How Week2Speak teaches English
Week2Speak gets Spanish speakers saying real English sentences from the first day, with a tutor who speaks Spanish and short daily practice in between.
Why we start with speaking
Many Spanish speakers study English for years at school and still freeze when they have to speak. They have learned about English but have rarely produced it. Week2Speak reverses the order: you say a sentence first, then look at the grammar that came up in what you said.
The method
- Speak from day one. On Day 1 you build five true sentences about yourself and say them out loud. Researchers such as Merrill Swain argue that producing language is what shows learners the gaps in what they know (comprehensible output).
- Task first, grammar after. Each lesson and call starts with a real task, like ordering in a café, and corrections come from your own sentences. This follows task-based teaching (Willis's framework).
- Little and often. Lessons are 12 minutes or less, and sentences you learned come back on later days. Reviews of the research find spaced repetition helps vocabulary stick (systematic review, 2026).
- Mistakes from Spanish, fixed in Spanish. The feedback targets the errors Spanish grammar causes, explained with the Spanish pattern behind them. See the 15 most common.
Who is behind Week2Speak
Week2Speak was started by an English tutor who speaks Spanish, Portuguese and English, together with a partner who builds the practice tools. It is in testing, in English, with a free founding cohort of ten learners. A Spanish version of the site comes next.