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I am pleased to say that Luis Castro was a very effective Spanish teacher. His teaching styles and method were most enjoyable. His flexibility in working small schedule change was most appreciated. His energy and enthusiasm toward teaching Spanish benefited me greatly.

I have had several one-on-one Spanish teachers in my career and Luis is the most energetic and motivated teacher I have ever had. He came to class energized and prepared every day and I attribute my high score on the proficiency exam to his hard work.

Luis Castro really helped me move from beginner Spanish to intermediate Spanish. I feel so much more comfortable with the language now. My speaking has improved, as has my understanding of the grammatical rules. I would highly recommend this Spanish class! It was very valuable to me.

I have taken classes from Luis for one year and feel that he has helped me make a lot of improvement with my Spanish skills. I think that his approach of combining some work in the text book, some work outside the class, informal conversation and audiotapes has been more helpful to me than other methods. Luis has been able to go slow when I have difficulties and faster at other times. I think that Luis’ approach has helped me to build my vocabulary. The Latinos at work say that my pronunciation has improved by working with Luis.

I would like to highly recommend Luis Castro as Spanish instructor. During the time he taught me in individual classes, my Spanish improved significantly. I particularly appreciated that he adapted the texts and lessons to my needs, taking care to choose texts and videos that were interesting for me and fit my language needs. He was also very happy to accommodate changes in class times (which at times was necessary due to my work schedule), and always came to class on time and well prepared. I also still benefit from some instructional materials and websites he made me aware of.

My experience learning Spanish has been fun and rapid, thanks to my instructor, Luis Castro. I began in a group class about 18 months ago and have studied privately with Luis for the past year. Luis demonstrates a lot of patience and encouragement in his teaching style. The lesson topics are very interesting and Luis has customized lessons for me so that I can learn the technical language of real estate, something necessary in my profession. I highly recommend Luis as a very capable and caring instructor.

I spent five weeks of intensive, one-on-one Spanish language instruction with Luis Castro to help dust off my skill set and work towards professional proficiency. Luis is very familiar with the ILR testing scale [0-5] and was able to quickly hone in on areas where I needed improvement and designed a plan to help improve in those areas. He put me through the paces with creative reading, listening, speaking, and grammatical exercises. He has a lot of reading and listening material to draw from including current events, health, science and ethics, economics, foreign policy, education, and sports, among other topics. He was patient, kind, generous, and fostered a learning environment where I felt as though I could make errors and ask questions. I would not hesitate to study with Luis again and would recommend him to anyone looking to acquire, improve, or perfect their Spanish language abilities.