by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
To stay consistent learning Spanish, stop relying on motivation and build a small system instead: a routine of 20 minutes or less, tied to a habit you already have, that you can keep even in your busiest week. Hannah has taught Spanish for nearly 20 years, and she...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 28, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
Code-switching is when a bilingual person moves between two languages in the same conversation, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. For Hannah, a Spanish coach from the US who lives in Mexico, it usually happens for three reasons: a Spanish word says something...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 25, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
You freeze because your brain has practiced understanding Spanish far more than producing it, and because in the moment you are trying to build a perfect answer instead of a functional one. It is not a knowledge problem. It is a retrieval problem, and retrieval is...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 23, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
You forget Spanish words quickly because you are reviewing them too few times, too close together, and never using them for anything real. Recognizing a word and being able to produce it under pressure are two different skills. The fix is fewer words, spaced...
by Hannah Pinkerton | Sep 20, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
If you asked most people what makes Spanish hard for English speakers, they’d say the subjunctive, or ser versus estar, or por versus para. We went through 113 of our own one-to-one sessions with 16 adult students, tagged what each session actually spent time...
by Hannah Pinkerton | Sep 20, 2026 | Blog, Learning Spanish as an Adult
If you’re wondering how many Spanish classes it takes before the language starts to feel like yours, we can answer that with our own records rather than a guess. We went back through 1,896 one-to-one classes taught since 2020, to 67 adult students, and counted...
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