OUR METHOD
DISCOVER HERE ITS FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS
MAXIMIZE THE SPEAKING PRACTISE
A language cannot be learnt properly without speaking. Repeating vocabulary and clue sentences aloud is essential during the process. In Spanish Compass all the actions inside the Virtual Classroom are focused to make the student practise it. Of course, we also work in reading or writing, but always in a secondary importance level compared with the main goal: make the student speak.
1-TO-1 CLASSES WITH QUALIFIED TEACHERS
The personal attention given by our qualified teachers is absolutely essential to ensure the correct speech of the student and to avoid general mistakes from the beginning. All our courses are based on this rule: a 30 minutes individual class on Skype every 10 words of vocabulary learnt, as a minimum. No other academy online will bring you this level of personalized attention.
TEACH THE VOCABULARY IN THE RIGHT MOMENT
Having available a long vocabulary list to memorize without knowing the rules that let you use it is simply useless. Of course, our students know all the corresponding vocabulary of the chosen level at the end of the course, but we present it to them using logic and progressive rules. We offer the clue words for fast progress at the first steps, and we complement them with other secondary according to the progress of each student.
GUIDING THE STUDENT AT EVERY STEP
By using the algorithms of our Virtual Classroom combined with the evaluations of our teachers and academic coach, each student will receive the content differently. These decisions are always based on the exact necessities of each learner. Of course, all of them have the same level when they finish the course, but each one has been learning using a personalized order of the contents.
PERSONALIZED CLASSES: THE BEST WAY TO LEARN
WHICH FEATURES HAVE OUR SPANISH CLASSES?
SHORT AND PRACTICAL CLASSES
All our classes are 30 minutes long. This way, you can practise the speaking 1-to-1 with the teacher and receive personalized explanations.
BASED ON YOUR PREVIOUS WORK
Teachers prepare each class by analyzing your individual work in the virtual classroom. So, they can know your level of progress and in which parts they have to insist on with more intensity.
DIFFERENT SCHEDULE FOR CLASSES
You can choose the schedule for the class between those available matching with your necessities. We offer classes during the 365 days of the year.
HOW ARE OUR TEACHERS?
PROFESSIONALS OFFICIALLY QUALIFIED
All our teachers are university graduated in a field related to the pedagogics or philology and the teaching of Spanish as Second Language obtained with the Cervantes Institute.
ACCREDITED TRAINERS FOR OFFICIAL EXAMS
All our teachers have also the official Instituto Cervantes' accreditation for being trainers of the DELE and SIELE official exams, so they know them perfectly for teaching all about them.
CONTINUOUS TRAINING PROGRAM
In Spanish Compass we believe that every professional need to be improving constantly. So, we are always encouraging our teachers to study new courses and giving them the time for it.
LEARN FROM YOUR MOTHER LANGUAGE
WE TEACH USING LOGICAL EXPLANATIONS
In Spanish Compass we know that if you have to use a foreign language fluidly, you need to understand the logic behind it first. For that reason, all the grammatical explanations, pronunciation rules or translations are always based in comparations with your mother language to allow you comprehensible learning with less effort.
EQUAL CONTENT, DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS
If we compare the contents of a particular course given to 2 students with different mother language, we will see that the content to learn is exactly the same. But, the way to explain the logic behind that content can be totally different. The reason is that we are always aiming for taking profit of the inner mental structures already internalized in each student.