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Online Spanish course · taught from València · from València

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A 12-week online course taught by Lucía Ferrer from her kitchen table in Russafa. Twenty minutes a day, a live table every Thursday, and real conversation from the very first week.

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  • 4.9 from 1,860 students
  • 92% finish all 12 weeks
  • Next table Mon, Jan 12

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¿Me pasas la sal?pass the salt?
Huele de maravillait smells wonderful
Un poquito mása little more
¿Quién ha cocinado?who cooked?
Me lo apuntoI'm writing that down
Sin prisano rush

01How it works

Speak in 12 weeks. Here's the whole recipe.

No streaks to protect and no 400-word vocabulary lists. Just a teacher, a table of friends and a little Spanish every day, cooked slowly until it holds together on its own.

Receta nº 1 · from Lucía's kitchen

Spanish you can actually use on Saturday

Prep
20 min a day
Cook
12 weeks
Serves
1 curious adult
Difficulty
Easier than paella

Ingredients

  • 20 mina day of lessonsShort kitchen scenes you can finish before the kettle boils.
  • 1 tableevery ThursdayA live hour with seven other learners and Lucía at the head.
  • 1 voice notea weekSent from your phone, answered by Lucía. Every single one.
  • 12 recipesin SpanishCooked in Spanish. Optional, but you'll want to.
  • A pinchof grammarExactly what you need that week. Never a spoonful more.

Method

  1. 1

    Listen to the scene.

    Every lesson opens in a real moment: a stall at the Mercado Central, a phone call to the tía, a neighbor borrowing salt.

  2. 2

    Say it out loud.

    Repeat after Lucía, record yourself and hear the two side by side. Slow her down whenever you like.

  3. 3

    Bring it to the table.

    On Thursdays you use the week's Spanish for real, eight to a table. Nobody hides on mute.

  4. 4

    Send Lucía a voice note.

    Tell her about your week. She answers with fixes, one new phrase and usually a story about her uncle Paco.

Chef's noteYou'll speak from day one, badly and happily. By week twelve you'll hold a 30-minute conversation over lunch, and you'll have the recipes to host it.

02The curriculum

Twelve weeks. Twelve tiles for your wall.

Each week is one kitchen scene, five short lessons, one live table and one recipe. Finish a week and its tile lights up. By week twelve you have the whole wall, and a conversation to go with it.

Lessons
60
Live tables
12
Phrase cards
600
Recipes
12

  1. By Sunday you can

    • Introduce yourself without a script
    • Ask how someone is, and follow the answer
    • Say where you're from and why you're learning

    Encantada. ¿Y tú, de dónde eres?

    Nice to meet you. And you, where are you from?

    Recipe of the week: café con leche, the Valencian way

  2. By Sunday you can

    • Count to a hundred, and back
    • Ask how much and understand the answer
    • Buy half a kilo of anything

    ¿A cuánto está el kilo?

    How much is it a kilo?

    Recipe of the week: pan con tomate

  3. By Sunday you can

    • Use gustar and encantar without thinking
    • Agree and disagree politely
    • Talk about the food you grew up with

    A mí me encanta, pero a mi hermano no.

    I love it, but my brother doesn't.

    Recipe of the week: tortilla de patatas

  4. By Sunday you can

    • Describe your family, ages and all
    • Ask about someone else's
    • Use possessives without counting on your fingers

    Mi tía siempre llega tarde, pero trae el postre.

    My aunt is always late, but she brings dessert.

    Recipe of the week: lentejas de la abuela

  5. By Sunday you can

    • Walk someone through your day
    • Tell the time, Spanish style
    • Use reflexive verbs like you mean them

    Me levanto a las siete, pero como a las tres.

    I get up at seven, but I eat lunch at three.

    Recipe of the week: bocadillo de calamares

  6. By Sunday you can

    • Order for the whole table
    • Ask for changes, and for the bill
    • Say "ponme" like a regular

    Ponme una caña y unas olivas, por favor.

    A small beer and some olives, please.

    Recipe of the week: patatas bravas

  7. By Sunday you can

    • Follow a recipe read aloud
    • Give instructions with the imperative
    • Explain why there is no chorizo in paella

    Echa el arroz y no lo toques más.

    Add the rice and don't touch it again.

    Recipe of the week: paella valenciana

  8. By Sunday you can

    • Tell the story of your weekend
    • Talk about a trip, start to finish
    • Ask what happened, and react properly

    Ayer fuimos a la playa y tomamos horchata.

    Yesterday we went to the beach and had horchata.

    Recipe of the week: horchata con fartons

  9. By Sunday you can

    • Describe your childhood kitchen
    • Set a scene in the past
    • Mix both past tenses in one story

    Mi abuela siempre hacía arroz con leche los domingos.

    My grandmother always made rice pudding on Sundays.

    Recipe of the week: arroz con leche

  10. By Sunday you can

    • Ask the way, and follow it
    • Make plans with friends
    • Use "voy a" for anything ahead

    ¿Quedamos a las ocho en la plaza?

    Shall we meet at eight in the square?

    Recipe of the week: agua de Valencia

  11. By Sunday you can

    • Wish, hope and recommend
    • Give advice like a friend would
    • Recognize the subjunctive when you hear it

    Ojalá que no llueva el sábado.

    I hope it doesn't rain on Saturday.

    Recipe of the week: all i pebre

  12. By Sunday you can

    • Hold a 30-minute conversation
    • Tell a story with a beginning, a middle and a punchline
    • Argue about paella, and win

    Bueno, ¿otro cafecito y seguimos hablando?

    So, another little coffee and we keep talking?

    Recipe of the week: café del temps
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The January table starts Monday, January 12. Lessons open one week at a time, so nobody gets left behind and nobody gets bored.

03Try a card

Guess first. Then flip.

Every lesson ends with cards like this one: a real situation, the natural answer, how to say it and the note Lucía would scribble in your margin. Your deck grows to 600 cards and quietly brings back the ones you miss.

  • 1Read the situation and say your answer out loud.
  • 2Flip the card and compare. Close counts.
  • 3Tap "Next card" for two more from the course.

Week 02 · En el mercadoCard 1 of 3

At the Mercado Central you want half a kilo of the ugly tomatoes, for salmorejo. What do you say?

Say it out loud first. Then flip.

04Your teacher

She'll fix your Spanish. And your paella.

Lucía Ferrer grew up above her parents' bar in Russafa, translating menus for tourists at nine years old. She taught at València's Escuela Oficial de Idiomas for eleven years, then started teaching from her kitchen table in 2019: four students, one video call, one pot of lentils.

Today that table seats students in 41 countries, and she still answers every voice note herself, usually with a correction, a new phrase and a story about her uncle Paco.

Home
Russafa, València, two streets from the market
Teaching since
2008, the last seven years from this kitchen
Speaks
Spanish, Valencian, English, and enough Italian to argue
Kitchen staff
A 1974 moka pot and a cat called Garrofó
Sundays
Paella. No chorizo. Ever.
1,860students since 2019
41countries at the table
9,412voice notes answered

05Student stories

From "perdón" to sobremesa.

92%finish all 12 weeks
4.9average from 1,860 students
38%come back for a second table

“I argued with a taxi driver in València. In Spanish. And I won.”

Penny S., product designer in Toronto · La mesa, spring 2025

I'd kept a 900-day app streak and still froze ordering a coffee. In week three I ordered for the whole table.

Mark D.ER nurse, Denver

My mother-in-law cried at Christmas dinner. The good kind. She had never heard me speak Spanish before.

Hannah K.Teacher, Leeds

My parents spoke Spanish at home and I answered in English for thirty years. The Thursday tables fixed that in twelve weeks.

Tomás R.Firefighter, Chicago

Lucía answered my voice note about the subjunctive with a four-minute story about her uncle's lemon tree. I will never forget the subjunctive.

Grace O.Accountant, Melbourne

I'm 67 and I was sure I'd be the slow one at my table. I wasn't. That was Greg, who is 34. We're friends now.

Ellen M.Retired librarian, Portland

06Pricing

Pick your seat at the table.

Para llevar

"To go" · self-paced

$149one payment

All 60 lessons, the 600-card deck and every recipe, at your own speed.

  • 60 lessons and kitchen scenes
  • A 600-card deck that remembers what you miss
  • 12 recipe cards in Spanish
  • Yours to keep, forever
  • Thursday tables
  • Voice notes with Lucía
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La mesa

"The table" · live cohort

$249one payment

Everything to go, plus a seat at the Thursday table and Lucía in your ear every week.

  • Everything in Para llevar
  • 12 live Thursday tables, eight people each
  • A weekly voice note, answered by Lucía
  • A signed certificate and your own real tile
  • The two-week taste test refund
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7 seats left for January 12

Con Lucía

"With Lucía" · private

$549one payment

The table, plus four private calls with Lucía and a plan for after week twelve.

  • Everything at La mesa
  • Four private 30-minute calls
  • Your own week-13 plan
  • A tin of pimentón from the Mercado Central, posted to your door
Book with Lucía

Six private seats per cohort

The two-week taste test.

Do the first two weeks. If it isn't for you, email us and get every cent back. No form, no guilt trip. Teams of five or more get 15% off.

Read the questions

07Questions

Preguntas, answered.

Still wondering? Send Lucía a voice note or an email at [email protected]. She answers within a day, from the kitchen.

I've tried apps. Why would this stick?

Because it isn't an app. It's a teacher, a table of eight people who notice when you're missing, and lessons built around things you'll actually say. 92% of our students finish all twelve weeks.

Who is this for?

Complete beginners and the "rusty from school" crowd. If you can already hold a twenty-minute conversation, book a free call and Lucía will tell you honestly, then point you to the right course.

Is it Spain Spanish or Latin American Spanish?

Lucía speaks the Spanish of València, and you'll hear it. Every lesson also flags what changes in Mexico, Colombia or Argentina, and you can use "ustedes" all the way through. You'll be understood everywhere.

How much time does it really take?

Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, plus the Thursday table: about three hours a week. Lessons download for offline listening, so the commute counts.

What if I miss a Thursday table?

Each week's table runs three times: Thursday 7 pm València, Thursday 6 pm New York and Friday 9 am Sydney. Join whichever fits. Miss all three and you get the recording plus a make-up voice note.

Do I really have to cook?

No. The recipes are there for the Spanish, not the cooking. Plenty of students read them out loud and order takeout. Lucía pretends not to know.

What happens after week twelve?

You keep the lessons and your deck for good. Many students join "Segunda mesa", the intermediate table that starts every April.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Do the first two weeks. If it isn't for you, email us and get every cent back.

08Enroll

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The January table starts Monday, January 12. Twenty-four seats, three tables of eight, and Lucía is already testing the lentils.

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