The Resident Program · Condesa / Roma, Mexico City
You moved to Mexico City. Your Spanish didn't.
Follow a level-matched sequence instead of assembling your Spanish week by week. The Resident Program gives you six class hours, one included La Mesa session, and a group capped at six. Choose a current morning, evening, or Saturday-compatible schedule. Tuition is month to month, and the first week is protected by a full-refund guarantee.
What this can look like
Choose your starting point. See what changes.
What you'll be able to do, and roughly when — in observable moments, not level codes.
Start an everyday exchange, answer the follow-up question, and repair when you miss part of the reply.
The moment you noticeThe reply comes back faster than you expected — and you keep going instead of switching to English.
Hold an everyday conversation, make plans, tell a simple story, and stay in Spanish through ordinary mistakes.
The moment you noticeFriends visit. You run the table and keep the evening moving.
Handle a wider range of daily admin and social conversation, and recover with less visible effort.
The moment you noticeA whole dinner passes without anyone simplifying the story for you.
Reactivate what you knew, retrieve it faster, and connect sentences with less translating in your head.
The moment you noticeYou stop rehearsing the sentence before you say it.
Handle everyday conversation with more range: past events, plans, preferences, and the repairs in between.
The moment you noticeA conversation goes somewhere you didn't plan for, and you follow it.
Participate across different voices and speeds, with cleaner self-correction and fewer avoided structures.
The moment you noticeYou disagree with someone, in Spanish, and hold your ground.
Familiar language arrives faster, turns hold longer, and recurring errors become easier to catch and repair.
The moment you noticeYou finish the story before somebody rescues it in English.
Tell past events with more control, defend an opinion, repair yourself without abandoning the sentence, and stay active in a faster group conversation.
The moment you noticeYour friends stop waiting for the simplified version of what you mean.
Participate across different voices and speeds with more range, cleaner repairs, and less searching for familiar language.
The moment you noticeYou leave dinner and realise nobody treated you like the Spanish learner at the table.
These are program targets at the standard Resident pace of 7.5 guided hours a week: six class hours plus one included La Mesa session. They are not individual guarantees; starting point, attendance, assigned work, and the Spanish used between sessions affect the result. More contact can help a learner move faster, but it does not create a guaranteed date.
The program
Your next eight weeks of Spanish are already planned.
You never pick the next topic, wonder what to review, or rebuild a study plan on Sunday night. Each block already knows what enters, what returns, and what the work is building toward.
Before day one — start in the right place
The trial class or pre-arrival placement establishes what the group can assume and where the work should begin.
Each session follows a planned sequence.
Earlier material returns first. New language is added deliberately, then used with what came before. Patterns that still break are corrected, tried again, and brought back later.
What needs work comes back
When a pattern keeps causing trouble, the teacher brings it into later sessions and asks for another attempt. Correction becomes practice — not a comment you hear once and forget.
Week eight — see what changed
Review what you can now do, what still breaks under pressure, and what the next block should build.
The full method — retrieve, build, produce, repair, return — is on the Method page.
Current schedules
Choose the time window you can keep.
Morning, evening, and Saturday-compatible options follow the same Resident curriculum. Pick the current schedule that fits your week.
Evenings + Saturday
Mon / Wed 19:00–21:00 + Sat 10:00–12:00
Built for people who work during the day. Finished by nine; Saturday closes the week.
Next start: 3 AugustWeekday mornings
Tue / Thu / Fri 09:30–11:30
For flexible schedules, freelancers, and US-East-coast workdays that start at noon. Done before lunch.
Next start: 3 AugustBoth schedules carry the same sequence and the same group cap. New cohorts start the first Monday of each month — the next is Monday 3 August.
The membership
What your monthly membership includes.
Tuition is billed monthly. The curriculum is organised in eight-week blocks.
Your place in a level-matched group
A programmed Foundations or Plateau route in a group capped at six.
Six class hours each week
The same weekly rhythm follows the block's sequence instead of resetting by topic.
One La Mesa seat each week
A level-matched speaking session is included. Booking is required, unused sessions do not roll over, and additional sessions are 450 MXN when capacity permits.
A review every eight weeks
Review what changed, what still breaks under pressure, and what the next block should build.
Foundations & Plateau
One membership. Two different routes.
Foundations builds Spanish from zero. Plateau gets existing Spanish moving again. They share the Resident membership, schedule choices, six-person cap, included La Mesa seat, and eight-week review. The curriculum and objective are different.
Starting from zero — or starting over
Foundations
Build an everyday conversational range through explicit instruction, cumulative practice, and material that keeps returning. Around month four is the first major target on the standard pace.
See Foundations →I understand more than I can say
Plateau
Work on retrieval speed, control under pressure, and the recurring errors that survived earlier study. The first visible change comes inside the first block.
See the Plateau route →Want more than the standard week?
Resident starts at 7.5 guided hours a week. We can build it to 20.
+ 1 included 90-minute La Mesa session
= 7.5 guided hours in the standard week
The standard Resident workload is a complete program. It is not the maximum VERBO can provide.
When your deadline, available time, or goal justifies 3–4 guided hours a day, we build on top of the core. The added time may go toward:
- more explicit structure work
- controlled practice
- longer speaking turns
- listening across different voices
- pronunciation
- targeted private correction
- additional La Mesa sessions
- guided use outside class
Three ways to build on the core
More structure and correction
Use targeted private work when one recurring problem, professional situation, or deadline needs concentrated attention.
More speaking volume
Add La Mesa or guided production when the next need is more turns, more voices, and more recovery.
A complete 20-hour week
Combine the programmed core with the types of work your level, goal, and available window justify.
You choose how much time you can give. VERBO decides how to use it well.
Guarantee & tuition
Try the first week with a full-refund guarantee.
Attend the first three classes. If the level, teacher, or format is wrong, tell VERBO by Sunday and the month is refunded in full.
| Plan | Price | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | 8,500 MXN≈ US$490 · charged in MXN | Month to month. Stop at the end of any paid month. Rate locked while continuously enrolled. |
| Quarterly | 23,700 MXN≈ US$1,350 · charged in MXN | Three prepaid months. Save 1,800 MXN. |
Card, transfer, or cash. Prices are the total payable amount, in MXN.
Resident Program questions
How long do I need to commit?
Tuition is month to month — stop at the end of any paid month. The curriculum runs in programmed eight-week blocks, but there is no lock-in. Quarterly prepay is optional at 23,700 MXN, and your monthly rate stays locked while you remain continuously enrolled.
Is 7.5 guided hours a week enough to make progress?
It is designed to be — six structured class hours with correction, one guided speaking session, and the city in between. On this pace, the program targets an everyday conversational range around month four from zero. If you have a real deadline, a targeted private hour or a second La Mesa session adds contact where placement says it will help.
How does the included La Mesa seat work?
Your membership includes one La Mesa seat per week. Booking is required, unused sessions don't roll over, and the session has to fit your level and available schedule. Additional sessions are 450 MXN when capacity permits.
What happens if the level is wrong?
With six people, a misplacement is caught within the first sessions, and moving you to a better-matched group is a WhatsApp message, not a bureaucratic event. If nothing fits in week one, the guarantee applies: tell us by Sunday and the month is refunded in full.
Can I join if I already have some Spanish?
Yes — that's what placement is for. Old classroom grammar, app streaks, or fragments that never became usable point to a specific place inside Foundations; comprehension that outruns your speaking points to Plateau. The trial class settles it.
Do you run advanced groups?
Not as standing groups yet. Past upper-intermediate, what usually helps is volume and range — La Mesa and private instruction cover that. When there is enough level-matched demand for an advanced group, we open one.
Can I study more than the standard Resident schedule?
Yes. Resident begins with six programmed class hours plus one included 90-minute La Mesa session each week. When your time or deadline justifies more, VERBO can build the workload up to 20 guided hours using the kinds of practice your Spanish needs next.
The next group starts Monday 3 August.
Six seats per group. When a group fills, the next one opens the following month — we do not add a seventh chair.