Ros Tyler - Spanish - Testimonials

I joined Ros’ Advanced Spanish class two years ago and I really feel my Spanish is developing to the next level now. Ros is an excellent, experienced teacher with an in-depth knowledge of both spoken, written and literary Spanish. She is patient and thorough: for example she will ask you in an encouraging and positive way, when speaking Spanish, to repeat words in order to improve your pronunciation. Her lessons are interesting and varied. During the last sixteen months, due to the COVID pandemic, our group has worked in groups using Zoom and we have covered material ranging from reading and discussing a novel about the Spanish Civil War to studying colloquially spoken Spanish in real life situations. We have also studied grammar topics and developed our vocabulary from exercises that Ros has set. Zoom has given us the opportunity to work with other students in small break out groups. Ros speaks to you in both Spanish and English and adapts her teaching style to students of different abilities. I cannot praise Ros highly enough for her enthusiasm and lively approach.

Ros Tyler has taught me Spanish for 3 years now, from a total beginner. She has been a fantastic motivator, always pushing gently to achieve more than I think I am capable of, so that I can make good progress.
Whilst the current pandemic has forced lessons to go online, Ros has done her utmost to keep the momentum going. Ros always listens to what I wish to concentrate on and helps me in areas where I struggle and she keeps going through thick and thin, even when she had Covid!!

I have been having Spanish lessons with Ros now for six years and it’s the longest I have stuck with it, having done a couple of beginners courses in the past. She creates a lovely friendly group and delivers the content in a rich variety of ways which always makes it fun and engaging. We used to meet round her kitchen table and in these Covid times she switched to zoom last March. Despite the disadvantages of not being face to face she has made this work well using features of the app to put people into break out groups to work together. She emails us worksheets or pictures that we will use in the class and I like this as I can look at it and maybe research some useful vocabulary. Another advantage of zoom is that I don’t miss so many lessons if we are away as I can join from anywhere Is get a decent phone signal.

You can’t progress with a language without learning the grammar and verb tenses and she teaches this well from excellent text books. She also returns and revises this as we all get a bit rusty!

I would thoroughly recommend Ros as a teacher of Spanish.

Ros is a brilliant Spanish teacher – her teaching materials are great teaching about Spanish culture as well as language. I combine my weekly zoom lessons with Ros with regular Duolingo practice and find the combination works well together.