Tools for Spanish Pronunciation

In this 3 week course, students will master the phonology (the sounds) of Spanish. Lose your foreign accent! Avoid potentially embarrassing or confusing situations! Understand all the Spanish you hear as you go about your day! Before anything else, a language is a system of sounds. Once students understand how Spanish phonology works and are able to pronounce correctly the phonemes (individual vowels and consonants) of Spanish, they will not only sound better when they speak, but will also better understand others.

Gareth Collingwood A self-taught bilingual speaker of Spanish and English and has taught both languages across the Americas and in Europe for the last three decades. He holds a master's degree in linguistics from the University of British Columbia and a combined honors degree in Liguistics and Spanish/Latin American studies from the University of Alberta. Before living in Mexico, he was a university language professor in Canada. In addition to his academic career, Gareth has travelled by bicycle through every country in Latin America and written extensively on this subject. He now lives in Ajijic with his family.