Lisa Martin
2024-11-06
Well-designed program with excellent teachers!
David Haas
2024-09-16
The course was very useful and enjoyable for me. The small number of students in the class gave me lots of opportunity to extend my fluency and my command of the grammar. I recommend the course and the instructor highly for any advanced student.
David Haas
2024-08-28
The course was exactly what I was looking for when I enrolled. I needed an opportunity to speak Spanish regularly in conversations that were complex enough to require me to use my advanced command of Spanish grammar and vocabulary. The course gave me that opportunity.
Jiea Rutland-Simpson
2024-03-18
Rolando is a gifted teacher. He a great conversationalist and a fantastic listener. Rolando makes his students feel comfortable expressing themselves. It would be easy for him to let grammer mistakes slide, however, he takes the time to correct them. In addition, he explains why one word maybe a better option than another (for example tratar (to try) vs. probar (to test or try) or why a phrase should be said in a particular order. This habit is extremely beneficial to the student who is practicing their Spanish and the students who are listening to the conversation.
I look forward to my conversation classes with Rolando. Learning Spanish with Rolando is an exciting adventure!
Michael Cestare
2024-03-18
This is a great course. As always with Berges, the instructor (Rolando) was top notch. He's curious, empathetic, and patient, and is very knowledgeable.
The only downside to this course is that at times there are individuals who are clearly not at the advanced level. I understand they need to be exposed to those with more advanced Spanish to improve but I think Berges could do a better job vetting participants and maybe steering them to some private lessons before enrollment in an advanced course.
Meredith Nemirov
2024-02-21
Estoy disfrutando este clase muchisimo. Los otros estudiantes son muy interesantes y inteligentes y por eso estamos, en además de conversaciónes de nuestros vidas y qué sucedió durante la semana pasada,
estamos leyendo cuentos cortos de varios escritores. También escuchamos canciones y discutir las letras. Esto hace la clase muy cultural y muy divertido. Gracias Nicolás!
Nik Ritchie
2024-01-31
This is a super fun course for practicing real conversation. Every class session is different.
Barbara DeLaney-Smith
2024-01-17
The advanced classes are not only instructive, but the subjects under discussion are always very interesting, meaningful, and sometimes just plain fun. I look forward to each class and highly recommend these classes, and Berges Institute in general, as a way to learn and improve your Spanish while having an enjoyable experience. Five stars!
Steven Alonso
2024-01-17
Nicolas does a great job keeping the conversation interesting and at an appropriate level.
The class has a good pace. We always have differing levels of proficiency and Nicolas is very good at keeping the learning and the interaction strong.
Meredith Nemirov
2023-10-31
I have enjoyed this class so much because of the enthusiasm of the teacher, Nicolás, and the interesting students. I appreciate the cultural aspect discussing music, literature, current events, movies, etc. all in Spanish! I would sign up for any class that Nicolás is teaching.
Steven Alonso
2023-06-06
This course is very helpful for me to practice my Spanish in conversations and review my vocabulary.
Nicolas is very good at keeping the conversation going and creating interesting topics. There are many different accents which challenges me as a non-native speaker. I would give this class 4.5 stars.
Meredith Nemirov
2023-03-28
I loved this conversation class! We were a small group, first three then four, very diverse in age and background. We spoke about a wide range of topics, the climate crisis and the environment was one that we all shared and led to alot of lively conversations and introduction of new vocabulary words.
We were given a great variety of homework assignments like listening and reading the lyrics of a popular salsa song, watching and discussing a movie in Spanish and listening to a blog that led to some great conversations. The instructor asked us to share our screen to show a text that we had written for homework, and we read it together and he corrected our mistakes, mostly having to do with preposition usage.
I would definitely sign up again and recommend this class to other advanced conversation students.
Jennifer Cole
2023-01-27
This course was great! I think my Spanish has gotten a lot better already and I've gained more confidence speaking, and I am continuing taking classes with Nicolas.
Rosemary Spano
2022-08-30
Good way to continue to improve Spanish. I don't think there is much difference between the intermediate level and advanced level actually for continuing students.
Andrea De Benedittis
2021-10-18
una de las mejores clases que atendi'
Barbara Berwitz
2021-09-14
Very worthwhile. Always good conversations about interesting topics. Very helpful in improving my Spanish.
Andreina Centlivre
2021-09-06
conversation classes with Alejandro are great! they are casual and help you think on your toes in spanish.
Corby Herschman
2021-08-03
Great way to keep practicing Spanish.
Gabrielle Flowerman
2021-07-26
Advanced conversation is an enjoyable class and a worthwhile learning experience. I absolutely recommend trying it.
Kristen Misak
2021-05-05
I have taken many classes with Berges over the years, but this was my first class with Rolando, and at this point I am convinced that all of the teachers at Berges are stellar. Rolando perfectly balanced the class to make sure that we were constantly learning new words and phrases and correcting our conjugations with good conversation flow and friendly atmosphere. I really enjoyed the class and look forward to more with Rolando!