As a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, I spent two and a half years teaching students of all ages how to get and remain interested in learning. My experience working in an elementary and high school taught me that every student is different and there is no better way to engage a student than to be able to study with them one on one. Finding out their learning styles, and mutually developing an effective learning strategy helps both the student and myself succeed in achieving the goals of the student. I have the personal benefit of going from knowing very little Spanish, to becoming fluent, because I spoke Spanish everyday for two years with people who were native speakers. I know the methods it takes to effectively learn Spanish in a way that will make it a second language rather than just memorizing vocabulary and conjugations.

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