Journalist from Bogotá, Colombia with more than 1000 hours of experience teaching Spanish

Karen is an amazing and engaging tutor! I am genuinely excited for our classes whenever we have them. She provides reading material or videos to watch prior to classes that we discuss. She tailors her classes to her students interests and she reviews mistakes at the end of the class, which I really appreciate.

Karen is a wonderful teacher. I really love every lesson. She always makes them fun and very engaging.
It's very easy to talk to her and share my opinions. She is a great listener and always offers me a lot of advice and tips for improvement. Thanks to her, I've made huge progress with my Spanish.

Karen is a wonderful teacher who always comes to class prepared with discussion topics perfectly suited to my interests and my profession — journalism. I would highly recommend Karen to anyone, but especially someone with an interest in current events, geopolitics, etc. I've taken regular lessons with Karen for about six months now and, despite my limited Spanish, our conversations are always engaging. If I had the time, I'd take 10 more lessons with Karen every week.

Karen has helped me improve so much throughout the last year working with her. She is an incredible conversationalist, her classes are always interesting, and i've seen so much progress with my own spanish since beginning working with her. Her classes typically involve a converstion about an article or news story, but often times we just end up yapping about all kinds of things. Her classes always end with going over all the grammar mistakes that I made during the class. I have always found this incredibly helpful.

Highly highly recommended.

Karen is an excellent Spanish tutor for anyone interested in Latin America’s social and environmental issues. Her background in journalism allows her to select fascinating articles, short films, and reports that make each class both thought-provoking and highly engaging. Our discussions have helped me gain confidence in expressing complex ideas in Spanish, while also learning more about the realities of the region. I highly recommend her if you want to improve your Spanish through meaningful and relevant conversations.

I feel like Karen is a great Spanish teacher! She gives students the space to speak, make mistakes, and self-correct before she writes down what is needed to improve. Classes like this are exactly what I look for when studying Spanish. I highly recommend Karen!

Ive been having lessons with Karen for a month now and I’m very pleased and happy with her style of teaching. After having a gap of a few years in my Spanish studies, Karen is helping me to revise important verbs as well as conversation practice. She’s a great teacher.

You should choose this teacher! Karen was great to learn from, she gives clear guidance, help as well as expectations to help progress, thank you Karen

Karen was super helpful with Spanish and it really helped me travel through South America. She is also a very kind and caring person and will always want the best out of you!!!

I've been taking classes with Karen for nearly three years and they are my favourite time of the week! Karen is friendly, thoughtful and creative, and our classes are always fun and interesting! We have danced, sung, written poems, analysed texts, documentaries and articles and so much more! I recommend her classes to everyone looking to improve their Spanish!!!

I've been working on my Spanish with Karen for the past years with weekly lessons. Her lessons are interesting as we discuss current topics based on readings or videos she recommends. I feel being able to practice Spanish discussing a variety of topics has really helped my conversational skills. I strongly recommend Karen as a Spanish teacher!

Hi! I am Fiona. I have taken many Spanish lessons with Karen on another platform. Karen is knowledgable, supportive, and a delight to learn from.

Karen is a grammar whiz and breaks difficult concepts into their essential components, making it easier to understand challenging ideas. I appreciate her patience and expertise immensely!

I feel blessed learning Spanish with Karen (general and medical Spanish). She’s incredibly good at - and dedicated to- what she does. Intending to work as a doctor in Central America, I had an urgent business need. I would never have dreamed that 15 lessons in 3 months would be enough to go from near zero to holding 60 min discussions + medical consultations at a reasonable pace. I very highly recommend her!

Karen is a very patient and devoted teacher, and teaches in a way that is both personable and engaging.

She is able to bring out the best in any student, no matter their language ability, and makes the process so enjoyable. I also really appreciate her willingness to accommodate my lessons even when living in different time zones!

- Ashton

Karen has a great teaching technique that has made it easy for me to learn Spanish, she has great patience and is always reassuring when things are difficult. I highly recommend Karen as a teacher.

Karen is the BEST teacher I've ever had️
She is a very intelligent, patient and easy-going person.
With Karen you will see the progress very fast, but also have a lot of fun during the lessons! I truly recommend Karen for everyone - beginners as well as more advanced learners.

Karen is a great teacher - not only am I able to practice my grammar and sentence structure with her but her lessons are also tailored toward your interest.
She is very patient and listens well. Would highly recommend!

Karen has been my profesor of Spanish for a few months now. Out of all the professors I have had, she has been the most professional, do things like keeping notes, vocabulary, assignments, communicating well. She is really easy to talk to and we have fun conversations in all of our classes.

Since starting lessons with Karen 4 months ago, I've progressed much quicker than expected. Because of her fun and friendly attitude, I feel comfortable speaking in Spanish which has helped my fluency a lot. Furthermore, her method of tracking errors on a google doc spreadsheet during the lesson has been very insightful. Karen is a very thoughtful and dedicated teacher, I would recommend her to anyone!

We’ve been having 2 lessons a week for the last 4-5 months or so, out of all my schooling, she’s easily the best teacher I’ve ever had, very committed to her craft as a teacher and helping me understand the language on a multitude of levels. I’m not fluent, but I know with Karen I will be.

Karen has been my tutor for a year now and our classes are the highlight of my week! We always have really interesting topics each week and I learn so much about Colombian culture. My confidence when speaking Spanish has improved so much. At the end of the class, we go through some of the grammar mistakes I made and it has shown me what I need to work on. I highly recommended Karen for anyone learning Spanish!

Karen is outstanding! I've taken more than 50 classes with her. She is my favorite teacher.

Her knowledge of the Spanish language goes way beyond just an average native speaker. Because of her formal training, she understands the intricacies of the language really well.

I know that if I hear somebody say something that seems a little off, Karen will be able to tell me if it is formal speech, casual everyday speech, or just lousy grammar ;-)

Karen is amazing. She is friendly, flexible and super professional in terms of providing a mix of structured and unstructured classes. I found Karen through a simple Google search. Her style is thoughtful and authentic. I am continuing my lessons with Karen. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Ella es la maestra mejor del mundo!

I've been taking lessons with Karen for about a year now. She's the best. I look forward to our lessons every week. At this point my lessons feel more like catching up with a friend once a week but I get to improve my Spanish at the same time. We mostly do conversation practice completely in Spanish these days, but in the past we've also worked on specific grammar concepts and vocabulary. Whatever you need to work on to improve your Spanish, Karen will adjust your lessons to help you with that. Wether you are a beginner in need of more structured classes or you just want to practice speaking with a friendly and patient person, I highly recommend her.

Karen is a natural teacher who genuinely cares about the progression of her students. She is also extemely organised and goes the extra mile by detailing areas for imrovement via persoanlised student files on google docs. I look forward to my Spanish classes every week and would highly recommend Karen for general Spanish lessons, conversation classes or academic dele preparation.