An online course where kids learn to read and write in Spanish in one-to-one classes with native teachers, personalised to your child's other language, part of our online Spanish classes for kids. Afterwards, group Reading & Theatre levels build real fluency.
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It's the forgotten half of bilingualism. Your child's whole schooling happens in another language, so someone teaches them to read and write in English, German or French… but nobody teaches them to read and write in Spanish.
And literacy is what fixes a language for life: reading books in Spanish, texting their grandparents, keeping up at school if you ever move back. A child who only speaks Spanish can lose it; a child who reads and writes it keeps it forever.
If your child understands Spanish but is still reluctant to speak it, start with our classes for heritage speaker kids: literacy is the natural next step.
A step-by-step method built for kids, all through play, so your child never feels like they're "studying".
First, the letters and the sounds they make, through games, songs and stories.
With that base, children start joining sounds into syllables, and syllables into their first words.
Special emphasis on the letters that confuse kids, with games designed just for them.
Every class feels like a game. Children learn to read without ever feeling they're studying.
A favourite example: the letter C sounds different depending on the vowel that follows it. Little discoveries like this are exactly what the course untangles, one game at a time.
Learning to read in Spanish is not the same from Chinese as from Italian. The starting point depends on your child's dominant language: its alphabet, its sounds, and everything they already know how to transfer.
That's why this course is one-to-one: our native teachers adapt the method exactly to your child's case: no generic curriculum, no group pace that's too fast or too slow.
For the fastest progress we recommend an intensive rhythm of 3 classes per week.
Literacy doesn't end at "they can read now". Diluu is the only programme that takes kids from their first letters all the way to real fluency, with theatre and games.
From zero to reading and writing in Spanish, personalised to your child's other language.
The foundations settle in and fluency grows as they read and act out stories with other kids.
Advanced texts, writing their own scripts, a wider vocabulary and more complex spelling and grammar.
Yes: learning to read in two languages doesn't confuse children. Reading skills transfer between languages: decoding, sounding out, understanding that letters carry sounds. What your child learns in one language helps them in the other.
Ideally, once your child already reads and writes in their dominant language: at Diluu we've seen that these children progress much faster in Spanish. And Spanish plays in their favour: it's a transparent language, read exactly as it's written, so it's usually the easier of the two.
An honest answer, because the right starting point matters more than starting fast.
No commitment: cancel anytime. The more days per week, the more affordable each class.
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"Hablamos español en casa, pero ella siempre tenía miedo de hacerlo. Desde que empezó con Diluu perdió el miedo y habla mucho más español, incluso intenta nuevas conversaciones."
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From age 5. The ideal moment is once your child can already read and write in their dominant language: the skills transfer, and they progress much faster in Spanish.
Because the starting point depends on your child's other language: learning to read Spanish from Chinese is not the same as from Italian. One-to-one lets the teacher adapt the method exactly to your child. For the fastest progress we recommend an intensive rhythm of 3 classes per week.
Yes. Reading skills transfer between languages, so learning to read in Spanish supports reading in their other language too. And Spanish is a transparent language (it is read exactly as it is written), so it is usually the easier of the two.
They move on to our group Reading & Theatre levels: level 1 consolidates reading and writing and builds fluency; level 2 brings more advanced texts, writing their own scripts, richer vocabulary and more complex spelling and grammar, all through games and play.
It helps a lot. The course is designed for children who already speak or understand Spanish. If your child doesn't speak Spanish yet, we recommend starting with our conversation classes and making the jump to literacy later.
No. You can cancel anytime, and you can start with a €3 trial class to see how your child gets on.
Same method, same native teachers, for families raising kids with French at home.
One €3 class. No commitment. From first letters to reading their own scripts on stage.
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