A gentle start with Spanish, for people who have wanted to begin for a long time.

Four days of stories, listening, and one live class together. Designed for true beginners, including the ones who have started before and stopped.

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You might be in the right place if...

You have wanted to learn Spanish for a while, and somehow it has never quite gotten started.

Or it has — once, twice, maybe three times — and each attempt eventually got quiet.

Maybe an app, a class, a course. Something in you wanted to keep going. Something else made it feel hard, or heavy, or too much.

If you have ever thought, "I think I am just not a language person," I would gently disagree with you. And I would like to show you why.

This is a soft place to begin. Four days, twenty minutes a day, and one live class together at the end. That is all.

Most beginner classes start in the wrong place...

I took a complete beginner french course recently that left me feeling overwhelmed and confused. Verbs, vocabulary, and sentence prompts that were way above my true beginner level.

Thankfully, as a language teacher, I recognized that it wasn't a true beginner friendly course. Otherwise, I might have told myself I was not built for this. Perhaps you have shared an experience like this, too, in the past.

What I have learned, teaching adult beginners for years, is that you were probably built for this just fine. I watched many students struggle with traditional beginner courses before, and have found and learned a better way for beginners to learn Spanish.

We do not learn our first language from a chart. We listen. We watch. We guess. We hear the same words used in different shapes until one day they make sense.

There is a name for this kind of teaching — comprehensible input — and it is what these four days are built on. Your only job is to listen and follow a story. The Spanish does the work in the background, the way it was meant to.

(photo of my Spanish students at a local immersion retreat)

A walk through the four days

Día 1 — Hay un chico

 

We meet our first character. I tell you a short story in slow, clear Spanish. You sit, you listen, you follow along. By the end of twenty minutes, most people are surprised by how much they understood.

 

Día 2 — Es veterinario

 

We deepen our story as we learn more about our friends: Pedro, Horacio and Susana. The three of them have some very unusual and funny jobs. The story grows a little. Somehow, the second day feels easier than the first. 

Día 3 — Es de Montevideo

 

By now you are catching words and shapes you were not catching on day one. We end with a small game. 

Día 4 — Live, together

 

We meet on Zoom for our live class. We go through one last story together. We play a little. We talk about how the four days went. If you feel ready to say a few words in Spanish, you are welcome to. If you want to listen quietly, you are equally welcome. Both are real ways to be here.

Along the way...

A small assessment after each video, so you can feel what is sinking in and ask me about anything that did not.

A group chat with a daily prompt, and where you can hear what other beginners are working through.

Lifetime access to the recordings, so you can come back to any day at your own pace.

Reserve your spot!

$27

Life time access

✅ Four days of story-based video lessons

✅ A short assessment after each day, with personal feedback from me

✅ The group chat throughout the four days

✅ Our live class together on day four

✅ Lifetime access to the recordings

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If, after the four days, you decide to join the next beginner cohort, your $27 comes with you.

Apply your $27 to the beginner cohort if you decide you want more!

Check out our growing community


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I used to feel so intimidated by Spanish. Years of high school classes left me with nothing but two or three memorized phrases and a lot of self-doubt. But from day one, Elisabeth completely dissolved that anxiety. Walking into her warm virtual space felt less like a rigid lecture and more like a community. Instead of staring at dry vocabulary lists, we learn through stories, images, and actual, living conversations with peers who are in the exact same boat.

Elisabeth has this remarkable patience and a positive energy that changes everything; she speaks at just the right pace, making the whole experience feel like a true partnership. She gives us incredible tools and resources, and her encouragement genuinely inspires me to do the heavy lifting outside of class so I can show up ready to engage. For the first time, I don’t just feel like I'm studying a language—I feel a real, tangible hope that I am going to build the confidence to truly converse.


-Sunny J


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I've been taking Spanish class with Eli for just over a year. I had *some* comfort with Spanish when I met her last fall, she did a quick zoom call with me to understand the skill level and place me in my correct level conversational class. Since then I have become much for comfortable speaking, especially with using the past tense. Eli focuses on getting our ideas across, working with us to have the comfort to speak with someone in Spanish without being so worried about grammar. This is extremely important to me because I'm someone who gets flustered and will default to English if I don't have the correct grammar usage. She has helped build my confidence to speak and has improved my grammar skills as well! As an added bonus I also just love the company of my classmates, we've been in classes together for a year and I consider them friends!

I can't believe how well something I found on instagram worked out for me. If learning to be conversational in Spanish is on your to-do list, this is a wonderful and convenient way to start.


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I've been learning with Elisabeth ("Eli") for nine months, now, and she's absolutely incredible! She has developed such a great system for learners. She is kind, patient, consistent, attentive, thorough, intuitive, and reliable! I've had other teachers that I really liked, but Eli's classes produce so MUCH learning and growth in a shorter period of time. She's fantastic and I highly recommend her!

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If this feels like the right kind of beginning…

I would love to have you. We begin June 26th. The four days are gentle, and there is room for you to be exactly where you are.

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