Rica, and Istanbul.
Why do some students study Spanish for years yet freeze when it is time to speak?
Our program goes beyond surface-level communication to facilitate fluent, native-like conversation. At SpanishNOW, learning Spanish is not simply an exercise in memorizing words, verb tables and grammar rules. My teaching draws on principles from cognitive linguistics, an approach that places meaning, patterns, context and the way people conceptualize language at the centre of learning.
Instead of treating Spanish grammar as a collection of arbitrary rules, we explore why Spanish expresses an idea in a particular way, recognize recurring language patterns, and immediately put those patterns to work in conversation.
This helps you build connections between meaning, grammar, vocabulary and real communication, so you are not constantly translating a sentence word by word before speaking.
The goal is simple: understand Spanish, use Spanish and gradually learn to think in Spanish
Top-rated by our Ottawa students! At SpanishNOW, our students love our proven cognitive teaching method and the rapid progress they achieve. With 80+ glowing reviews, they rave about the fast progress from beginners to advanced, fun classes, and real confidence to speak Spanish fluently after a few sesions.
We believe that learning a new language should be an enjoyable experience. You can take a no-strings-attached, 45-minute tryout Spanish class for only $60 (regular price: $65/class). After the tryout class, you can commit to a 10-lesson package priced at $375 or $500. This package includes 2 – 45-minute lessons, taken at once, weekly. All learning materials are provided!
With over 23 years of experience as a Spanish teacher, I have found that one-on-one or two-on-one classes are the most effective way to achieve conversational fluency in the shortest time. The maximum group size for the two-on-one package is two students, provided both have the same language proficiency level.
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