Private Spanish lessons pair you with one native-speaking Spanish tutor for 80 minutes a week, working from a plan built around your level, your goals, and the parts of the language you find hardest. You can take them at our Costa Mesa institute on Anton Boulevard, online from wherever you are, or at your own home or office if that is easier. Lessons are coordinated with your own schedule rather than a fixed class timetable, so you are not waiting on the next term to begin.
A package of eight private lessons costs $800, plus a one-time $50 registration fee for new students. That works out to $100 for each 80-minute session with a credentialed tutor who speaks Spanish natively. Tell us what you need and we will match you with an instructor, without sending you through the group class signup first.
The Institute has taught in Southern California for over twenty years and works with more than 3,000 students a year. Here is what students say about learning with us.
$800 for eight lessons
Eight 80-minute sessions at $100 each, plus a one-time $50 registration fee for new students.
Native-speaking tutors
Credentialed tutors drawn from a roster of more than seventy, matched to your level and your goals.
Costa Mesa, with parking
600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B, next to South Coast Plaza and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
How a Private Spanish Lesson Works
We sell private lessons in packages of eight 80-minute sessions. Students already enrolled in one of our group classes can book individual lessons instead of a full package, which is the usual arrangement for someone who wants concentrated work on one weak point before a trip or an exam.
Your tutor sets the curriculum after talking with you about where you are and what you want to do with the language. A student preparing to move to Mexico City spends their time differently than a nurse who needs to take patient histories in Spanish, and neither of them has to sit through material they already know. Every one of those 80 minutes goes to one student’s gaps.
When One-on-One Makes More Sense Than a Class
Group classes suit most students well, and capped at fifteen they stay small enough that everyone gets to speak. Private Spanish tutoring is what we reach for whenever the group schedule does not fit, whatever the reason, so a student of any age, level or goal still has a way in.
Uneven knowledge is the most common reason students move to private instruction. Someone who grew up hearing Spanish at home may speak comfortably but read slowly, and no single class level fits that profile. Students working toward something specific also do better one-on-one, because a private sequence can be built backward from a date or a task rather than forward through a standard syllabus. Privacy matters to some students as well, particularly professionals who would rather not practice in front of colleagues.
Semi-Private Spanish Lessons
Semi-private lessons are the option when you want to share the sessions with someone working at a similar level, which suits couples preparing for the same trip, coworkers who need the same workplace vocabulary, or a parent and child learning together. The curriculum still gets built around the people in the room rather than a fixed syllabus, and the cost per student comes down because the instructor’s time is shared. Call (714) 662-5400 to arrange one and to confirm Spanish tutor availability.
What Private Spanish Lessons Cost
Eight private lessons cost $800, and new students pay a one-time $50 registration fee. That package is the usual starting point rather than a fixed product, so tell us if a different number of sessions or a different lesson length fits your goals better, and semi-private lessons bring the cost per student down again.
A group Spanish class runs $245 for an eight-week term and meets for 80 minutes a week alongside up to fourteen other students, so the private rate reflects an instructor’s full attention and a curriculum written for one person. Our pricing for group, private, and corporate programs lists every option side by side.
Who Your Spanish Tutor Will Be
Our roster runs to more than seventy instructors across the languages we offer, and Spanish tutoring comes from native speakers whose English is strong enough to explain grammar in the language you understand best. We hire for teaching credentials or advanced degrees alongside real classroom experience, because explaining why a sentence takes the subjunctive asks more of an instructor than fluency alone. Private students work from the same university texts our group classes use, with the sequence rearranged to suit one learner.
The Institute has taught in Southern California for over twenty years and works with more than 3,000 students a year. A roster that size is what makes one-on-one scheduling practical, because your lesson time does not have to fit around a single instructor’s class load.
Spanish Tutoring for Children and Teenagers
Private lessons are open to students of any age, which makes them the usual route for a child younger than our group class minimum or a teenager who needs support alongside school Spanish. Our Little Lingual children’s classes cover ages 6 to 12, but they form when enough children enroll rather than every term, so private lessons are the dependable route for a younger student. Two or three children at a similar level can share a semi-private lesson, which brings the cost per student down.
Where Lessons Happen
Most students meet their instructor at our institute at 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B in Costa Mesa, where there is parking on site. Lessons also run online, which suits anyone whose commute or schedule makes a weekly drive difficult, and we can send an instructor to your home or office instead. Tell us which format you want when you get in touch.
Students come to us from across the county, including Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Tustin, Anaheim, Fountain Valley, and Orange. The online option puts the same instructors within reach wherever you happen to be.
Start Private Spanish Lessons
Send us the form below and the office will take it from there. Someone reads every inquiry, talks through your level, your goals and the times you can meet, then matches you with an instructor who fits and confirms the schedule with you. Nothing is booked or charged at this stage, so you are free to ask what you like first.
If you would rather talk it through, call (714) 662-5400 Monday through Thursday from 10:30am to 9:00pm and Friday from 10:30am to 2:30pm, or email info@oclanguages.com. Students who already know what they want can go straight to the private lesson registration and payment form, and anyone still weighing the two formats can check the Spanish group class schedule.
Common Questions
Answers to what students ask most before booking. Call (714) 662-5400 if yours is not here.
At the Orange County Lingual Institute, eight 80-minute private lessons cost $800, which works out to $100 a session, plus a one-time $50 registration fee for new students. Students already enrolled in a group class can buy lessons individually rather than in a package of eight.
Our programs are built around one 80-minute session a week and about fifteen minutes of homework a night, and students who hold to that pattern move steadily into more advanced material. Private lessons can move faster than a class because no part of the session goes to material you already know, though the nightly practice still does most of the work.
Yes. Students in a class can book individual lessons rather than a package of eight, which is a common way to work through one sticking point without leaving the class.
At our institute at 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B in Costa Mesa, next to South Coast Plaza and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, with parking on site. Lessons can also be held online or at your own home or office, so the format is yours to pick. The office can arrange a time by phone Monday through Thursday from 10:30am to 9:00pm and Friday from 10:30am to 2:30pm.
Yes. Private Spanish lessons run online as well as in person, with the same instructors and the same curriculum built around one student. Online suits people whose work or commute makes a fixed weekly drive hard to keep, and you can start online and move to in-person later.
Yes. Our teaching staff covers eighteen languages, and we can schedule private lessons in most of them. The language programs overview lists what we currently teach.