Nuestra historia · About us
Founded by teachers, run by teachers.
Veran started in 2019 with two teachers, one classroom, and a conviction: Spanish speakers don't need more grammar drills — they need to speak, from the very first class.
We'd both spent a decade in big-box language academies — the kind with forty-student classrooms, photocopied worksheets, and students who could conjugate every tense yet froze when the phone rang in English. The problem was never the students. It was a method that treated speaking as a reward for finishing grammar, instead of the whole point.
So we flipped it. At Veran, every class is a conversation with structure hiding inside it. Grammar appears the moment you need it — when you reach for the past perfect and it isn't there — and because your class has eight people instead of forty, the moment you need it is the moment you get it.
Seven years later: 2,400 students, a 94% exam pass rate, and a waiting list for the Saturday intensive. The classrooms are bigger. The classes aren't. Eso no se negocia.
Veran, en números
2019
founded by two teachers
2,400+
students taught
94%
official-exam pass rate
11
certified teachers
8
students max — still, always
What we don't compromise
Speaking is the syllabus
Grammar serves conversation, never the other way around. If you didn't speak today, we failed.
Honest placement
We put you at your real level, even when a lower one would sell more classes. Trust compounds.
Small by design
Eight students isn't a marketing line — it's the maximum where every voice gets heard, every class.
Progress on paper
Reviews every six weeks, certificates at every level. Your effort deserves evidence.
The faculty
Todos certificados · CELTA, DELTA, TESOL

Amy Kessler
Head of Teaching · CELTA, DELTA
14 years teaching English in Mexico City and Madrid. Writes our curriculum and still teaches B1 every morning.

Daniel Reyes
Exam Prep Lead · IELTS examiner (fmr.)
Former IELTS examiner. Knows exactly what band 7 sounds like — and how to get you there.

Siobhán O'Leary
Senior Teacher · CELTA
Dublin-born, Bogotá-based. Runs the Conversation Club and our pronunciation labs.

Marcus Thompson
Business English Lead · MBA
Ten years in corporate consulting before teaching. Your interview bootcamp is his favorite week.

Paola Vidal
Student Success · C2, TESOL
Learned English exactly the way you are now — she runs placement, progress reviews, and pep talks.

James Whitfield
Senior Teacher · TEFL
Specialist in getting A1 students talking on day one. Endless patience, terrible puns — in two languages.