"Lucía's competent instruction has helped me to progress from broken Spanish into fluency in just a year. She stands heads and shoulders above the crowd."

Mercedes Bourgaize, Librarian
Harris & Company LLP

"Lucía was my Spanish instructor. She is excellent at getting a student to speak and practice, excellent at breaking down the grammar to help the student build their skill level and was always on time and with great energy. I highly recommend her classes and will gladly work with her again in the future."

Chen Lizra, CEO
Latidos Productions

"I meet with Lucía Terra on a weekly basis for Spanish language classes, so I can attest to her exceptional language teaching ability. You would be extremely fortunate to have her as your teacher. She has an outstanding teaching style, backed up with expertise in pedagogy, and is highly conscientious, motivated, and capable. Based on my personal experience, I can unreservedly recommend Lucía to any advanced Spanish language student."

Peter Schaub, Translator

"Lucía is a great instructor. She always uses different techniques, which keeps the classes interesting. Even after 4 1/2 years of classes, I'm always learning something new!"

Melanie Leung, Researcher

"Lucía is an excellent language tutor. She is energetic, funny, and easy to chat with, and her friendly and easy-going attitude makes for a relaxing, casual, and comfortable environment. Speaking from the perspective of somebody with relatively no conversational Spanish experience, at first I was slightly reluctant to try out a conversational tutor for fear of feeling uncomfortable or making mistakes. However, my speaking skills have greatly improved, as she is very helpful, patient, and never rushes or puts pressure on her students. Not only does she provide useful grammatical corrections and new vocabulary and expressions, but she also creates a wonderfully fun learning atmosphere! I would definitely recommend her as a tutor and I look forward to our next session!"

Stephanie Hong, undergraduate student

"I have been learning with Lucía for 2 years and I love her teaching style. She is really good at hearing your unique challenges and focusing on those areas; she speaks at a level you can understand, but pushes you on the areas she's teaching. She always takes notes during the class so you don't have to worry about trying to remember any new words, and sets homework specific to your trouble areas. At first I wasn't sure working on Skype would work, but now I think it's brilliant and am recommending it to everyone, it saves me a lot of travel time and the classes are just as enjoyable."

Kate Follington, Assistant Communications
Tides Canada Foundation

"I have been working with Lucía for several years with online Spanish classes. She is an excellent professor who has enabled me to obtain my goal of self-sufficiency in Spanish. This has greatly enhanced my ability to care for Spanish speaking patients, develop patient relationships, and friendships beyond those with a translator. She is flexible to work with my busy schedule and can tailor instruction to meet my individual needs."

Jeffrey Keyser, MD

"Thanks to your help, my children have improved their English greatly. And my children are very satisfied and pleased with you and your teaching. We are very pleased about that and appreciate your help."

Seong Si Jeong, father of two

"Lucía Terra has provided me with the finest Spanish tutoring I have thus far experienced, and I have had tutors in New York, Buenos Aires, and Vancouver before. Her ability to design lessons based on my specific needs and requests has been simply phenomenal. Since I live in different cities, of particular help to me has been Lucía's facility at using SKYPE to ensure lessons remain regular. Her intelligence, worldliness, and natural curiosity have made the lessons even more stimulating. I strongly recommend Lucía to anyone who is interested in enhancing and strengthening their Spanish skills."

Leanne Averbach, writer & performance poet

"Lucía is an excellent teacher! I'm an advanced learner, who has taken many, many Spanish courses, and this is definitely the most concentrated and effective learning experience I have had. Lucía brings energy and a sense of fun to her teaching, along with focus and professionalism. Without making me self-conscious, Lucía gently corrects my errors, and gives clear explanations of subtle vocabulary and grammatical issues. She has a great ear for identifying consistent errors, and pinpoints the areas I need to work on. She sends me a note after the class highlighting new vocabulary, idioms and grammar points that we covered, so in class I can focus on learning instead of note-taking. With Lucía's expert help, I'm finally getting to the next level with my Spanish!"

Jeff Goldie, Interpreter

"I would recommend Lucía to anyone who wants to learn the Spanish Language. She provides excellent individual instruction using a variety of teaching techniques including online resources. "

Stuart Lein, Lawyer

"It is a great joy to learn Spanish with Lucía. When I asked her to tutor me, my Spanish was too good for a beginner's class and not quite good enough for an intermediate class. Lucía adjusted her teaching to fit my needs perfectly. Her private Spanish classes prepared me well for my trip of a life-time to South America. I was able to engage in conversations and get to know the locals. ¡Muchas gracias, Lucía! "

Julia James, Life Coach

" I have worked with Lucía for about 6 months having a weekly skype session. She has been not only reliable and easy to work with but I would also say that her knowledge and teaching skills are top level compared to other Spanish instructors that I have worked with. Lucia is constantly able to identify my learning needs and set a pace that works for me. What I like best about working with her is how she is able to immediately identifiy my weakness and address them. She also provides useful feedback and guidance on my doubts. "

Katie Bronnenkant, MBA student

"Lucía does a great job at explaining and bringing things into simple terms, such a fantastic teacher. She offers any suggestions on studying and going further with Spanish or any language. Very warm personality, enthusiastic, and welcoming to all! Always a smile and a vast collection of resources for extra help. Highly recommended for flexibility and patience!! Thanks Lucía!! "

Darshan Thind, psychology student

"First off, I just want to let you know I was very pleased with the tutoring from Lucía. She really has been excellent and I don't know where I would have been without all her help. I appreciated it very much (along with her patience) and was very happy that Lucía was able put in as many hours as needed".

Alexander Adamson, undergrad student

"Lucía is a patient and enthusiastic teacher. My son started his first year of Spanish when he was a grade-5 student at school. That meant he had only a few months to catch up with Spanish from grade 1 to grade 4. It was a "mission impossible" for my son. However, with Lucía's hard work and teaching, my son's mark in Spanish went from level 2 to level 5 within few weeks. It's amazing. We started Spanish tutoring with Lucía about six months ago, but when I look at them, it seems that they have built a long-term relationship. I can tell how much my son enjoys the Spanish lesson with Lucía. She is a great teacher."

Diana Kang, mother of a 10-year old boy