Business Spanish training
Spanish that works in Madrid and in Mexico City.
Corporate Spanish training for teams selling, managing and negotiating across Spain and Latin America. We decide the variety and register with you at the scoping call — because the Spanish that lands in Madrid is not the Spanish that lands in Bogotá — then train against your own meetings and contracts.
Why companies buy this
Two markets, one language, and a register that does not travel.
Choosing between tú, usted and vos is not linguistic trivia. It is how your counterpart decides whether you understand their market.
Companies usually buy "Spanish" and then discover their people are working with four countries that share grammar and share very little else: the level of formality, the humour, the pace of a negotiation and the speed of a decision all move when you cross the Atlantic.
The commercial cost is subtle. Nobody misunderstands the words. What happens instead is that a UK manager sounds abrupt in Bogotá, over-familiar in Madrid, or spends three calls arriving at a decision a local counterpart would have signalled in one.
So the first question we ask is not a level. It is which Spanish, for whom, in which market — and the programme is built from that answer rather than from a course book that pretends the difference is a footnote.
Our tutor selection and matching is reviewed by The Good Schools Guide, and Learn&Co is a member of The Tutors' Association.
Who the programme is for
Who inside the organisation needs Spanish?
Commercial teams covering Iberia and LatAm
Sales, partnerships and account teams whose territory spans several Spanish-speaking markets. We train the shared professional Spanish first, then the market-specific register, so the same person can pitch in Barcelona on Monday and Santiago on Thursday.
Executives with a Spanish-speaking subsidiary
Leaders who inherit a Madrid, Mexico or Buenos Aires office and want to chair its meetings, read its numbers and hear what the local team is actually saying rather than what the summary says.
Operations, supply chain and manufacturing
Daily contact with plants, suppliers and logistics partners: specifications, delays, escalation and the difference between a soft yes and a commitment.
Professional services and legal teams
Advisers working on Spanish and Latin American mandates who need contract vocabulary, client correspondence and the confidence to run a call without an interpreter in the room.
What we actually train
The business Spanish that decides outcomes.
Choosing the right Spanish
Peninsular and Latin American varieties compared where it matters commercially: vocabulary, formality, vosotros and ustedes, voseo, and the tone that reads as respectful in each market.
Formality and the tú/usted decision
When to move to first names, who moves first, and how to stay warm without becoming familiar in markets where seniority is signalled carefully.
Meetings and relationship-building
The conversation before the agenda is not small talk — it is the negotiation warming up. Learners rehearse both, at real speed, with real interruptions.
Negotiation and commitment language
Conditions, deadlines, price and liability said out loud without ambiguity, plus reading the hedged answer that means no.
Written Spanish that reads as professional
Email register, proposals, contract summaries and internal comms that do not read as translated from English.
Sector vocabulary
Finance, legal, property, energy, retail or manufacturing terminology taken from your own documents rather than a generic business word list.
What the training looks like
Rehearsal for the meeting you have next week.
Selected network first, matching within it second. The tutors were interviewed and accepted into our network long before your enquiry arrived; what happens after the brief is design, selection and oversight — not recruitment.
Your market, your material
Your decks, your contracts and your counterparties' countries. If the account is in Mexico, the tutor, the accent, the vocabulary and the negotiation style are Mexican — not an average of the Spanish-speaking world.
Rehearsal, not lecture
Most of the hour is the learner speaking Spanish under realistic pressure — a simulated negotiation, a hostile question, a two-minute update — with the tutor correcting what actually undermines them.
Mixed levels handled honestly
Where a team spans several levels, we assess individually and stream the group. Nobody is held back and nobody is drowning; the syllabus and vocabulary stay shared so the team still speaks a common professional language.
Scheduling that survives the diary
Early mornings, evenings, split sessions, remote weeks. Programmes are bought in monthly blocks rather than fixed slots so business travel does not break the rhythm.
How it is run
From scoping call to week-six review.
Scoping call
Twenty minutes with Maria: who is learning, what they have to be able to do in Spanish, by when, and who signs the training off.
Level assessment
Every learner is assessed individually — speaking as well as grammar — so a mixed-ability team is grouped honestly rather than averaged into one useless class.
Written objectives and proposal
You receive objectives written as tasks, a recommended format, a schedule and a price. Nothing starts until the business has signed that off.
Specialist selection
We select from tutors already interviewed into our Spanish network — by sector as much as by language — and you meet them before anything is committed.
Delivery around the working week
Weekly sessions online, at your offices or at ours in London, early mornings and evenings included, with a rescheduling policy that assumes business travel exists.
Reporting and the week-six review
Monthly written progress reports against the agreed objectives, attendance visible, and a founder-led review at week six to adjust pace, objectives or tutor.
Formats and investment
Three ways to structure your programme.
Companies buy corporate training in three different shapes, so we price it in three different ways. Executive programmes start at £120/hr per learner, bought in hours; open business terms start at £950 per person for ten weeks; a closed team programme is quoted in full after the scoping call, once the number of learners, the spread of levels and the frequency are clear. All figures include VAT.
Executive one-to-one
One person, one objective, complete flexibility.
A bespoke Spanish programme for a single executive or specialist, built around the meetings, documents and clients that person actually deals with.
- Objectives agreed in writing before the first session
- Material drawn from your own documents and meetings
- Online, at your offices or at ours in London
- Monthly written reporting to the budget holder
From £120/hr
Bought in hours, per learner, VAT included: 4 hours at £120/hr (£480) month to month, down to £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896).
Closed in-company group
One team, one syllabus, one invoice.
A group from the same organisation taught together in Spanish, streamed by level so nobody is held back or left behind.
- Levels assessed individually, then grouped honestly
- Sector vocabulary shared across the whole team
- Consolidated reporting across locations
- Suits teams of three and upwards
Quoted
Calculated on group size, the spread of levels, frequency and whether you want us on site — quoted in full after the scoping call.
Open business group term
A ten-week term at a shared price.
Live small-group business Spanish, for companies sending one or two people, or professionals who prefer to learn alongside others.
- Ten-week terms, maximum six people
- Professional syllabus, not a general course
- Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, London and online
- Invoiced to the company on request
From £950
Per person for a ten-week term, including VAT. A1–A2 £950, B1–B2 £1,050, C1–C2 £1,150. Maximum six people.
All figures include VAT. We invoice companies directly, work to purchase orders, and can provide the documentation, insurance and safeguarding information procurement teams ask for.
The evidence
Delivered inside law firms, hedge funds, publishing houses and global groups.
From our corporate clients
Our corporate training record.
A filmed client testimonial from our corporate training work, alongside verified reviews from professionals and companies across our languages — evidence of how we work, not all of it specific to business Spanish.
“As English isn’t my native language, I’ve always tried to improve my skills by taking different courses, whether group sessions or one-to-one. Working with Marianne and Learn&Co has been, without a doubt, my best experience. Marianne is an…”
“I started taking lessons with Maria about six months ago in order to try and get my rusty French to a good enough level that I could use it professionally in my work as a lawyer. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Her enthusiasm and…”
“We came across Learn&Co thanks to a recommendation from a friend at Hyperion Insurance Group. He was so happy with their corporate language training that we decided to contact them and set up a trial lesson. It’s now been over 6 months…”
“I have been taking classes to improve my French and Spanish with Learn&Co for the past year and I have to say I’m loving it. I’m impressed with the quality and structure of the lessons. I feel like I’m making great progress. A few months…”
“Could not recommend more highly — a wonderful tutor. I have been tutored by Maria through work for a year and it has been a fantastic experience. The lessons are well structured (split between grammar, presentation, conversation, question…”
“I started French tutoring with Maria about 4 months ago and it has been incredibly beneficial. I work for a large financial corporation and I wanted to increase our business presence in the French speaking countries in North Africa. Maria…”
“I was looking for a mix of help with social chat in french, developing my professional french and rebooting my grammar and written french that had suffered from years of underuse. Maria is funny, engaging and highly skilful as a teacher.…”
Questions
Before you brief us.
- Should our team learn Spanish from Spain or Latin American Spanish?
- Whichever market they work in. The core language is shared, so nothing is wasted, but the register, vocabulary and negotiation style differ enough to matter commercially. We agree the variety at the scoping call and match a tutor from that market.
- Our team covers both Spain and Latin America. Is that a problem?
- No, and it is common. We teach a neutral professional core and then train the specific differences explicitly — vosotros and ustedes, voseo, formality and market-specific vocabulary — so people can switch consciously rather than hoping nobody notices.
- Can you prepare staff for DELE or SIELE?
- Yes. Where a role, a registration or a relocation requires a formal level, we prepare for DELE and SIELE against the examination date alongside the professional programme.
- What does Business Spanish training cost?
- Bespoke Business Spanish programmes are bought in hours: 4 hours at £120/hr (£480) month to month, down to £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896), VAT included, and are quoted in full after the scoping call, once learners, objectives and frequency are agreed. Open business group terms start at £950 per person for a ten-week term (A1–A2 £950, B1–B2 £1,050, C1–C2 £1,150). We invoice companies directly and work to purchase orders.
- Our team is at very different levels. Does that ruin a group programme?
- No, provided it is handled at the start. Every learner is assessed individually before the programme is designed, and a mixed team is streamed into two or three groups with a shared syllabus and shared vocabulary. We will tell you honestly when a group is the wrong purchase.
- Do you deliver in person, or only online?
- Both. We teach at your offices in London, at ours, and online for teams split across offices or time zones. Most corporate programmes end up mixed, and the format can change mid-programme without renegotiating anything.
- How do we prove it is working?
- Objectives are written as tasks at the start — run the weekly call unaided, answer client correspondence without help, present the quarterly update on site. You receive monthly written reports and a founder-led review at week six, with CEFR benchmarking where a formal level is required.
- Who are the tutors?
- Spanish specialists already interviewed and accepted into our network long before your enquiry arrives, with genuine professional and sector experience. The match is made within that network against your brief and your sector, with Maria overseeing it, and you meet the tutor before anything is committed.
- Can you run programmes in several languages at once?
- Yes. We deliver in nine languages with a single point of contact and consolidated reporting, so a company training three teams manages one relationship rather than three suppliers.
- What if the tutor is not right for the learner?
- We rematch, at no cost. The chemistry call before the programme starts and the week-six review exist precisely so that is a small correction rather than a wasted budget.
Other ways to learn Spanish
Not a corporate programme? There is another route.
Ready to brief us?
Twenty minutes with Maria.
Tell Maria who is learning, what they must be able to do in Spanish and by when. She will tell you how we would approach it, which specialist she would match them with, and what it would cost.
Maria Toubbe
- 20 minutes
- A conversation, not a sales call.
- With Maria
- Our founder, every time — not a call centre.
- No obligation
- Advice you can use even if you never book.
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