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Beginner Spanish, Advanced Spanish, and Industry Specific Spanish

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Meet Your Instructor

Mark Barnes
Founder and Instructor

 Before I was 20 years old I didn't know any Spanish, I bombed the 1 year of French I took in high school and thought I’d never be able to learn a second language. When I was 20 I took a 2-month crash course in Spanish and went to Mexico for two years where I continued to self-teach and mastered the Spanish language.  Now, I’ve been speaking Spanish since 2002. I’m a member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.  I translated a couple hundred-page book from Spanish to English for a Venezuelan author I met in Miami.  I was an interpreter for a couple of landscape companies in Las Vegas and ran a business of my own in Spanish being that my employees were Spanish speakers.  Over the years I've had countless people ask me if I can teach them to speak Spanish like I speak it.  From these requests comes Spanish Made Simple.  I've taken the concepts of how I learned and mastered Spanish and have simplified them so that those who take my courses will become conversational and fluent in Spanish in a simple step-by-step fashion.

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We're a little biased but here's what students are saying...

 "This course has been wonderful. I purchased it for myself and two kids (10 & 12). We all appreciate the ease of use along with Mark's focus on the importance of pronunciation. This is a great course and we are really enjoying it."

Melissa K. 
Beginner Course

 "I have learned Spanish through Rosetta Stone, but this course definitely gives you the more authentic Spanish that is spoken by natives. I highly recommend this course for anyone who knows Spanish and wants to take their speaking to the next level."

Donta W.
Advanced Course

 "Very clear explanations. I am fluent in Spanish, lived in Central America for 10 years, and it is wonderful to finally get explanations of the things I knew were weird but didn’t know why. Super helpful!

Sara L.
Advanced Course

"I love what you have done to teach Spanish to dental professionals! Well done! Thank you so much:-)"

Terri C.
Dental Spanish for Beginners

 "Very good explanation about basics. One can easliy learn basic Spanish for travel or communication purpose at variety of situations. Gracias!!"

Chaitrajeet D. 
Beginner Course

 "I love the class. It's perfect. It's exactly what I was looking for."

Donta W.
Beginner Course

 "I am at A2 level and I think this course is a great one that helps me really think about what I have learned and gives me a big picture of the language. The worksheets are extremely useful. 

Tom C.
Advanced Course

"Nice learning pace, really clear explanations (I finally understand the logic of some things I knew from before but had no idea why they are formulated a certain way), and also very interesting to note the differences between the Spanish of Spain, and that of the Americas."

Robert M.
Advanced Course

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