Spanish for Law Enforcement
Our grammar-based method gives you the language foundation needed for basic interactions, community policing, and building trust.
How Berges Institute Helps Law Enforcement:
- Build conversational Spanish through our grammar-based Graf Method
- Learn from native Spanish-speaking instructors in small classes
- Gain confidence communicating with Spanish-speaking residents
- Flexible online classes that work with shift schedules
- Foundation for learning law enforcement terminology
- Practice speaking Spanish from day one
Frequently asked questions
We teach conversational Spanish, not specialized law enforcement vocabulary. However, conversational fluency is the foundation for all professional Spanish use. Many officers find that once they're conversational, they can learn specific commands, procedures, and legal terms through department training or on-the-job experience.
Many students can handle basic conversations within 10-15 months of consistent study. This allows you to greet residents, ask simple questions, and understand basic responses - specialized law enforcement communication builds on this foundation.
Yes, if multiple officers are at similar Spanish levels, we can arrange group classes. Learning together can help build shared vocabulary and create a more bilingual-ready department.
Yes, our online classes are offered at various times throughout the day and week, making it easier to fit Spanish learning around rotating shifts and irregular schedules.
Reviews from our students
James Oner
5.0
2020-04-28
Our teacher was great. I’ve taken a couple of beginners classes else where but never rally been able to catch on. She is patient and has a way of explaining things that make them easy to understand and relate to English. I wish I could have finished my course before the Covid-19 outbreak.
Anonymous
3.0
2020-04-24
Although I learned a lot there was not enough actual speaking of Spanish. Half of the class was spent going over homework. I would propose that homework be submitted and the teach should review it where he would get an idea of what the students could use help on but there isn't a need to go over each answer.
Emily
5.0
2020-05-02
Course was well organized and Sofia was excellent. Given everything that happened with COVID-19, I thought Berges and Sofia did a great job adapting. Looking forward to taking more classes with you.
Lisa Romano
5.0
2020-05-28
The course was very enjoyable and I reinforced the basic Spanish I learned in HS. I look forward to taking all the Berges classes and becoming fluent.
Amit Gupta
5.0
2020-04-27
The coursework emphasized learning to speak and understand complete sentences rather than just words which made learning easy
Giovanni
5.0
2020-04-21
I enjoied it very much. I like the learning method.
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