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Stepping Stones Spanish
Spanish · Ages 6–14

The first Spanish learning system built for how kids actually learn.

Premium 1-on-1 Spanish instruction with native teachers. The Stepping Stones System keeps progress compounding between every class.

100%
Native Teachers
1:1
Dedicated Focus
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AI-powered Pre-Class Briefing
Today, 4:30 PM
Maestra Elena · Mary
Focus: Markets & preterite tense

Strong recall on travel vocabulary. Skip the warm-up review.

Hesitated on hacer in last week's transcript. Roleplay 5 min at a market.

A first in kids' Spanish

The first Spanish course built for kids that combines live 1-on-1 teaching with a companion app to reinforce every class, powered by AI.

1:1
Live teaching
App
Reinforces class
AI
Personalizes next class
The Stepping Stones System

A comprehensive Spanish learning system.

Live classes, daily practice, and AI personalization, working together so every class starts where the last one really ended.

01Live class

Live 1-on-1 classes

A dedicated native teacher each week. Every class is transcribed so nothing is forgotten between sessions.

02Reinforce

Reinforce in the companion app

The vocabulary, grammar, and themes from class show up in the app as short daily practice. The same material, a second time around.

03Personalize

AI personalization

Every class is transcribed and analyzed by AI to surface what your child struggled with. The teacher sees it before the next class and focuses there first.

The honest comparison

No one has ever become fluent from a little green owl on their phone, or in Spanish class at school.

Here's why the usual options keep falling short, and what we built instead.

The little green owl on the phone

Language learning apps

Designed to be addictive, not effective.

  • Built for streaks

    The product's job is to bring you back tomorrow, not to make you fluent.

  • No real conversation

    You tap pictures of fruit. You don't actually speak with a person.

  • No teacher, no feedback

    Mistakes get a red X. No one explains why or fixes the habit.

  • Generic curriculum

    The same path for a 6-year-old and a 40-year-old.

Spanish at school

School class

30 kids, one teacher, one curriculum. Not enough.

  • Class of 30

    Your child gets a few minutes of real attention per week, at best.

  • Pace of the slowest

    Lessons move at the pace the whole class can handle.

  • Worksheets & quizzes

    Heavy on grammar drills, light on actual speaking.

  • Distractions everywhere

    Phones, side conversations, half the room tuned out.

Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones

1-on-1 with a native teacher, personalized by AI.

  • 100% one-on-one

    Every minute of class is your child speaking with a native teacher.

  • AI that listens to class

    Every class transcript is analyzed to spot what your child struggled with, so the teacher can focus there next time.

  • Speaking from day one

    Confidence first. Grammar slides in through real conversation.

  • A real path to fluency

    A continuous system, not scattered lessons that go nowhere.

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Programs by age

A different program for every stage of childhood.

Calibrated to attention span, motivation, and grammar readiness. Not a one-size curriculum stretched across all ages.

Portrait representing the Early Learners program
Ages 6–8

Early Learners

30-min classes

Visual, conversational sessions built for short attention spans. Confidence first, speaking before reading, play before grammar.

  • Visual-first

    Big imagery, gestures, and props. Almost zero reading required.

  • Confidence first

    Five-minute mini-missions so wins come quickly and often.

  • Joyful repetition

    Songs and games circle back so vocabulary sticks without drilling.

Portrait representing the Young Pioneers program
Ages 9–11

Young Pioneers

45-min classes

The age where speaking aloud takes off. Roleplay scenarios, reading challenges, and grammar introduced through stories, never as drills.

  • Conversation-led

    Real scenarios: at the market, with friends, on a trip.

  • Story spine

    Each unit follows an arc, kids care what happens next.

  • Gentle grammar

    Verb tenses introduced in context, reinforced in the app.

Portrait representing the Confident Communicators program
Ages 12–14

Confident Communicators

60-min classes

Longer, deeper sessions for older students. Conversations move into the topics teens actually care about, with the range and nuance to keep up in real Spanish.

  • Confident conversation

    Hold their own in real back-and-forth, not scripted exchanges.

  • Topics that matter

    Music, sports, school life, travel, the things they want to talk about.

  • Real-world Spanish

    Slang, idioms, and how people actually speak, not just the textbook.

A vintage globe centered on the Americas, symbolizing global citizenship through language
The fluency window
Ages 6–14

The years when true fluency is still effortless — and an accent indistinguishable from a native speaker is still possible.

Why Spanish, why now

Set your child up to be a global citizen.

Spanish opens your child's world to over 600 million speakers across more than 20 countries — at work, in travel, in friendships, and in everyday life in the U.S. Learning it young gives them more than a second language. It gives them a wider lens on the world, and the confidence to move through it.

600M+
Spanish speakers worldwide
A passport to 20+ countries across the Americas and Europe.
1 in 5
Americans speak Spanish
More friendships, more communities, more daily opportunities.
+11%
Average bilingual salary lift
Spanish is the most-requested second language by U.S. employers.

Travel that goes deeper

Order, negotiate, joke, and connect like a local — not like a tourist with a phrasebook.

Career options that expand

Healthcare, law, business, tech, education — every field rewards the people who can speak with twice as many clients.

A native-like accent, only possible young

Pronunciation is the one skill adults rarely recover. Kids absorb sounds effortlessly that adult learners spend years chasing.

A lifelong cognitive edge

Bilingual children show stronger memory, focus, and problem-solving — benefits that compound through school and beyond.

Pricing

A complete system, on your schedule.

Choose how many classes per week, and pick times that fit your family's rhythm — mornings before school, afternoons, or evenings. Live classes, the companion app, and AI personalization all work together as one connected program. Cancel any time, no contracts.

Program
4 classes / month1 class per week
Most popular8 classes / month2 classes per week
12 classes / month3 classes per week
Ages 6–8
30-min classes
$150
per month
$250
per month
$350
per month
Ages 9–11
45-min classes
$200
per month
$350
per month
$450
per month
Ages 12–14
60-min classes
$250
per month
$450
per month
$550
per month
Included with every plan:Live native teacherUnlimited companion appAI-personalized classesFlexible weekly scheduling
See it for yourself

Try a class for free and see the system in action.

The best way to understand how it works is to experience it. Hop on a call with us, we'll walk you through the program, your child takes a real demo lesson, and we wrap up by answering anything you want to know.

1. We meet the parent

We start with a short call to learn about your child and walk you through how the live classes, companion app, and AI personalization fit together.

2. Your child takes a demo lesson

Your child jumps into a real 25-minute class with a native teacher — not a sales pitch, an actual lesson so you can see the system in action.

3. We answer your questions

After the lesson, we hop back on with you to share what we saw, talk through next steps, and answer anything still on your mind.

Prefer to ask first?

Email us at hello@steppingstones.es and a real human writes back.

Book the free class

Takes about 90 seconds.

No card. No commitment.