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Melissa
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1st lesson free
- Spanish
- Spanish speaking
- Spanish Vocabulary
- Spanish writing
- DELE
I Learned My Spanish in Markets Not Classrooms Five Years Teaching Eighty Students the Kind of Spanish You Actually Need While Traveling and Living Abroad
- Spanish
- Spanish speaking
- Spanish Vocabulary
- Spanish writing
- DELE
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About Melissa
I spent several years backpacking through Latin America picking up Spanish the hard way, through actual conversation, confusion, and plenty of awkward moments rather than formal classroom study. Five years into teaching now, I've worked with about eighty students, mostly people planning travel or already living somewhere new who want practical, real-world Spanish fast. I never trained formally as a language teacher, and I'm upfront about that, because my real strength is understanding exactly what a nervous traveler actually needs to survive and thrive in daily conversation abroad. I connect particularly well with students who felt bored or discouraged by traditional classroom Spanish, since I learned everything the unconventional way myself and genuinely understand that frustration firsthand. My teaching style is relaxed, conversational, and a bit unstructured compared to more formal programs, built entirely around real usage rather than exam preparation alone. I care far more about a student confidently haggling at a market or chatting with a new neighbor than about grammatical perfection on paper somewhere. Watching a nervous student successfully hold their first real conversation with a native speaker remains genuinely the best part of this whole job. If you want Spanish for actually living your life, not just passing a test, I think we'll get along well.
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- Primary
- Secondary
- Preparatory
- +16
levels :
Primary
Secondary
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Technical Secondary School
Adult Education
Masters
Doctorate
Kindergarten
A1
A2
B1
B2
C1
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Beginner
Intermediate
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Children
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
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I picked up most of my own Spanish backpacking through Latin America for years, not sitting in classrooms, so my lessons lean heavily toward real, usable conversation rather than textbook formality nobody actually speaks day to day. We start talking from lesson one, genuinely talking, because I remember how useless years of grammar drills felt compared to a single real conversation with a market vendor or a new friend. Grammar still gets covered properly, but I introduce it as it comes up naturally in real conversation rather than front-loading a wall of rules before anyone's said a single sentence. Vocabulary focuses on what you'd genuinely need travelling, ordering food, asking directions, chatting with locals, rather than obscure formal terms you'll likely never actually use in daily life. I use a lot of roleplay, pretending we're at a market, a bus station, a bar, because that pressure of figuring it out live is exactly how I actually learned Spanish myself. Mistakes are treated as completely normal here, genuinely no big deal, since I made hundreds of embarrassing ones while learning and turned out fine regardless in the end. I keep lessons loose and conversational rather than rigidly structured, adjusting constantly based on what a student actually wants to talk about. This is Spanish for living life, not passing a test.
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- 143AED
Pack prices
- 5h: 715AED
- 10h: 1430AED
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- 143AED/h
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The first free lesson with Melissa will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
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