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Juan Diego Balam

Spanish Language Coach

Juan Diego Balam is a Spanish language coach from Mexico. With over 7 years of experience, Juan Diego is the founder of SpanisHacks, helping Spanish learners to achieve fluency and confidence in just a few months. Juan emphasizes conversational speaking and acquiring the language in a comprehensible input environment as the keys to reaching fluency quickly. He offers language coaching programs through SpanisHacks, and shares additional tips and insights on social media to over 230k followers.

Education

  • Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Physiotherapy, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
  • Startup México Graduate, Acceleration Program
  • Community Leadership, Universidad Iberoamericana
  • ELE Certified Spanish Teacher, Divulgación Dinámica

Professional Achievements

  • 7+ years of building digital communities and growing audiences from 0 to 230,000+
  • Founder of Spanishacks, built a language-learning community with over 230k followers on Instagram and expanded across platforms
  • Helped more than 500 clients reach their goals
  • Created sponsored content for Busuu, Chatterbug, Memrise, Language Drops, Lingotune, and more language-learning apps

Certifications & Organizations

  • TEDx Speaker: Presented on community leadership

Favorite Piece of Advice

Self-confidence comes first: it gives you permission to make mistakes, and mistakes are what make you fluent faster.

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Looking to brush up on your Spanish? Learning the word for “dad” is a great (and easy!) place to start. We’ve covered all the vocab and slang you need to know across multiple Spanish-speaking regions, so you can so...

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For the most part, writing numbers in Spanish is no different than writing them in English. Spanish uses the same numerals as are used in English. However, there are some quirks to writing numbers in Spanish that don't e...

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