About Us

My name is Slade, founder of The Spanish Academy in South Africa. 27 years ago I started the Spanish Academy teaching a methodology that has been giving my students enormous delight. Our intimate Spanish classes allow beginners the opportunity to learn conversational Spanish and make traveling to South America, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking countries so much more exhilarating as you travel to the most beautiful countries.

If you want to know how we teach Spanish in South Africa and want to get started on your Spanish lessons on a solid foundation that will truly release your potential.

Anna Calvete is from Spain. Her authentic Spanish accent will have incalculable value for your ear training. Anna is also the head of the prestigious British international schools Spanish Department in Johannesburg since 2013. As soon as she identifies your specific weakness, she will immediately intervene and transmute any weakness into a strength- Anna will provide the navigational charts to get you over the waters to reach far distant shores that very few have frequented.

Cristian is also from Spain and his authentic Spanish accent will also have incalculable value for your ear training. He is a prodigious teacher with an inimitable style. He will provide you with the combination to open up the vault of your genius potential in becoming a prolific speaker-student.

Javier is from Argentina and his Authentic accent will have incalculable value for your ear training too.
Javier provides his students with the solution so that the disentanglement of the language can be achieved with expedience surpassing all of his students’ expectations.

Ineke in her illustrious career has been the official translator of the Chilean president and government. Ineke has completed her master’s degree in linguistics and is a prolific teacher with an insatiable enthusiasm for guiding her students to have conversational generosity / academic proficiency in Spanish.
The delight that all my staff receives in their student’s success is infinitely greater than the delight the students feel by having that success.

Adriana is from Spain and her authentic Spanish accent will have incalculable value for your ear training. Adriana is a lecturer at The University of Pretoria. She is a prodigious teacher with an inimitable style. She will provide you with the combination to open up the vault of your genius potential in becoming a prolific speaker- student. Adriana is also the coordinator, examiner, and trainer for the most internationally recognized DELE examination and works in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain.