Course Orientation

This brief, yet detailed, course orientation is with Bilingual America founder and CEO, Ricardo González who is also the developer of the Spanish Power course.
Please download and print the notes and then follow along with Ricardo.

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Thank you completing the SpanishPower™ course orientation!

We are very excited to help you learn Spanish. Are you ready to get started? Choose your plan below!
Still have questions? Please contact us to speak with a teaching professional. You may also review our FAQs.

Course Orientation

This brief, yet detailed, course orientation is with Bilingual America founder and CEO, Ricardo González who is also the developer of the Spanish Power course.
Please download and print the notes and then follow along with Ricardo.

Download Notes
Thank you completing the SpanishPower™ course orientation!

We are very excited to help you learn Spanish. Are you ready to get started? Choose your plan below!
Still have questions? Please contact us to speak with a teaching professional. You may also review our FAQs.

Choose Your Plan

Choose your desired pace and payment plan to get started today!
Pace should be selected based on the consistent weekly time commitment you can make to learning Spanish. The two-year program requires three hours of time investment weekly; the one-year program six hours weekly and the six-month program 12 hours of time investment weekly.

Monthly

$124.75

Per Month (24 Months)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 1 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring session weekly†
  • Certification Exams upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime!#
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Level By Level

$697

Per Level (4 Levels)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 24 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Level to Level Commitment
Buy Now!

Full Course Save 15%

$2697

Per Course
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 96 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level (4 total)
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime
Buy Now!

Monthly

$249.50

Per Month (12 Months)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 2 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions weekly†
  • Certification Exams upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime!#
Buy Now!

Level By Level

$697

Per Level (4 Levels)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 24 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Level to Level Commitment
Buy Now!

Full Course Save 15%

$2697

Per Course
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 96 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level (4 total)
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime
Buy Now!

Monthly

$499

Per Month (6 Months)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 4 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions weekly†
  • Certification Exams upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime!#
Buy Now!

Level By Level

$697

Per Level (4 Levels)
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 24 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Level to Level Commitment
Buy Now!

Full Course Save 15%

$2697

Per Course
  • Online access to SpanishPower™ Course Materials
  • 96 one-on-one 30-minute tutoring sessions
  • Certificate Exam upon completing each level (4 total)
  • Quizzes after each lesson
  • Unlimited phone and email support
  • Adjust Pace‡
  • Cancel Anytime
Buy Now!

*Course Length and Pricing. Students can elect to complete the course in 6-months, 1-year or 2-years. Monthly course fees are adjusted for the course-length selected: $124.75/mth for a 2-year program, $249.50/mth for a 1-year program and $499/mth for a 6-month program.
†Tutoring and Course Pace. Two tutoring sessions are provided with each lesson (there are a total of 48 lessons in the course). All students are required to elect a course pace and will receive tutoring and course materials in connection with the elected pace. Students in the 2-year program will receive one 30 minute tutoring session per week and should complete one lesson every two weeks. Students in the 1-year program will receive two 30 minute tutoring sessions per week and should complete one lesson every week. Students in the 6-month program will receive four 30 minute tutoring sessions per week and should complete two lessons every week. Tutoring sessions that are not used at the elected pace will be lost (i.e., if you have 4 tutoring sessions per month, but only use 3, the additional session does not roll over to the next month). Additional tutoring sessions are available for purchase a la carte.
‡Course Pace. Students can elect to complete the course in 6-months, 1-year or 2-years. Tutoring and online course materials must be completed at the elected pace. The 6-month program requires a 12 hour weekly time commitment. The 1-year program requires a 6 hour weekly time commitment. The 2-year program requires a 3 hour weekly time commitment. If you are paying monthly and elect to adjust your pace mid-course, your monthly course fee will be adjusted to reflect the new pace.
#Cancellations. Bilingual America reserves the right to re-admission in the event of cancellation of a monthly payment program. We are committed to results and will only work with students who demonstrate that they are serious about achieving high-level results.

For any questions regarding our pricing plans above, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Praise for SpanishPower™

  • Your approach to language training is genius!Newt Gingrich
    Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • While Chairman of U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, I was able to conduct a number of seminars in Spanish for the governments of several Latin America countries. I would not have been able to pull this off without Bilingual America.Hal Stratton
    Former Chairman U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission
    Former Attorney General of New Mexico
  • Thank you Bilingual America for changing my life! I passed a global assessment of Spanish proficiency and have been invited to serve with the Peace Corps in Peru. ¡Ustedes son mágnificos!Mixon Ware, PHD
    Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University
  • Your approach to language training is genius!Newt Gingrich
    Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • While Chairman of U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, I was able to conduct a number of seminars in Spanish for the governments of several Latin America countries. I would not have been able to pull this off without Bilingual America.Hal Stratton
    Former Chairman U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission
    Former Attorney General of New Mexico
  • Thank you Bilingual America for changing my life! I passed a global assessment of Spanish proficiency and have been invited to serve with the Peace Corps in Peru. ¡Ustedes son mágnificos!Mixon Ware, PHD
    Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University

Frequently Asked Questions

Sure! The goal, and normal result of the program, is to reach 85 to 90 percent proficiency of an educated native Spanish speaker. The SpanishPower™ learning process is a combination of our Basic through Expert Level Course Materials, one-on-one tutoring, bi-weekly group classes with Program Directors, quizzes after each lesson, certification exams after each level, and unlimited support by phone and email.
Our students typically complete the course and achieve high-level proficiency in around 280 to 300 hours of total time investment. Our students complete the course in six months, one year, or two years. To complete the process in six months takes around 12 hours weekly, to do so in one year requires around six hours weekly, and to do so in two years takes around 3 hours weekly.
Two things: (1) they follow instructions and (2) they stay consistent. All we truly need from you is that you follow instructions and stay consistent. We’ll provide you with everything you need to learn Spanish well.
Yes. We do have a mobile app for our students that contains the audio files from the course and these can be used on the go. In addition both audio files and lesson plan PDF files can be downloaded for personal use. Our concern with on the go learning is related to focus and assimilation and each student is different. Some students need complete focus while others learn well in more complex environments.
Yes. We do sell them separately. Be advised that we do allow students to download PDF files of the lesson plans for personal use and printing as well as mp3 files of the audio teaching. These files are identical to what you would receive in hard-copy format that we produce for you.
The SpanishPower™ course consists of four levels: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert. Each level contains 12 lessons and each lesson contains six learning steps. We call this our Six-Step System. The six steps are:

Step 1. Pronunciation
Step 2. Vocabulary Building
Step 3. Structural Development
Step 4. Writing and Revision
Step 5. Vocabulary Reinforcement
Step 6. Paced Reading

Any given lesson will take four to five hours total to complete. Students in the six-month plan do two lessons weekly. Students in the one year plan do one lesson weekly and students in the two year plan do one lesson every two weeks.

You will learn to read, write, speak and understand well in Spanish. If you don’t develop all four of these skills you cannot truthfully say you learned the language well.
Yes, by the time you complete the course you’ll be able to conduct yourself in your line of business. This is a normal and expected result.
It is a drama and speech development technique that we use extensively in the course. It is technically called “neurological impress.” Essentially, it helps people learn to speak like people from other people groups with correct flow and accent.
We will gladly work with you to adjust the pace of the program to meet your specific needs. Due to life or work necessities, it is not unusual for a student to start out at one pace and then, either want to speed up, or need to slow down.
Our founder and CEO, Ricardo González, is the developer of the entire process. He is also the main teacher on the course materials.
Yes, we invite you to read Ricardo’s book entitled “The 12 Hidden Truths to Learning Spanish.”
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The goal of our program is to develop high level proficiency. We see SpanishPower™ as one course that is divided into four levels and our desire is to only accept students who have a desire to learn well. This is not a course for people who are looking to get by in personal and travel situations.
We are not a common market program selling to the masses. We are a school that works with and cares about our students and their success. All of our teachers are highly qualified and well trained. From a course process standpoint, our course is designed to get you to 80 to 90 percent of a native speaker. Rosetta Stone simply doesn’t contain the content or methodology necessary to get you to high levels of business proficiency even if you were able to master everything in the course on your own.
All Bilingual America Spanish teachers much have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, although we do our best to employ teachers with a Masters degree. Obviously, there are some really smart and sharp people who only finished University level due to life situations and we do not exclude them. They must also be at least 80 percent proficient in English to be able to effectively work with and instruct the student from the beginning of the process.

Our teachers must have excellent interpersonal communication skills and demonstrate a total mastery of our teaching processes before teaching a student. They must also demonstrate a high degree of punctuality as most of our clients take their time commitments very seriously. We also seek out teachers who have extensive real-life experience in both Latin America and the United States as these teachers are more well-rounded and capable of guiding our students better on cultural norms.
We administer all tutoring by telephone, voice only. We did extensive studies on this many years ago and conclusively learned the result in language training is nearly 30 percent better when administered in voice only than when in person on by video. This is because all non-verbal cues are stripped away and you must deal with language in its purest form, voice.
You schedule directly with your instructor on a weekly or session to session basis. We do not lock our students into a specific schedule over time as most students need the logistical flexibility to make things work.
For each four paid tutoring sessions, you get one cancellation or reschedule without penalty. This is true even if you simply weren’t able to advise your instructor of the change. Of course, our goal is to schedule well so we avoid cancellations and reschedules but we do understand that our client base is busy and from time to time things come up at the last moment. We don’t want to play judge and jury to “approve” or “disapprove” cancellations or reschedules so this way works well for everyone. If you cancel or reschedule more than one time for each four sessions, then you will forfeit that session.
¡Bienvenido o Bienvenida! We’re looking forward to helping you reach your language goals. All students are required to take our aptitude assessment and go through the course orientation before beginning. If you are a good fit for the school, we will invite you to go through the course orientation. You may then purchase the course. The entire on-boarding process takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Take the Free Aptitude Assessment to Get Started!
Once the order comes in you will receive an automated receipt and a welcome from our Director of Training, Dora Luz Mathurin. Dora will then get with you to assign your teacher and get you set up correctly to access the course materials here at BilingualAmerica.com. We do everything humanly possible to get new students started quickly in the program. If you order on a Saturday or Sunday, we’ll get you going on Monday but you will get access to your initial assignments immediately.
Certainly, we invoice and work with companies all the time. We would need both a Purchase Order Number and the name of the person approving the training. Be aware, however, that if your company is paying for you, we will supply them with reports regarding your progress in the course if they request them.
No. We are a school and our course process also includes one-on-one tutoring, bi-weekly group classes, quizzes, certification exams and support. Our course materials are the most comprehensive on the market but we do not want to turn them into a common market or independent program in that so few people can succeed without tutoring and support services.
If you are paying month to month, you can cancel at anytime, as we do not put our students under contract. Please keep in mind that we are a school and do maintain then the right to approve re-admission in the event you may want to come back at a future time.
If, after your second tutoring session, or within 30 days, whichever comes first, you determine that you don’t want to move forward, we’ll refund your money entirely. If you are in the month-to-month payment program, you can cancel at anytime and we won’t charge you again if you do so. If you pay the program up-front, and pass your initial refund policy time period, there are no refunds.