Spañol4u

Liliana is a fantastic «maestra» — She tailors each lesson to the individual. I am studying Spanish to enhance my professional career and Liliana focuses on the specific vocabulary that I need to focus on. I am lucky to have found Liliana. She makes studying Spanish really enjoyable.

I have so much respect and admiration for Liliana. As a former classroom teacher, I am deeply impressed by her approach to teaching. She is patient, kind, consistent, dependable, organized, and effective. My capacity to converse and write in Spanish increases exponentially after each session with Liliana. I find her rate to be well worth the long-​term investment I’m making in my language growth.

Updating my review… I feel so lucky to have found Liliana. I’ve been taking classes with her for about a year and a half and continue to look forward to our classes. I went from not knowing any Spanish to being able to have decent conversations. I highly recommend Liliana for anyone serious about learning Spanish!

It has been an amazing experience to learn from Liliana. I wanted to brush up on my Spanish and become more advanced. At any level she will get you reading, writing and have full conversations in Spanish. She very easy going, cool latina and fun to chat with. Her process in getting you to learn makes sense and you will see progress. She customizes books specifically for you to reference from so it’s great to review. She is very knowledgable flexible, organized and I love that fact she is from Peru and I can learn more about South American culture. You can text her at any time and super easy to set up a time any day of the week. Now I can travel to any Spanish country and have the joy of speaking even with my family in Buenos Aires. I now speak Spanish to my son all thanks to Liliana. Life changing. Highly recommended.

I had to attend my very good friend’s wedding in Barcelona, Spain in about 5 weeks. Knowing that everyone there will be mostly Spaniards (on her fiancé’s side), I had to at least be prepare for the very basics. So, Liliana worked with me relentlessly over those weeks to get me proficient. She worked around my schedule and was extremely patient and supportive even when I was getting frustrated. She knew and tracked every progress and built each lesson on top of my progress, so it was tailor-​made for me.
Liliana made sure what I had learnt was relevant and useful for my trip. It was a bootcamp/​immersion, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I believe Liliana is a very good teacher. However, she recently went back to school and no longer seems terribly interested in teaching Spanish. I have been taking lessons from her for about 2 ½ years. At first she was quite reliable, then she began cancelling or changing class times and dates, usually with the required 24-​hour notice, but once with just about 2 hours notice. This was more or less okay with me because I am retired and have a lot of flexibility in my schedule. Then we had a misunderstanding about the time of a class that she had rescheduled, but Liliana would not admit that possibility and insisted that I had missed the class and must pay for it. Since I had never missed a class in 2 ½ years, this seemed wrong. This is too bad. I would give her 5 stars if it were not for her attitude.

Learning Spanish with Liliana was a wonderful experience! As a nurse, I work different days every week and college class times were inflexible. With Liliana, I had the freedom to tailor lesson dates to my work schedule. We met in a café and sipped coffee while conversing in Spanish on a variety of practical subjects, from describing our favorite countries visited to explaining a procedure to patients in the hospital. Conversation is the hardest part of learning a language and is impossible with apps and independent study. It is also hard to do in a classroom with dozens of other students trying to learn at their own pace. I truly profited from the personalized teaching plan and continuous flow of conversation that Liliana provided.
Liliana challenged and encouraged me along the way. With her expertise in Spanish writing and speaking, you don’t need a textbook! Only a Spanish dictionary to assist with homework. I received lesson plans specific to my needs in communicating with patients in the hospital setting. I had different notebooks for grammar and verbs, vocabulary and exercises in Spanish. I could build much of my vocabulary on a need-​to-​know basis and Liliana helped me with my sentence structure and accent. I can now get to know my Spanish speaking-​only patients and help them feel more comfortable as they receive care!

I started taking lessons from Liliana a couple of months before a planned trip to Peru. I had zero prior knowledge of Spanish, and she helped me get up to speed on the basics and I was able to get by on my own during my trip. I have continued taking lessons since returning from my trip and I’d highly recommend Liliana.
Her lessons are fun, well-​organized, and very conversation-​centric, so you are always practicing. The lessons are also one-​on-​one and tailored to you, so regardless of your level, you are in good hands.

Liliana is a great teacher and she is fun too. Her lessons blend a lot of conversation, reading articles /​books, grammar and homework to make sure your skills ramp up fast … while having fun in the process. Her approach to grammar makes it much easier to learn that any other method I’ve seen before when I studied Spanish in school years ago. I highly recommend Lilliana for anyone who wants to learn or improve their Spanish skills.

I have been studying Spanish with Liliana for almost two years now. That should say something right there. And in two years, I have gone from not speaking Spanish to speaking it well, and with a solid knowledge of advanced grammar (anyone heard of the pluperfect subjunctive tense? I have, and I know how to use it in Spanish! And, I am almost finished reading my second book.) The format for my one-​on-​one sessions is perfect, with focus on conversation, grammar, listening and comprehension– and fun! If you are really serious about learning (and having a great time while doing it), I highly suggest you study with Liliana. One of her many wonderful qualities is being able to correct you (grammar, gender, etc) while motivating you simultaneously. Another important factor is that her Spanish is very «clean». No, not the swearing kind of clean, but with a clean accent– although you will learn the forms used in Spain (vosotros) as well as Latin America.
I hope this review helps you choose Liliana as your tutor. You will be glad you did.

I am a beginner with the Spanish Language, and Liliana is a great teacher to learn from.
Her relaxed style of teaching, and having your class at a coffee shop is a very natural and comfortable environment in which to learn. She gives you homework and new words you are expected to know at each new class. Make sure you have enough free time to seriously study and rest to be alert and ready for the next class .
I looked forward in meeting with her. Each time, it was like visiting with a good friend. The only time it wasn’t so fun, is when I was tired and hadn’t put enough time into my lessons. It really is necessary to set time aside for homework in order to keep going forward.
Liliana gave me a strong foundation to build my Spanish vocabulary. I was so excited that I was understanding and able to speak basic words and construct (write) sentences in Spanish in a relatively short time.
I still have quite alot to learn, but without Liliana’s instruction, which made it interesting, I don’t think I would have grasped it as well as I did.
If you want to LEARN Spanish, this is the instructor for you.

Liliana is an amazing teacher, and I have worked with other private instructors before. I am so glad I found her! She is committed in giving you the best, meaning she will customize her materials according to each student. And she has a personal file on each student to prove it. The file includes everything you’ve learned (verbs, vocab, grammar, etc.) I work hard because I know she puts in a lot of thoughts into her teaching. It’s extremely effective. I went from not speaking Spanish to being able to speak, although still not well, but at least being understood. I highly recommend her.

Don’t believe completely those ads for Rosetta Stone mentioning that you don’t have to learn grammar or vocabulary. That’s not true. While those things may not be all that interesting to do compared with just listening and speaking, they are important. For example, I correspond with another person who is American and can speak Spanish. She helps me practice. She said she can’t write or spell in Spanish anywhere nearly as well as I can. Liliana deserves all the credit for that, because she really makes sure you learn those things, all the way down to correct placement of accent marks and the like.

Liliana is an amazing instructor! She is non judgemental, fun, engaging and ORGANIZED. She divides the time between conversation/​grammar/​vocabulary. There are no memorization drills like in high school. All of the exercises we worked on were derived from conversations or experiences that we personally had. This made learning easier for me because was applicable to real-​life experiences or interests.
I was able to study with her for 3 – 4 months before my graduate school/​work schedule became too demanding. In those 3 months, I gained confidence and increased my ability to interact with my patients. I hope to begin studying with her again.
Liliana is highly recommended!

I recently returned from a trip to Argentina and while I was there realized my high school Spanish just doesn’t cut it anymore. .. years later. I had been considering jump starting my skills, but it wasn’t until this trip that I finally began my research. Somehow I was lucky enough to stumble upon Liliana (Craigslist) and thought one class was worth a shot. Thirteen classes later and I couldn’t be more delighted with my luck finding her. I’ve committed every week, but the best commitment I get is hers. She’s very organized, provides simple homework exercises, reviews my assignments thoroughly, and generally hold herself and me accountable to the objective — to become highly competent speaking Spanish. And it’s working. Even though I have more room to grow, I’m speaking with much more confidence and am genuinely enjoying the process. She’s an able instructor, but also just charming and very nice.

:ike the first reviewer, I’m studying Spanish for personal enrichment and to enrich my life as a resident of a multilingual city. I’m taking a semi-​private lesson, and we all work hard but have fun learning ‘our’ Spanish. Liliana definitely has an effective method (no notes during class so that you focus on oral communication, lessons in a café so that you’re in a ‘natural’ environment, no pat ‘Spanish 101′-style dialogs, etc) but she also lets our needs and conversations determine our progress and the vocabulary that we build. I always look forward to our lessons and feel that she’s prepared and present for them. In short, I wholeheartedly recommend these classes.

Liliana is a wonderful Spanish teacher! She makes lessons fun and interesting, but she is also very well organized and has an individual plan for each student, which, for me, has included grammar worksheets, and reading and writing assignments. Over the several years I have studied with Liliana, my Spanish has improved and I have also gained more confidence in my facility with the language. I would highly recommend SPANOL4u to anyone looking for Spanish classes.

I’ve had the pleasure of taking classes for the past three months in preparation for a position in Panama with the Peace Corps. My goal was to dust off the cobwebs since high school so that I would be conversational by the time I arrived in Panama. It was a tall order, but through Liliana’s structured plan and meticulous notes, I got to where I wanted to be.
Liliana is a kind person who makes you feel at ease during the class. Learning another language can be awkward and frustrating as you search for words and stumble through poor grammar. I always felt comfortable during our classes and it allowed me to push myself further.
The class has homework, including vocabulary, grammar, and worksheets. I always felt I had enough structure through the homework, such that I was able to sit down and practice outside of class.
Overall, I think Liliana is a wonderful resource for anyone wanting to learn Spanish. I would highly recommend her as a teacher.