About Spanish For The Real World

I’m Shay, an Australian guy and the founder of Spanish For The Real World. I arrived in Medellín, Colombia in June 2017 on my own personal mission to conversational Spanish fluency.

But after I advanced past the beginner’s stage I really struggled to find great resources to study real-life conversational Spanish!

After working closely with some amazing local teachers, I decided to build my own! And that was actually an early version of the Spanish For The Real World we have here today.

For most of us, the goal is to have real-life conversations with real people, in the real world… right?

And we believe that once you advance the beginners stage you need to move as quickly as possible to studying natural real-world conversational Spanish!

The scripted, dumbed-down-for-students stuff, that is used in the majority of language learning programs is great for the beginners and to teach specific grammar points or verb tenses, etc… But it won’t teach you conversational fluency!

The fast track to conversational fluency is to study real-life conversations and even more importantly HAVE as many real-life conversations as you can!

Our vision is to create the best study resources (that don’t really feel like studying) for the Spanish learner that is serious about conversational fluency.

And I feel that we are achieving our vision!

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