Hello! My name is Beatriz and if you are here it's because you want to get to know me a little before you book a class with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am a very joyful person and when I do something, I do it with passion. This, I can guarantee, is very good for you, because it is impossible to resist my excitement of achievement every time we learn something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I walk all this way with you and I can't help but feel the same way you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your feeling of conquest is my drug, and all my efforts seek to make you feel that you are moving forward, that you are conquering new goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is there a better feeling than that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
let me tell you a story<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like running, it's the sport I do most, partly because it's the easiest, I'm not good at complicated things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But another great benefit is how easy it is to measure progress, and there is always some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All you need is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(just as a weekly class won't be enough if you don't expose yourself to the language every day, read, listen to material in Spanish, study and do exercises).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(there are days when you can't put a sentence together, when you seem to be getting worse instead of better, but that's only because you are learning to express more complex ideas than before and that is more difficult). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(in the same way that language is not just words, you need to understand the context, the body language of other people).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Why do you want to learn Spanish? to travel with confidence? to get to know a culture better? to integrate into the new community where you are going to live? to get promoted in your job? to get a better job?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMAGINE DOING IT ALREADY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When I started running, I did it on my own, <\/p>\n\n\n\n watching some youtube videos, <\/p>\n\n\n\n reading articles, blogs, <\/p>\n\n\n\n following professionals in their networks who gave some pieces of advice... <\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn't know how to start and, seriously, not everyone can just put on their running shoes and go for a run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You will most likely be back home in less than 15 minutes, red, <\/p>\n\n\n\n suffocated <\/p>\n\n\n\n and feeling like puking... <\/p>\n\n\n\n (happened to a friend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n It's a bit the same for language learning, not everyone is okay watching films in Spanish with subtitles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (que si no tiene un guion muy complicado puede valer sobre todo si vas cazando alguna palabra que conoces)<\/p>\n\n\n\n (if it's an action film you're missing the best)<\/p>\n\n\n\n That's why I decided to put myself in the hands of a great professional:<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the first day my mind blew up, <\/p>\n\n\n\n I arrive at the track with all the excitement of the first day and I am told to warm up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So here I go, <\/p>\n\n\n\n to run, <\/p>\n\n\n\n down the track, <\/p>\n\n\n\n my first day, <\/p>\n\n\n\n I, that when I run I have one pace, run<\/p>\n\n\n\n (my other pace is walking)<\/p>\n\n\n\n doy la primera vuelta a la pista (por dentro, por el c\u00e9sped, que no nos hagamos da\u00f1o en las rodillas y as\u00ed hacemos 100 metros menos por vuelta)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n and was already suffocated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My trainer comes to my side and says to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n - Pichi, you're going too fast<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1BOOOOM!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bf\u00bf\u00bfEXCUSE ME???<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n IS THE EUROPEAN CHAMPION TELLING ME I'M GOING FAST?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n IS THIS LADY WHO IS STILL SPAIN'S FASTEST MILE RUNNER TELLING ME I'M GOING TOO FAST??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So yes, it turns out that to warm up you have to run very, very slowly, as slowly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n and once the body is ready <\/p>\n\n\n\n you can do quality training, more demanding<\/p>\n\n\n\n and this has to be combined with different types of training<\/p>\n\n\n\n strength training<\/p>\n\n\n\n speed training<\/p>\n\n\n\n endurance training<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n See where I'm going?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doesn't it look simple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, I hadn't seen it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you understand why you need someone else<\/p>\n\n\n\n (if possible a professional)<\/p>\n\n\n\n who knows to listen to you, who understands what you want<\/p>\n\n\n\n see the mistakes you don't see<\/p>\n\n\n\n see what things you are good at and what things are a bit more challenging for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n and that with all this information, can help YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n who can ask you challenging questions <\/p>\n\n\n\n but that you manage to answer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n who knows how to give you the tools that YOU<\/strong> you need to understand the grammar<\/p>\n\n\n\n and, of course, that can make you have fun and want to go further,<\/p>\n\n\n\n express more complex ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n communicate whatever you want<\/p>\n\n\n\n to keep an interesting conversation going, in which you forget the purpose of the class, because you are so excited about the topic that you don't realise that you are talking in...<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bfespa\u00f1ol?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But just a few months ago I couldn't even speak without translating!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n and even translating I wasn't sure I was saying what I wanted to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n That's what I like most about running<\/p>\n\n\n\n and about teaching Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n that suddenly, one day, you realise that you have achieved something that was impossible for you a short time before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then, of course, a few days later you're back to being the clumsiest person in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is life, it has its ups and downs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We cannot always be at the peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That's why it's so exciting when you succeed<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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