You're a silent observer in your own meetings
Important decisions get made in the corridor, in Spanish, by people who default to it when you're not in the room. Your influence stays smaller than your role.
Spanish classes for expats · Lima
Spanish classes that fit the life you actually live in Lima.
Private lessons at your home or office anywhere in Lima, or online from wherever you are. Practical Spanish for work, daily life, and the relationships that make Lima feel like home.
Miraflores · San Isidro · Barranco · Surco · San Borja · Magdalena · Pueblo Libre · Jesús María · San Miguel
What's at stake
Living in Lima without Spanish is exhausting.
You can survive on English-speaking colleagues, taxi apps and pointing. You won't enjoy it for long — and you'll keep paying the foreigner tax on everything from groceries to repairs.
Markets, taxis, healthcare, paperwork
Every basic transaction takes twice the time and three times the energy. A morning at the bank or a clinic visit becomes the whole day.
Limeño friendships stay at the surface
The warmth, humor and depth of Peruvian friendships happens in Spanish. Without it, you stay in the expat bubble — and miss what you came here for.
You quietly overpay for nearly everything
Rent, repairs, contractors, services. Without the language to ask the second question, you get the gringo price by default.
What we focus on
Spanish for the life you're actually living.
Lessons are built around your real week — your colleagues, your neighborhood, your doctor's appointment on Thursday — not a textbook's idea of "everyday Spanish."
01
Work Spanish — your version
Meetings, presentations, contracts, email. We build the vocabulary your specific role demands, not a generic "business Spanish" template.
02
Settling in
Renting, hiring help, dealing with utilities, banking, immigration paperwork. The Spanish that turns three-day errands into one-hour errands.
03
Building local relationships
How to make small talk that doesn't stay small. The cultural rhythms of Limeño friendship, family, and dinner-table conversation.
04
Navigating Lima
Markets, taxis, restaurants, healthcare. The everyday Spanish that gets you the local price, the right specialist, and the better ceviche.
05
Culture & context
Latin American Spanish has its own music, rhythms and character. We work with music, series, literature, podcasts, news and film so the language sounds like a place — not a textbook.
The teacher embassies and NGOs call first.
For 25 years, I've taught the people who arrive in Lima for a posting, a project, or a chapter of their lives — and need to land on their feet quickly. Diplomats, doctors, researchers, executives, families.
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Three steps to start this week.
Most expats go from first message to first lesson in under seven days.
Reach out
Send a WhatsApp message or take the free level test. Tell me what your life in Lima looks like and what you want Spanish to unlock.
Get a plan
I write a personalized plan — work Spanish, daily life, DELE, or all three — built around your week and your district.
Start learning
We meet at your home, office or online. Adjust the schedule when work, travel or life changes — we keep moving forward.
Pricing
Same rates online or in person.
Travel to your home or office in Lima is included. Most expats settle into a 10-lesson pack and renew.
1-to-1 lessons
- 1 hour$30
- 1.5 hours$40
Online or in person in Lima. All materials included.
Lesson packs
- 10 lessons · 1 h$285
- 10 lessons · 1.5 h$385
- 15 lessons · 1 h$435
- 15 lessons · 1.5 h$585
A lower rate per lesson. Use them at your own rhythm.
Speak more, faster
- 1 h · 1-to-1$25
- 1 h · 2 people$40
- 1.5 h · 3–4 people$70
Per session, not per person. Couples, colleagues, housemates. Recommended level B1+.
Full pricing on the main page.
Expat FAQ
Real questions from expats in Lima.
If yours isn't here, send it on WhatsApp.
Which districts of Lima do you teach in?
I regularly teach in Miraflores, San Isidro, Barranco, Surco, San Borja, Magdalena, Pueblo Libre, Jesús María, San Miguel — and others. Travel is included in the lesson price.
Can I mix online and in-person lessons?
Yes, and most expats do. Travel weeks, busy work weeks or evening lessons often work better online. In-person sessions are great for sustained focus and conversation practice.
I don't speak a word of Spanish yet — is that fine?
Completely. About a third of my expat students start from zero. The first lesson is a friendly diagnostic in English and Spanish, and we build from there.
I'm already intermediate — can you push me further?
Yes. Most students who plateau got there by self-study or group classes. We rebuild the foundations that need it, then push specifically on the registers and topics where you want to sound sharper.
Can we work around my job schedule?
Yes. Mornings, lunch hours, evenings and weekends are all fair game. Cadence and rhythm are set together — whatever fits how you actually study and how your week looks.
Do you teach families and kids too?
My focus is adults — but I do occasionally take on teenagers, partners and family pairings. Mention what you're looking for and we'll figure it out.
Speak the Spanish your life here actually needs.
Send a WhatsApp message with your district and your work, and we'll plan a first lesson within the week.