Toucan Spanish School

Experiencia fantástica: Visité la escuela durante dos semanas: una semana en la clase de Diana y una semana en la clase de Juanse. Me gustaron mucho los dos profesores. Diana es muy amable y su clase es divertida. En su clase hablamos mucho, y eso fue muy útil para mí. En la clase de Juanse aprendí nueva gramática. Disfruté mucho mi tiempo en la escuela.

Experiencia negativa: Took two weeks of courses , which was my first introduction to Spanish as I never had studied it earlier. First week was OK. Second week we were too many in the class, move too quick for some of us which were completely beginners. They didn't even try to change the plan (which they didn't really tell us about either) to help us that we're struggling but instead we did an hour of B1/B2 stuff that went way over our head. Bunch of other stuff which we have no use for. Teacher constantly running late by 5-10 min . Break of 30min is minimum 40 and even had a break of 1h.. The Fridays is not even classes but a field activity (if the group decides , if you don't but the group want then you'll have to go ) which is ok but it doesn't really teach you anything ; "you'll practise and get immersed into the Colombian culture " - I had rather do the class that I paid for . cannot recommend

Experiencia fantástica: Had an amazing time in my 8 weeks of classes at Toucan! I came in with a very basic level in Spanish and left feeling comfortable talking about just about anything! My teachers Sara, Juanse and Moisés were amazing, not just great teachers but I feel like I've made new friends! I'd definitely recommend Toucan!

Experiencia positiva: My boyfriend and I only had a few free days during our week in Poblado so we decided to opt for the private couple lessons. Our lessons with Mariana were excellent, we loved her teaching style and she was so patient, helpful, and organized. Those lessons really helped me to get more comfortable speaking. Unfortunately we had a disappointing experience with our last day of lessons. To start, there was a small scheduling mishap which they were able to fix. When we arrived on the day of the lesson, the teacher and room had been changed from what they told us, but no one had communicated it to us so we waited outside and eventually went up to the office to be led to the correct room, causing our lesson to start late. I’m really sorry to say but the lesson quality was also very poor and a waste of our time and money. We actually thought about leaving mid lesson. The teacher didn’t ask us what we wanted to practice, had no activities or lesson planned, and talked about random things that aren’t relevant for us to learn or vocabulary that we have already learned from studying Spanish in school for 4+ years (e.g. numbers…) It honestly felt like he was just trying to kill time and we ended the class early because he ran out of things to talk about. We were really confused and disappointed and found it to be a discouraging day in our learning journey. I would have preferred if they just canceled and refunded our last day of lessons since our original teacher wasn’t available. I wanted to reach out to the school directly to discuss this but could only locate the enrollment team number who just told me to wait for a feedback form that I haven’t received. Communication, organization, and teaching consistency could be improved.

Experiencia positiva: My experience with Toucan Spanish School overall was good. This is particularly thanks to my experience in the classes with Moises who was an incredibly charismatic person and a great teacher. I really enjoyed his style of teaching of analysing songs and videos to learn new vocabulary and grammar points. Luckily, I was in a relatively small group of students which meant we had lots of opportunities to talk and Moises listened to our recommendations for what we wanted to learn. By the end of the two weeks I felt like my Spanish had progressed really well. The downside was that the school itself felt quite disorganised. It didn't feel like the placement test we completed was used effectively as the first day we had a large class of very varied abilities which was eventually filtered but meant that we lost the first hour or two of teaching. Likewise, the Monday of our second week was a holiday and it was not communicated to the students that there was a timetable change meaning some students arrived late missing part of the class and would have attended the school on Monday had the information not been communicated through word of mouth of other students.