For professionals in Barcelona whose English is holding back a career that deserves better.
It's not your English. It's how you were taught it. And we can fix that.
Find out what's blocking you →Founding cohort · Maximum 10 places
Sound familiar?
Language academies never gave you what you needed to speak. So you assumed you were the problem. You weren't.
3 minutes · Free · Personalised results
Why this works
Picture the meeting you've been preparing for in your head. This time, when they ask your opinion, the words come. Not carefully constructed, not translated. Just out.
That's not about knowing more English. You've been studying for years. The knowledge was never the problem.
Language academies teach English the way you'd teach someone to drive by handing them a book about roads. Useful, up to a point. The gap between knowing and doing, under real pressure, in real time, is something they almost never close.
SPARK closes it. Using the same principles that make immersion work, combined with structured deliberate practice, using the English your career actually needs: real meetings, real negotiations, real conversations. Not textbook exercises.
Daniel Smith
19 years teaching · 18 countries
6 languages · 4 self-taught
My French teacher said so when I was thirteen. I took it as fact and carried it for the next decade.
Then I spent ten days in Senegal. On the last day, a boy I was staying with told me I could speak his language, Wolof. I had no idea. My brain had been learning in secret, without a classroom, a textbook, or a teacher. That one moment reversed a belief I had held for ten years.
I've done it four more times since, deliberately, using the same principles I now teach. Four languages self-taught from nothing, no classroom, no teacher. Wolof was the first.
I spent years working out why it happened, and why it never happened in a classroom. The science existed. It had been there for decades. It just never made it into the industry, because slow progress is more profitable than fast results.
I taught inside that system long enough to see it clearly. A Director of Studies once pulled me aside: "I know your activities are designed with the students' best interests at heart. But could you just do less of them?" That was the moment I understood what the industry actually optimises for. It wasn't fluency.
SPARK is what I built instead. Not a course. A methodology, the same one I've used with professionals in Barcelona, India, and Japan, across different languages and careers. The speaking problem is always the same. So is the fix.
Real clients, real transformations
Mohammad, Client-facing professional
All his working life, Mohammad had stayed silent in meetings: not because he lacked knowledge, but because he lacked confidence in his spoken English. Two months in, a friend's wife heard two voice notes side by side, one from week one and one from month two, and couldn't believe it was the same person.
"This program gave me the tools to master the English language independently. I achieved fluency and neutralized my accent in only two months."
Read the full storyMaria, Psychologist, Catalonia
From fourteen years of study and still unable to speak, to using English confidently every day.
"Before, I struggled with feelings of frustration and insecurity towards English. Being actively involved in the learning process without judgment led to an incredible change in me. I feel proud because improvement is possible."
Not just Barcelona. Not just English.
Mattias, Japanese
"Daniel gave me great ideas on how to improve my learning methods, so that I can learn faster with less effort. He suggests ideas based on his experience that are tailored to you."
Mattias is Estonian and lives in Japan. He worked with me to build his Japanese speaking ability and recently landed a job as a gym instructor, where he teaches clients in Japanese every day. Not English. Japanese. The method works regardless of which language you're trying to activate.
Is this for you?
This is for you if
This is not for you if
The programme
SPARK is structured around how change actually happens, not how it's easiest to sell.
Weeks 1–2
Diagnose the real problem, not just the symptoms
We identify exactly what's preventing you from speaking: your habits, your gaps, and where needed, the beliefs holding you back. Then we begin using the English you already have in structured practice built around your professional context.
Weeks 3–4
The meeting you've been avoiding? Now you're leading it
High-stakes workplace simulations. Real meetings, presentations and conversations with international partners, all practised until the language becomes automatic. Structured feedback loops that change behaviour, not just confidence.
Months 2–3
English that works without thinking about it
Ongoing support and accountability as you integrate everything into your working life. This is where the results compound and where most programmes simply stop. You get lifetime access to the community and ongoing coaching is an option.
What's included
1:1 Coaching
Three private sessions, personalised to your professional context and specific speaking challenges.
Small Cohort
Group sessions with a carefully selected cohort of peers in similar professional roles. Real accountability, real practice partners.
In-Person Events
At least two in-person sessions in the Barcelona area. Because speaking confidence is built face to face.
I run this with a maximum of 10 professionals. Your results depend on being surrounded by people who are equally serious about their own results.
The problem probably isn't your English. It's your setup.
You'll get a personalised score across 10 speaking habits, with a clear breakdown of what's holding you back. If SPARK is the right fit, I'll offer you a call personally. Either way, you'll walk away knowing exactly what to work on.
3 minutes. Free. Immediate results.
SPARK is a high-investment programme. That's intentional. The result has to be worth it.
Money-back guarantee
Complete all sessions and daily practice for 4 weeks. If I can't show you measurable improvement in your speaking, you get a full refund. No questions.
