Strengthen partnerships and relationships
Build trust through clearer communication with organizations, communities, researchers, and stakeholders connected to your work.
Spanish coaching for professionals
Communicate confidently with Latin America.
Personalized Spanish coaching for professionals working with partners, organizations, and communities across Latin America.
Language builds trust.
Strong relationships shape the impact you create.
Whether you're collaborating with local partners, government agencies, researchers, or community leaders, the way you communicate shapes the trust you build, the conversations you have, and the impact you create.
What we help you do
What you'll achieve
Communicate confidently in the situations that matter
Connect with local communities
Engage in more meaningful conversations through culturally aware and respectful communication with the people behind your projects.
Navigate field visits with confidence
Feel prepared for site visits, workshops, and project activities where communication goes beyond the office.
Present your work with confidence
Prepare presentations, answer questions, and communicate your ideas clearly in Spanish during conferences and professional events.
Handle everyday communication naturally
Manage emails, WhatsApp messages, informal conversations, and daily interactions with greater ease.
How we help
Personalized Programs
A learning journey built around your goals, your projects, and the professional contexts where Spanish matters most.
01
Weekly one-on-one coaching
A steady rhythm of personalized sessions, shaped around your level, your pace, and the time you actually have.
02
Conversation practice
Speak from the first session. We work on the conversations you'll really have: meetings, calls, workshops, and informal exchanges.
03
Meeting & travel preparation
Get ready for the moments that carry weight: a presentation, a negotiation, a field visit, a trip, a first conversation with a new partner.
04
Sector vocabulary & cultural context
The language of your field and of the countries you work with, so you sound prepared, respectful, and clear.
Built around your next milestone
Learning Spanish takes time. We don't start with your level. We start with the next moment where Spanish matters.
Industry conference in Colombia
45 days
We'll focus on presentations, networking, Q&A sessions, travel conversations, and the vocabulary you'll actually use.
First team meeting in Chile
30 days
We'll prepare the conversations, expressions, and confidence you need to participate naturally with your colleagues.
Annual field visit
6 weeks
Practice community conversations, technical vocabulary, cultural context, and everyday interactions before you arrive.
Every program begins with a discovery conversation. From there we shape the format, frequency, and content around your level, your timeline, and the situations you actually need to handle. And more — whatever your work asks of you in Spanish.
Why ESPANIOL
Designed around your work.
Every learner begins with a discovery conversation. Together, we understand your goals, your professional context, the countries you work with, and the situations where Spanish matters most. From there, we design a personalized learning journey that evolves with your progress.
A personalized learning journey
Your coaching is built around your level, goals, timeline, and professional reality—not a fixed curriculum.
Real conversations, real situations
Practice the conversations you'll actually have: meetings, field visits, presentations, workshops, community engagement, and everyday collaboration.
A Latin America perspective
Language and culture go hand in hand. Learn Spanish with insights into the communication styles, cultural contexts, and realities of the countries where you work.
Focused on your impact
Whether you're building partnerships, collaborating with local organizations, or preparing for an important meeting, every session is designed to help you communicate with greater confidence where it matters most.
Every learning journey begins with understanding your world.
About us
The People Behind ESPANIOL
United by a belief that language creates stronger relationships, better partnerships, and greater impact.
Gonzalo Filomeno
Co-founder
After several years working with international teams and organizations, I saw how important language is for building relationships, sharing ideas, and working across cultures.
That experience led to ESPANIOL: a way to bring language learning closer to people's real lives and professional needs. Together with Cristina, we combine her experience teaching Spanish with a personalized approach that connects each learner's goals with the way they actually use the language.
I believe learning a language is about more than grammar or vocabulary. It's about feeling comfortable, connecting with people, and opening new possibilities.
Cristina Vargas Ramírez
Spanish Coach & Co-founder
Cristina specializes in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Since 2019, she has worked with adult learners from different countries, helping them build confidence through practical, personalized lessons.
Her background includes Spanish Philology, Translation, and years of experience teaching Spanish to international students. At ESPANIOL, she designs and leads every learning journey, adapting each session to the learner's goals and professional context.
Testimonials
What our community says
Three references so far. We’d rather show you real ones than pad the page.
“I've studied with Cristina since spring 2021, two or three classes a week around my schedule. She arrives at every lesson prepared, meeting me where I am, and tailors lessons and homework to real-world contexts and to my level. That has improved my reading, listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary — and my confidence. I can't recommend her highly enough.”
Kari Croft (she/her)
M.Ed, Harvard 2015 · MPP, USC Sol Price 2023
“Gonzalo has contributed to Climate Product Leaders as an ambassador and through Spanish translations, helping make our content accessible to a wider audience. I see ESPANIOL as a natural extension of that work.”
François Burra
Co-Founder of Climate Product Leaders · Consultant en Numérique et IA Soutenable
“We co-founded Cambio Global with Gonzalo, a Spanish-language series on regeneration with practitioners across Latin America. We built it on the belief that people share their best ideas in the language they live in. ESPANIOL applies that same belief to professionals who want to connect with Latin American partners in Spanish.”
Aline Kubiak
Founder of CohereOps · Regenerative Operations & Systems Design
Adi Benea
Creator Educator @ indigaia · Climate Action Educator @ Terra.do
Featured by Idealist
Gonzalo’s story and the work behind ESPANIOL
While shaping the vision behind ESPANIOL, Gonzalo also led Carreras en Clima, a project connecting professionals with climate opportunities across Latin America.
In that work, one challenge kept appearing: many of the most meaningful roles required communicating in Spanish with local teams, partners, communities, and governments. Those conversations reinforced the need for language coaching built around real professional situations—not just grammar.
Idealist featured Gonzalo’s story and the work behind that journey.
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