Real, usable Spanish for the children and families you serve, from the first buenos días to a calm todo está bien.
Get the free First Stop guideNo perfect Spanish required. Just a few warm phrases you can use on Monday.
Build your VOICE so you can serve with GRACIAS.
When a child climbs your steps and does not understand a word of English, a warm buenos días changes everything. This course gives you those words, taught the way working people actually learn: say it out loud, use it the next day, and let confidence grow from doing.
You do not need to be fluent to make a child feel safe.
Each moment is a set of phrases you can say the same day you learn them.
Welcome each child
Welcome each child by name and start the ride warm.
Guide children
Guide children up the steps and into their seats, calmly.
Calm safety instructions
Settle a loud bus and give calm safety instructions.
Answer a parent
Answer a parent at the stop with respect and warmth.
Reassure a child
Reassure a child and stay steady when something is wrong.
One framework shapes what you say. The other tracks how far you have come.
Every phrase lives inside GRACIAS, the seven things a person does when they serve someone well, from the first hello to the last goodbye.
Greet · Recognize · Ask · Confirm · Inform · Assist · Send off
VOICE is how you watch your own progress climb. After each moment you rate yourself.
Vocabulary · Oral Practice · Interaction · Connection · Exchange
Start on your own, learn with a group, or bring it to your whole team.
Learn on your own
one year of access
Join a live class
self-paced course included
Bring it to your team
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Six pieces that work together, on the bus and at the stop.
Every phrase, written out with simple pronunciation.
A printable quick guide for your first week on the route.
Hear each phrase so you can say it with confidence.
Practice real route moments before you live them.
The twenty phrases on one card for your visor.
Proof of the Spanish you can now use at work.
Lisa Renea Shaw
Founder and Chief Language Specialist, My Other Tongue
Lisa Renea Shaw is a trilingual educator with native-like fluency in Spanish and more than 20 years in the classroom. She did not grow up speaking Spanish. She learned it, and she has spent her career helping others do the same, not by chasing perfect grammar, but by building the confidence to use real language in real moments. Through My Other Tongue, Lisa builds bilingual learning that working people can actually use. Her philosophy is simple: activation over perfection.
Straight answers before you start your first route.
The essential phrases for your first route, free.
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