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Your Business Speaks Spanish.
So Should You.

Private 1-on-1 Business Spanish lessons with a qualified native Spanish teacher. Built around your industry, your meetings, your schedule — not a generic corporate curriculum.

Whether you work with Spanish clients, manage teams across Spain and Latin America, or simply want to bring professional fluency to your career — lessons built around your role make all the difference.

Industry-Specific Vocabulary Built Around Your Role Native from Spain
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Your sector, your vocabulary

Finance, logistics, tech, real estate, hospitality — lessons are built around the Spanish your industry actually uses, not general-purpose phrases that never appear in your working day.

2

Business register from day one

Formal email openings, meeting protocols, negotiation phrasing, presentation structure — the precision that professional Spanish requires, taught as a distinct register from the first session.

3

Fits around a full professional diary

Morning before calls, lunchtime, evenings — lessons available across the working week with no fixed timetable. Professional schedules change; lesson bookings change with them.

The business case

Why Spanish matters for your career right now

#2

Spanish is the second most useful business language globally — after English. No other language opens as many markets.

20–30%

Better chances of hire at international companies for professionals with business Spanish skills, per LinkedIn Hiring data.

Even basic conversational Spanish in a client relationship builds trust in ways that translation never can.

Why Rise Language Lab

Private lessons built for professional performance

01

Your Industry, Your Vocabulary

Lessons are built around the Spanish you actually use: your sector, your client types, your typical conversations. Finance, hospitality, logistics, tech, real estate — the vocabulary that matters to your role, from session one.

02

Formal Register — Not Travel Spanish

Business Spanish requires precision: formal emails, negotiation phrasing, presentation structure, and the right level of formality for each context. This is taught as a distinct skill from day one — not as an afterthought.

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Progress You Can Use Immediately

Unlike academic programmes, lessons produce immediately transferable results. Students regularly report using new vocabulary and phrasing within days of each session — in actual professional situations.

What we cover

What a Business Spanish lesson actually looks like

No grammar worksheets and no holiday scenarios. Each session is a working session — the content below, built around your real professional life.

Professional email writing

Formal register, correct openings and closings, clarity under business constraints, culturally appropriate tone for Spain versus Latin America.

Meeting language

Opening a meeting, presenting agenda items, questioning, confirming, following up, and closing agreements — the full arc of professional interaction.

Presentations

Structuring an argument, signposting between sections, handling questions with authority, and landing a conclusion that sounds professional rather than translated.

Negotiation vocabulary

Proposing, countering, agreeing in principle, declining without damaging the relationship — the full negotiation register in business Spanish.

Phone and video call Spanish

The specific challenges of spoken professional interaction — opening and closing calls, confirming understanding, managing the pace, handling unexpected turns.

Cross-cultural context

The unspoken rules of business in Spain versus Latin America — relationship-building norms, decision-making styles, what signals trust and what signals risk.

The programmes

Two routes to professional Spanish fluency

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Conversational Spanish

Activating your Spanish for real professional conversations. Meetings, calls, client relationships, colleague interactions — with the confidence and precision that business requires. For professionals who need to produce Spanish in live, high-stakes situations. Results-focused from the first session.

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ELE — Spanish as a Foreign Language

For those who want a strong grammatical foundation alongside professional fluency. Systematic, structured, and academically rigorous — with business application built in from the start. Ideal for professionals who want thorough comprehension alongside confident spoken output.

The real challenge

The gap between school Spanish
and business Spanish is enormous

You're on a call with a Spanish client. The rapport is there — until the conversation turns to contract terms and you're nodding along hoping it's in the follow-up email.

Your Latin American colleague speaks excellent English — but the relationship would be completely different if you made the effort in their language.

You've studied Spanish before. You know the grammar. But business conversations are a completely different register — formal, specific, high-stakes — and general Spanish doesn't bridge that gap.

The process

From first session to boardroom confidence

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Tell Me About Your Role and Goals

What do you do, who do you interact with in Spanish, what is your current level, what are your most urgent scenarios? The plan is built around your actual professional life — not a standard syllabus.

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A Customised Professional Plan

Lessons structured around your real work situations — actual emails, real meeting formats, your industry's vocabulary. No generic business textbooks, no time spent on content that does not apply to your role.

3

Immediate Application

Every lesson produces vocabulary and phrasing you can use this week. Progress is measured in real professional confidence — the conversation you lead, the email you write, the deal you close in Spanish.

Quick Answers

Frequently asked questions

What level of Spanish do I need before starting Business Spanish lessons?
No fixed minimum. Business Spanish lessons are available from complete beginner level upward — the approach is simply different depending on where you start. Complete beginners build professional vocabulary and formal register from the ground up, which is often faster than going through a general course first. Those with existing Spanish — school-level or conversational — focus on transitioning into the formal register and filling the professional vocabulary gaps. The first session establishes exactly where you are and what the right structure looks like for your level and goals.
My company does business with Latin America — do you teach Latin American Spanish?
Lessons are taught in Castilian Spanish — the standard of Spain. The good news is that Spanish is mutually intelligible across all regions: the grammar, formal written register, and professional vocabulary you learn are fully understood and respected throughout Latin America. Whether your clients are in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina or Chile, the Spanish you develop in these lessons will work. Regional accents and a handful of local expressions differ, but professional Spanish is professional Spanish.
Can lessons focus on a specific scenario — like presentations or email writing?
Entirely. This is one of the primary advantages of private lessons over a group course or generic programme. If you have a major presentation in four weeks, lessons can be structured entirely around that: vocabulary, structure, rehearsal, handling Q&A. If email writing is your bottleneck, every session can prioritise written register until it is fully under control. Lessons respond to your actual professional calendar — not the other way round.
How is this different from a corporate language programme?
Three differences that matter. First, it is 100% private — every minute of every session is focused on you, not shared with colleagues at different levels. Second, the content is built around your specific role and industry, not a standardised corporate syllabus designed for a fictional company. Third, the pace and structure respond to your actual professional schedule — deadlines, travel, intensive periods — rather than a fixed programme calendar that runs regardless. Students consistently report faster progress and higher relevance than previous group corporate programmes.
I travel to Spain frequently — can lessons also cover cultural context for business in Spain?
Absolutely — and it is included as standard for anyone working with Spanish counterparts. The cultural layer of business in Spain is genuinely distinct: relationship-building before business decisions, the pace and formality of meetings, what professional trust looks and sounds like, how hierarchies operate. Your teacher is from Spain, so this knowledge is direct and current — not drawn from a textbook written twenty years ago. Cultural context is not an add-on; for most professionals working with Spain, it is as important as the vocabulary itself.
Are invoices available for employer reimbursement?
Yes — formal invoices are provided for every lesson or lesson package, suitable for professional expense claims and employer reimbursement.

Your next business conversation
in Spanish is closer than you think.

Book a free 15-minute call. We discuss your role, your current level, your most urgent scenarios — and we start building the plan that gets you there.

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