Frankie and Zaira San Martin

Hello, we are Frankie and Zaira San Martin and we are excited to be teaching Spanish together for this BVC school year. We have been married for 12 years and have 3 young kiddos that keep us really busy. Frankie was born in south Texas just 10 minutes away from the border with Mexico. He works full time as a pastor at Highland Baptist Church and he oversees their community programs including ESL. Zaira is originally from Mexico and her first language is Spanish. She majored in Spanish and has a heart to help and nurture the students' curiosity for a new language. It is our goal to equip students and encourage them to start their journey in speaking and reading Spanish.

8th-12th: Introduction to Spanish

My hope for this Spanish class is to introduce Spanish language to students starting with basic level knowledge, grammatical rules and with an emphasis in phonetics. Spanish pronunciation can be a challenge, so there will be unit study focuses on new phonetic sounds....

9th-12th: Spanish 2

My hope for this Spanish class is to reinforce and continue the material from Spanish 1. During this course, students will be introduced to conjugation of verbs so that they practice talking and carrying a conversation in Spanish. We will also focus more on creating...