Inhispania Spanish School - Spanish Lessons — Local services in Madrid

I studied in Inhispania for 3 weeks. I took 30h intensive course (3 h 5 min in the morning, 55 min break, 1 h 30 min in the afternoon).

I liked: materials, classrooms (all except one that has no windows, it was really hot in there), schedule, price is fair, quality of education. Everyone from staff is very helpful, kind, accommodating and friendly. Location is absolutely fantastic! Design of common areas is very pleasing. I also think the policy of addressing concerns right away is great, although my concern wasn’t really addressable but I’m still glad the school is very open-minded and willing to improve. Welcome day tapas were also super nice!

Teachers:

1. I especially enjoyed my conversation classes with Antonio. He is a truly gifted and engaging teacher.
2. For my regular classes I initially had Amanda for the first week, and I think that class was a bit disorganized because of the student cohort. I think she tried her best, but the students didn’t engage very well.
3. After a week I changed to a group of higher level with Lucía and I really enjoyed her style of teaching, explanations and pace in the class. I also appreciated that we used the exercise book that we paid for! The group was also very lively and it helped the progress.

I didn’t like: the break of “five minutes” in the morning part of the classes, which in reality has always been 10-15 min, and even all the profs said that the break was 10-15 min. Only when I voiced my concern about it I found out that it is actually supposed to be only five minutes. I don’t think placing the blame on students and saying “it’s the students fault that they take a long break” is fair. Nor it is fair to say that if you extent the break to 10 min then it would become even longer than that. I think the schedule simply needs to be adjusted to reflect the reality rather than make students miss nearly 10 minutes of paid time from each day of classes.

I also didn’t like that all activities are 2h+ but are placed in between the morning and afternoon classes and since I only had a break of about 1 hour between them I couldn’t benefit from any of those.

I also wish there was a public microwave/eating area to eat home made meals, some more toilets (there is only three for women and the line was long every time), and lower temperature in the classrooms especially in heat days (AC was set to 26 C).

Overall I had a very pleasant experience and will very likely consider this school again if I need to improve my spanish. I will also definitely recommend it for my...

I do not recommend this school due to the following reasons:

Our classes were interrupted every Wednesday by one of the staff from Inhispania so that they could take a picture of us in class to post on their Instagram and Facebook. This is EXTREMELY distracting and interrupts our learning for the day.

If a public holiday falls during one of our classes, it would NOT be replaced despite the fact that we pay for our classes by the number of hours/minutes. This could be mentioned more explicitly on Inhispania's website so that students would know the actual number of hours/minutes that they are paying for. I have brought this up to the front desk but all they did was apologize, without being able to offer any kind of compensation, especially for the lack of transparency. I have checked the website of several other schools and they seem to do replacement classes if it falls on a public holiday.

As we were in a beginner's class, the teacher we had was impatient and on several occasions, showed signs of being upset (e.g. slamming on the whiteboard) when we did not understand what he had taught.

Out of the 30 hours of beginner's class that I took, there was almost no practice of speaking. All my classmates and I did was just continuous writing in our notebooks of what the teacher had written on the whiteboard, and this went on for every lesson. I understand that as a beginner, we can barely speak the language, but there was hardly any effort to encourage us to practice speaking what we had learned in the previous lesson which would help to build confidence when learning a new language.

These reviews on Inhispania seems to be written on the last day of our course and if you wanted a small "gift" of Madrid, students would have to post a review and must show it to one of the staff before receiving the gift. Needless to say, although my classmates had the same poor experience as me, they gave a positive review as they wanted the gift for keepsake.

P/S: I am using a different name as I do not want my real name to be publicly...

I have been at Inhispania for 6 weeks, between October and November. My original plan was to stay at Inhispania for two weeks. I signed up for the intensive 30-hour course and also for daily private lessons. I’ve always loved Spanish, and my goal was to come to Madrid for two weeks and take my Spanish to the next level while preparing for my trip to South America. I started my lessons in the second week of the B1 level. Already on the first day, I could feel how in-depth the course was, and it was clear that a lot of thought went into it. After a week at Inhispania, I already felt a massive improvement, which made me consider staying longer. If I felt such an improvement after just one week, I couldn’t imagine how I would feel if I extended my stay. Eventually, I decided to stay for 4 more weeks at Inhispania, and it was the best choice I’ve made. My teacher for the group lessons during the first month was Helena, and she was absolutely amazing! Even when we were a full class, she managed to give personal attention to each student. She adapted to the topics the class wanted to talk about, made the lessons fun and interesting, and I learned so much with her. My private lessons during these 6 weeks (and also conversational lessons for 2 weeks) were with Alberto, who is a great and funny teacher. These lessons provided a space for every doubt I had, and they allowed me to take my Spanish to the next level. Alberto was very patient and attentive to all of my requests. If you are thinking about going to Inhispania, I highly recommend it and promise you won’t regret it. You will learn so much, while having a great experience and feeling at home. At the end of my stay in Madrid, I met with my Spanish teacher with whom I took online lessons at home. That was the first time he had heard my Spanish after my time in Madrid. He was absolutely shocked by my level of Spanish and congratulated me for it. I can now confidently say I speak Spanish, and I’m going on my trip to South America with confidence. Thank you so much, Inhispania, and I hope I’ll see...