REVIVE BEFORE YOU GO™

You’ve studied Spanish. Now get ready to actually use it.

 

A practical Spanish prep experience for students heading abroad.

Build the confidence to understand, respond, connect, and handle everyday life in Spanish—before you get there.

GET READY TO GO

Designed for students who already have some Spanish and want to feel more prepared to actually speak it abroad.

You got into the program. You booked the flight.

But are you ready for the Spanish?

You may have taken Spanish for years.

You can probably read a menu. Conjugate verbs. Understand your professor.

But then someone speaks to you quickly, you don’t catch everything, and suddenly the words you know disappear.

That’s different.

Revive Before You Go™ helps bridge the gap between the Spanish you’ve studied and the Spanish you’ll actually need when you’re living abroad.

Not more worksheets.

Not another grammar course.

Real Spanish. Real situations. Real speaking practice.

So when you arrive, you’re more ready to participate in your experience—not just observe it.

REVIVE MY SPANISH

The problem isn’t that you don’t know Spanish.

You need practice accessing it in real time.

Study abroad moves fast.

Someone asks you a follow-up question.

The waiter says something you weren’t expecting.

Your host family tells you something from the other room.

You need to explain what happened.

You’re buying something and need a different size.

Your friends change the plan.

You missed part of what someone said—but the conversation keeps moving.

Those are the moments Revive Before You Go™ prepares you for.

 

You’ll practice how to:

LISTEN → PROCESS → RESPOND → RECOVER

Because successful communication isn’t about understanding every word.

It’s about knowing how to keep going.

INTRODUCING...

REVIVE BEFORE YOU GO™

BRING BACK THE SPANISH YOU ALREADY KNOW. 

PREPARE FOR THE MOMENTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN ABROAD.

Revive Before You Go™ focuses on practical communication and situations you’re likely to encounter while living, studying, traveling, eating, shopping, socializing, and exploring. 

01 | DON’T BLANK

Get the Basics Back

Reactivate the Spanish you already know and build strategies for those moments when your mind suddenly goes blank.

Practice asking for clarification, buying yourself time, repairing misunderstandings, and keeping a conversation going.

02 | MEET PEOPLE

Talk About Yourself

Introduce yourself naturally and talk about your interests, hometown, university, studies, family, plans, and experiences.

Because some of the most important conversations abroad start with:

“¿De dónde eres?”

03 | TALK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

Say More With the Spanish You Know

Go beyond memorized answers.

Practice describing people, places, experiences, plans, preferences, problems, and what’s happening around you.

04 | SHOP & HANDLE EVERYDAY ERRANDS

Make Purchases

Sizes. Prices. Returns. Payment. Recommendations. Questions.

Practice navigating stores and everyday transactions without immediately switching to English.

05 | EAT, ORDER & CONNECT

Get food without panicking

Restaurants and cafés are about much more than memorizing food vocabulary.

Practice ordering, asking questions, understanding responses, handling problems, making conversation, and navigating the rhythm of eating out.

06 | GET OUT & LIVE THERE

Navigate Life Abroad

Navigate your city, make plans, talk about neighborhoods, transportation, nightlife, hotels, meetups, and the spontaneous situations that come with actually living abroad.

Because the goal isn't just to go somewhere.

It's to feel increasingly comfortable being there.

This isn’t Spanish class.

It’s rehearsal for your life abroad.

You’ve already spent years learning vocabulary and grammar.

Revive Before You Go™ gives you something different:

a place to practice using what you know before the stakes feel real.

Expect practical activities such as:

  • listening to Spanish and responding without a script
  • recording a voicemail or voice message
  • ordering and reacting to follow-up questions
  • asking for something you need
  • buying a gift or making a purchase
  • explaining a problem
  • navigating misunderstandings
  • starting and sustaining conversations
  • hearing different ways people might respond
  • practicing what to say when you don’t understand

The goal is not perfect Spanish.

The goal is more confident, capable Spanish.

And yes—the Spanish you hear abroad may sound different.

Especially if you're heading to Spain.

You may encounter different vocabulary, accents, expressions, pronunciation, rhythms, and cultural habits than the Spanish you heard in your U.S. classroom.

Revive Before You Go™ helps you tune your ear—and understand more of the language and the life around it.

You'll encounter practical language and cultural context connected to everyday experiences, with destination-specific guidance where it matters.

Going somewhere other than Spain?

The core communication skills transfer anywhere Spanish is spoken, with attention to regional differences rather than pretending Spanish sounds the same everywhere.

You’re not preparing for a test.

You’re preparing for moments you’ll remember.

Ordering your first café con leche.

Understanding a joke.

Talking with your host family over dinner.

Asking someone where they bought their shoes.

Figuring out what went wrong at the train station.

Meeting people you never would have met if you hadn't tried speaking Spanish.

Discovering a neighborhood you didn't know existed.

Realizing halfway through a conversation:

Wait. I’m actually doing this.

Those moments are why this matters.

Built around speaking—not perfection.

Revive Before You Go™ combines flexible preparation with opportunities to actually practice.

SELF-PACED PREP

Work through practical, focused material on your own schedule before departure.

REAL-WORLD PRACTICE

Apply what you're learning through listening, speaking, and scenario-based challenges instead of simply reviewing vocabulary.

LIVE CONVERSATION

Practice responding in real time in a supportive environment—where it's completely okay to hesitate, ask someone to repeat themselves, make a mistake, and try again.

Because confidence doesn’t come from knowing that you could say something.

It comes from having already said it.

Your study-abroad experience starts before the plane takes off.

You have a limited amount of time abroad.

The first few weeks shouldn't be spent waiting for your Spanish confidence to catch up with you.

Revive Before You Go™ helps you arrive more ready to:

Speak up.

Stay in the conversation.

Handle everyday situations.

Connect with people.

Explore more independently.

Say yes more often.

And ultimately, get more out of the experience you worked so hard to have.

I WANT TO BE READY

¡Hola! I'M LILY.

I’m a Spanish educator and the founder of Viva Barcelona Learning.

But long before I taught Spanish, Spanish changed my life.

It became a passport that took me beyond the borders of my ordinary existence.

Speaking another language has led me to some of the most unforgettable moments, places, experiences, and relationships of my life.

And I've seen something again and again as an educator:

Students can know a tremendous amount of Spanish and still hesitate when it's time to actually use it.

That's why I created Revive Before You Go™.

I don't want students to arrive abroad believing they need perfect Spanish before they're allowed to participate.

I want them to have the confidence and strategies to try.

To stay curious.

To recover when they don't understand.

To talk to people.

To explore.

To connect.

And maybe even to discover that speaking another language opens doors they didn't know were there.

Because study abroad isn't just about where you go.

It's about who you become while you're there.

  • M.A. in Spanish
  • Licensed Educator
  • Studied / Traveled in Spain, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico and Argentina

You don’t need perfect Spanish to have an extraordinary experience.

You just need to be willing—and prepared—to use it.

You already did the hard part.

You studied the language.

You applied to go abroad.

You said yes to the experience.

Now let’s make sure your Spanish is ready to come with you.

REVIVE BEFORE YOU GO™

Practical Spanish preparation for study abroad.

I'M READY TO REVIVE MY SPANISH

Frequently Asked Questions

Don’t wait until you arrive to start finding your Spanish again.

Your semester abroad will go faster than you think.

Arrive ready to talk, listen, explore, connect—and make more of it.

Revive Before You Go™

You’ve studied Spanish. Now get ready to live it.

 

 

GET READY TO GO