Want to learn Spanish?

Congratulations, you have come to exactly the right place!

This site is dedicated to helping English-speakers to learn conversational Spanish. Once you can understand Spanish and make yourself understood; carry on a general conversation in Spanish, you will have the basics and will be able to go as deeply or as broadly into the language as you wish.

The hardest part is getting over that initial hurdle, to the point that it all starts to make sense to you and come together in your ability to communicate.  We can help you get to that point in the easiest, fastest way.

Who am I and what do I know?  Fair questions!

Jorge Chavez here, at your service.  My mother was "una norteamericana" from Virginia. My father was from Central America. I was born in Costa Rica, taken to the U.S. where I grew up with my first cousins in my Uncle's household. I was educated only in English and did not start to learn Spanish until after I was 30 years old.

So I too, was once exactly where you probably are right now -- speaking English and wanting to speak Spanish too!

It took me years, trying all sorts of ways; classes, tutors, books, tapes and just talking with friends and relatives in Spanish and begging them to correct me (most were too polite to do so!). But now I am bilingual and can communicate well in either language.

Through my personal experiences I know a little about learning Spanish, have some experiences, examples and observations to draw upon.

It took me years to stumble around and gradually, finally learn Spanish!

It is my sincere desire to help you learn Spanish fast and easy and avoid all the mistakes I made and the problems I had!

The best way to learn Spanish today (other than moving to a Spanish-speaking country and hiring a local Spanish teacher as a tutor!) is through an interactive audio learning course.

With this type of Spanish learning program you listen to audio recordings of excellent native speakers, speaking slowly and clearly, and you interact with them. You start with "repeat after me", go on to questions and answers and continue to interact vocally.

The advantages of this method of language-learning are:

 You go at your own pace, not the pace of the class.

 You can repeat each lesson as often as you like, until you have mastered each to your satisfaction.

 Lessons can be offloaded to your iPod or other portable audio device. You can then take the lessons whenever and wherever you want to.

 You buy your copy of the learning program, so it's yours.  You have it with you always, can brush up on lessons at any time (even on the plane to Acapulco!) and you can hear the correct accent whenever you choose.

 With downloadable materials you can get started with lessons only minutes after you purchase the course.

 Since the costs of printing, shipping, handling, etc. are saved, the cost of this type of course is much less than what you would pay for classroom instruction. 

I have checked out and assembled a number of excellent interactive audio courses to help you learn Spanish, fast and easy.

See them here: Learn Spanish