Daily Speaking Practice— for Spanish fluency

The Calistan Method

Onboarding Questionnaire

Let’s get started. This short questionnaire is designed to help us understand your goals, your current level of Spanish, and a few personal details that will help make your learning experience more engaging. Your responses will guide the creation of personalized study materials—so that what you practice is relevant, motivating, and tailored specifically to you. Don’t hold back—the more detail you share, the better.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Why and where do you want to speak Spanish?

Share what’s motivating you—travel, work, family, fun, or personal growth. If there’s a specific trip, job, or project, please describe. Try to identify where and with whom you might speak.

Share topics of interest and personal details.

Think about what you enjoy talking about—your hobbies, work, relationships, sports, food, travel, or anything else that matters to you. Also include a few people, places, pets, routines, or quirks from your daily life that could add color and humor to your learning experience. The details help us create content to connect personally, make you laugh, and bring Spanish to life.

How have you learned Spanish thus far?

Tell us briefly how and when you’ve studied or been exposed to Spanish—through school, apps, immersion, family, tutors, or anything else. Focus on recent and/or current study.

Do you know common verb tenses?

How comfortable you are using the present (hablo), preterite (hablé), imperfect (hablaba), future (hablaré), and conditional (hablaría)? List anything out of reach currently.

Do you know perfect tenses, participles?

These use haber plus a past participle (like he comido, había salido, habría dicho) to describe completed actions. Do you know how to form and use these structures confidently?

Do you know the subjunctive mood?

Can you form and use the subjunctive in both present (Espero que venga) and past forms (Si yo hubiera sabido)? Do you know when and how to use the subjunctive mood?

Do you know pronouns, placement?

Think about subject, object, and reflexive pronouns. Can you place them correctly before verbs (lo tengo), after infinitives (quiero verlo), or at the end of commands (dímelo)?

Describe your current ability to speak.

A1 means you can use basic, rehearsed phrases like greetings and introductions. A2 means you can handle simple tourist tasks like ordering food or asking for directions. B1 means you can manage short, familiar conversations. B2 means you can express yourself more freely and engage in light conversation. C1 means you understand nearly everything and speak fairly well, albeit with mistakes. C2 implies complete fluency.