Learn Spanish Online | Skype Spanish Lessons | Online Tutors

Whether you want to improve your Spanish speaking skills before joining a Spanish immersion course in Latin America, brush up the Spanish that you learned during your last Spanish learning vacation, or you just don't have the time right now for a Spanish Course in Central or South America, you can still benefit from Online Spanish Lessons via Skype from the comfort and convenience of your office or home in the United States, Canada, Europe, Panama City or anywhere in the world.

Habla Ya Spanish Schools are amongst the top rated Spanish schools in Latin America, and we offer you top notch online Spanish lessons.

• One to One Spanish Lessons via Skype (and Google Hangouts)
• Experienced, certified and fully trained native Spanish teachers who hold language related university degrees backed up by years of experience teaching Spanish as a foreign language at Habla Ya Spanish Schools in Panama City, Bocas del Toro and Boquete
• Precise assessment of your current Spanish level through our Online Placement Test and an Oral Interview over Skype
• 55 minute online Spanish tutoring sessions
• Access to the AVE ("Aula Virtual de Español"), a state of the art Online Spanish Learning Platform created and used by the Cervantes Institute and leading Spanish schools and universities worldwide
• Planned and customized One to One Online Spanish Lessons to suit your own individual needs
• Clearly outlined Spanish levels
• A proven and effective teaching methodology with a communicative approach (our main objective is to get you speaking and improving your Spanish speaking skills asap)
• The best value for your money, with costs starting at only $15 USD per hour
• All of the above in the comfort, convenience and privacy of your own home, office or wherever you're in the world

• Prior to the lesson, you'll receive instructions via email from your Spanish tutor about which activities you should complete through the AVE, our online Spanish learning platform
• At the lesson's start time, you and your Spanish teacher will establish a video-conference session either through Skype or Google Hangouts
• Your Online Spanish Lesson will take place
• At the end of each Skype Spanish Lesson, you'll be given specific homework assignments to be completed through the online Spanish platform

The AVE, the Cervantes Institute's Spanish Virtual Classroom, is an Internet-based educational platform designed to provide Online Spanish Courses.

The AVE is the perfect complement for your Online Spanish Lessons. For each hour of online Spanish tutoring you'll have in average 30 - 60 minutes of study time through the online learning platform (depends on each student), and in this way you'll be able to practice and internalize the material covered in each Online Spanish Lesson (and review it whenever you want to).

To get a better idea or "feel" of the AVE, please view this video about the AVE Online Spanish Learning Platform.

The AVE is divided into 5 levels (the last level, C2, of the Cervantes Institute's standard curriculum is not provided through Online Spanish Courses):

• A1 - Elementary Level, 60 hours
• A2 - Beginner Level, 60 hours
• B1 - Intermediate Level, 120 hours
• B2 - Advanced Level, 120 hours
• C1 - Proficient Level, 120 hours

Special Online Courses and material to prepare for the DELE Spanish exam up to the B2 level (including DELE Inicial and DELE Intermedio) are also available. These courses provide practice for all papers, including models of written texts and compositions, videos of interviews of the oral section and useful tips for the exam.

• Exercises: each lesson includes at least three communicative exercises to be done with your tutor, as well as an End of Lesson Task, in which you'll put all the course content that you have learned to use into practice.
• Graphic Adventure: lessons end with an episode of an ongoing interactive graphic story in which students develop their communication skills in play form.
• Supplementary Materials: online courses include a series of supplementary materials that allow students to consult and practise specific linguistic items: grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, spelling...
• Cultural Content: one of the main aims of the AVE courses is to educate students about the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. By incorporating materials from different sociocultural sources, such as the press, literature, cinema, music and others, the courses provide a realistic reflection of Hispanic culture and society in all their rich variety.
• Tests: each Online Spanish Lesson has three automatic tests that assess performance on material already covered, and four exercises corrected by your Online Spanish Tutor.

Spanish teachers are the single most important element to consider when selecting with who to have your Skype Spanish Lessons. All of our Online Spanish teachers:

• have university degrees related to languages
• have years of classroom experience teaching Spanish as a foreign language (several of them in other schools previous to ours)
• are native Latin Americans and Spanish is their first language
• have undergone Habla Ya's signature training course for Spanish teachers
• have been certified by the Instituto Cervantes for online Spanish teaching
• view teaching as their vocation and are immensely passionate about teaching Spanish as a foreign language

With the quality of Habla Ya Spanish teachers you can't go wrong. You'll learn to speak Spanish and you'll learn fast. Click here to get to know the friendly faces of Habla Ya's Spanish teachers.

Skype Spanish Lessons can be scheduled to take plaace from Monday to Friday as long as we have teachers available. You can sign up to have from 4 to 20 hours of Online Spanish Lessons per week (we don't recommend and thus don't accept students who sign up for lesson than 4 hours per week).

When learning or trying to improve your language skills, it is recommended to at least devote 10 hours of language learning per week. That is the minimum, but if you really want to improve quickly you should try to consistently invest 20 hours per week.

The above recommended hours include both online Spanish class time and homework/practice time on your own through the AVE, our online Spanish learning platform.

In other words, you should plan to have at least from 4 to 20 hours of Online Spanish Lessons per week.

At Habla Ya we offer 2 hour online Spanish sessions (but you can choose to have several per day) during the following schedules (local time in Panama is UTC/GMT -5 hours, or EST without daylight saving time):

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In order to reschedule an Online Spanish Lesson a 48 hour notice is required. During January, February, March, June, July and August, our schools are usually very busy so we encourage you to sign up in advance. During these months online lessons could be put on hold for several weeks as preference is given to onsite students.

In order to setup your Online Spanish Lessons you need to:

• Sign Up & Register
• Take your Online Placement Test (write down your Spanish level and send it to us by email)
• Make Payment with Credit Card via a secure encrypted link that we will provide you
• Schedule a 20 minute online session to test connection quality and interview you to verify your Spanish level

We provide our Online Spanish Lessons through:

• Google Hangouts or
• Skype

If you would like to get the most out of your Online Spanish Lessons we recommend Google Hangouts, which has the same webcam, chat and video capabilities as Skype but will also allow us to easily share documents from our own database through Google Drive.

Google docs will allow us to both see and work on the same document in real time: any changes that you make to it, we'll also see them as they happen and viceversa. This provides us with a true interactive experience... just like being in a real classroom.

1. Open a Google Mail account if you don't already have one. If you don't please go to: https://mail.google.com/mail/
2. Installl the Video Chat plugin: http://www.google.com/chat/video
3. Add your teacher to your chat (we will give you his/her username once you have Signed Up & Registered)

Besides having Skype or Google Hangouts in your computer, you'll also need to have a working headset (ear headphones and a microphone). You can purchase one from any computer store or purchase it online through amazon or ebay.

We still offer the option to have your Online lessons over Skype as some users already have it installed on their computers and are more familiar with the program.

You can have from a minimum of 4 and up to 20 hours of Online Spanish Tutoring per week.

Rates for Online Spanish Lessons go from $15 to $25 per hour and include access to the AVE, the online Spanish learning platform of the Instituto Cervantes, the global authority for teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

The more hours purchased, the lower the rate per hour.

Online Spanish classes are offered in multiples of 30 hour blocks as access to the AVE, the "Aula Virtual de Español" or Spanish Virtual Classroom is granted for 30, 60, 90 and 120 hour Online Spanish Courses.

Former Habla Ya students, who have coursed at least 60 hours of Spanish lessons at our Spanish Schools in Panama have access to a 15% discount off the below rates.

Spanish students who intend to study at Habla Ya in the future, may also have access to the 15% discount as long as they book and pay for their Spanish course in Panama in advance.

Prices are in US Dollars. If for any reason, during the first week of Online Spanish Lessons, you're not satisfied, we will refund the remaining amount of your program (minus $100 which is the cost of the AVE platform which you can continue to use), no questions asked. After the second week, no refunds are given but credits can be saved for up to a year to use later on (but cannot be transferred).