Speak Now exists to open doors.
A better job, a university degree, a life in English without fear.
Built by educators with two decades of bilingual classroom practice in Florida.
Your Future Starts Today.
Enroll NowA Bridge Between Who You Are and the Life You Came to Build.
Speak Now is a Florida-based bilingual academy built for the people for whom English is the difference between standing still and moving forward — young immigrants, university students, working professionals, and families building a life in a new country. We are not a content library. We are not a self-study app. We are a school — with live instruction, qualified educators, the official Cambridge University Press digital textbooks, and a structured path from your first lesson to real, measurable English.
Live Classes, Personal Attention
Real teachers. Real classrooms. Real conversation from your first lesson. The human teacher is the method — not a piece of software.
Both Languages. Same Standard.
English for the Spanish-speaker. Spanish for the English-speaker. Taught with the same rigor in both directions — because both deserve it.
Cambridge Digital Materials
We teach with Ventures, the Cambridge University Press series for adult education in the United States: student’s book, workbook, exercises, and test preparation — all digital, made for your reality, and included in your tuition.
Premium Education. Built to Move You Forward.
Six things that separate Speak Now from a generic English class — and from a self-study platform pretending to be a school.
Two Decades. One Conviction.
Twenty years of bilingual teaching practice — across universities, schools, vocational institutes, and language academies — distilled into one academy with one mission.
Cambridge in Your Classroom.
Your materials are the Ventures digital books from Cambridge University Press: student’s book, workbook, exercises, test preparation, and a digital platform assisted by artificial intelligence. All included — matched to your world.
Connected to the World.
Aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference, A1 to C2 — the same international standard universities, employers and institutions recognize across the world.
A Live Class Is Where Language Lives.
Specialized teachers in real-time classes. No recordings. No automated tutors. Real conversation, real correction, real progress — every single session.
Practice That Follows You Home.
A digital platform with daily practice, continuous assessment, gamification and AI-assisted learning. The class ends — your practice doesn’t.
Premium. Accessible.
World-class education at a price the immigrant learner can actually pay. We refuse the trade-off between rigor and access.
Behind Every Open Door, There Is a School.
Speak Now is born in Florida. The educators behind it have spent two decades in universities, K-12 schools, vocational institutes, and language academies, learning what makes a language program actually work for the adult learner in the United States.
That experience does not live on a brochure. It lives in our methodology, our materials, our assessment standards, and the way we run every class. Speak Now is the institutional answer to a question we have spent twenty years answering: what does the immigrant learner actually need — and what is the school willing to deliver it without compromise?
“Real teachers teach better than algorithms.”
That is why every Speak Now class is live, and led by a qualified educator.
“Live classes produce real speakers.”
That is why our method puts you in conversation from your first lesson.
“Honest pricing protects the learner.”
That is why we refuse to charge what the market would let us charge.
Serious, accessible language education is not a privilege — it is a right. That conviction is the foundation of every decision Speak Now makes.
— Speak Now Editorial Principle
Alirio Agudelo
Holds the academic direction of Speak Now Language Academy alongside the team of educators that built its methodology. Leads the school from South Florida, with two decades of classroom experience across universities, schools, vocational institutes, and language academies.
Academic CredentialsMaster’s in Didactics of English — Universidad de La Sabana
TESOL Certificate — Arizona State University
Postgraduate Certificate — University Teaching
Bachelor’s Degree — Modern Languages
A Door Opened. A Life Built.
“Before moving to Europe, I needed to seriously improve my English. Ali’s classes prepared me for the real world — not just for an exam. Today I live in Austria, I work here, and I feel confident every day. Speak Now made the difference.”
Sebastián
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