Pepio Spanish is a Mom and Pop Online Language Academy, run by its owners Carlos and Jacqueline Pepio, both very experienced and up-to-date Teacher Trainers with more than 30 years of combined experience in the Education field with students of all ages, backgrounds and even nationalities.
Our mission is to amaze students with their own learning speed, as we progress together to basic conversation ability in 4 months, and to fully bilingual proficiency in 1.5 years of private online classes of either Spanish or English languages.
Most Spanish courses base themselves on a method that is very old and backward, which in ESL (English as a Second Language) is known as Grammar – Translation Method. We wondered, why is it that in ESL the teacher is obliged to only speak the target language (in this case English), and in Spanish classes they speak very little of the target language (in this case Spanish) and so much English?? Honestly, the only real reason we could imagine is… they don’t know much about language teaching.
The brain goes through the same processes when learning ANY language, no matter if it’s English or Spanish, so why is Spanish (or any other second language) so poorly taught in regards to scientifically proven methodologies, as compared to English? At PepioSpanish.com we teach you Spanish with the same up-to-date language systems as English is taught in regular ESL.
Do you know the difference between a Language Teacher and a Language Trainer?
Well basically put, the Teacher is supposed to teach, which means to pass on to you something you don’t know, to share his/her formal, academic, knowledge with you, hoping you “get it” after a presentation and a few written exercises from a deaf-mute book, that comes from a standardized method. While the Trainer’s job is to make sure that you MASTER what you set yourself to. Nothing less!!
A Trainer’s job is to quickly assess your personal strong and weak points, and based on his/her experience; find the easiest way to strengthen them consistently, to attain their maximum peak of performance in the shortest time possible.
And, do you know the difference between a Teacher and a Tutor?
Well, simply put, a teacher teaches a big group and a Tutor is a personal teacher. At PepioSpanish.com, you won’t have a personal teacher, but a PERSONAL TRAINER!
Differences you’ll find at PepioSpanish.com:
Your teachers will speak 90% of the time in the target language (Spanish if you’re learning Spanish and English if you’re learning English) and will only resort to your native language in special cases when it would be a waste of your time to insist on explaining in the target language. As in the case of explaining abstract concepts.
Your classes will be student-based instead of teacher-based, which means that since the one who needs to practice the target language is you, then your teacher will minimize teacher talk and will compel you to maximize student-talk. That means you practice more!! And remember: “practice makes perfect”.
Your teachers are not only native speakers, but professionally trained, certified and experienced well beyond the 10 year mark, in all language levels and with all age groups as well.
Your teacher is not a low-paid, unmotivated employee, your teacher is the business owner him/herself!! So, if you’ve experienced any difference in customer service when attended by an employee or by the owner, you’ll know what we’re talking about!!
You’re classes will be 100% conversational. In any language you’re learning, books, audios and videos, can only get you to some point. You know… that point in which you understand the video, but when a native speaker talks to you on the street you’re like: “what??” Most inexperienced teachers s-p-e-a-k v-e-r-y- s-l-o-w-l-y thinking that that’s going to help you learn, but real teachers train for real language. The way it is in real life, at natural speed.
You’ll learn the whole language, not just the traditional school syllabus. Since every language has colloquial expressions and different accents depending on region, you’ll learn idioms, slang, and any specific jargon and accents you’re interested in while also learning the more formal, professional side of the language, in either Spanish or English.
Please contact us or add pepio.spanish to your Skype contact list to schedule your FREE 15 minute lesson so you can try our service completely risk free, and we can assess your Spanish/English level. If you don’t have Skype yet, you can click here to go to the Skype website to download it totally free. We also have G-talk, Yahoo and Windows Live messengers for your convenience, but we strongly advise you to download Skype due to its far superior video and audio quality as well as tons of tools specifically designed for teachers.
We sincerely hope you make the decision to learn Spanish (or English) the fast way, the PepioSpanish.com way.
Please enjoy the FREE videos below, or click here to visit PepioSpanish YouTube Channel where you'll find our latest videos. You can also subscribe to our channel to make sure you don't miss any new videos.
See you online soon…
PepioSpanish Methodology:
Principiantes: los números, este y ese (Beginners: the numbers, this & that):
Principiantes: Las 5 vocales del español, the 5 vowels of Spanish (and vowel sounds compared to English).
