People always ask me how I achieved a native level of English when I never took lessons. I say it's simple: Find a way to love the learning process and you'll be dreaming in fluent Spanish in no time.

Perfect! Along with being beautiful, charming and talented Sophia is both an insightful linguistic scholar and patient highly adaptable instructor. She goes to great lengths to shed light on confusion regarding the idiosyncrasies of Spanish, often responding to my queries in the middle of the night on Whatsapp. To have progressed to the point where I’m semi-conversant in basic Spanish has been a life-changer, opening new possibilities for friendship, collaboration and romance. I’ve just returned last night from a solo voyage to Colombia. To wit, if you are in New York, want to learn to speak Spanish, and don’t sign up for at least a free trial lesson with Sophia, then you are an idiot.