"Who would have thought that the finest Spanish language teaching is to be found  not in Mexico, Guatemala, or Costa Rica ( places where I've traveled hoping to find it) but instead in my own home town, St Paul, Minnesota?  But, truly, that's where it is, gracias a Rojas Spanish. Never in several previous years of study have I found myself more intellectually stimulated or more positively challenged. Never before have I found an instructor and a method of teaching more closely attuned to my own particular interests and personal goals. And best of all, making rapid progress turns out to be enormous fun!  I recommend Rojas Spanish with enormous enthusiasm."

James B. Stewart, Department of History, Macalester College, St. Paul MN

"The new online website has proven to be an extremely valuable tool for me.
The real life videos present situations as we experience them in real life, including background sounds and noises, not the always perfectly enunciated words and phases from the more typical teaching programs.  I especially find useful the audio segments with the displayed text.  I can listen, watch the flow and inflections and then practice and repeat."

Pat Oven, Businessman, MN

This is how our Online Video Learning program works:

Hi Joan,
 
You and Luis have been so helpful thus far.  Thank you both for your prompt responses and for your time!  
 
I work in membership services at a YMCA here in the San Francisco bay area.  Almost 50% of our members are latinos, many of whom speak little English.  It is important for me personally and professionally to be able to communicate with everyone with eloquence and efficacy.  I have studied Spanish off and on for about 3 years, ever since I moved to the area.  In the last four or five days of watching your videos over and over, writing down the dialogues, looking up troublesome words, speaking aloud words and phrases again and again, then watching the videos yet again, my ability to speak Spanish has improved considerably.  Just in the last few days I have had so much fun getting to know some people whom I have seen pass in and out of the Y for two years.  The videos have especially helped my listening comprehension and my overall confidence in engaging people in conversation. 
 
I know that learning a language takes a mammoth amount of time, patience, and study.  It took me one year of INTENSE study and an additional year living in Germany, speaking NOTHING but German, to come up to a level of conversational comfort.  I don't have quite the same opportunity with Spanish, but I am having a lot of fun with it.  Rojasspanish.com continues to be a key component in my quest for fluency!  
 
Okay, I have to go study before work!  Thank you again!
 
Warm regards,
 
Everett