Barcelona is a destination where Fluenz offers Spanish immerion classes. They decided there must be a better way to teach languages online. When the jungle experience ended, she connected with future business partner Carlos Lizarralde, a fellow Venezuelan. But it was terrible and I considered it a rip-off.” “It was well-known, expensive and was supposed to be fantastic. “I hated it,” said Gil, who now splits her time between Mexico City and Miami. While working in the Venezuelan jungle, she took another online class, this time to improve her French.
“And this was one of the top universities in the United States. “While the materials were good, the form was subpar with just pdfs and a chat room,” she said. Gil’s path to starting an acclaimed language school began when she was at Cornell and took an online class through the university. In addition to one-to-one online teaching, Fluenz also offers a week-long, Spanish-language immersion program at posh locations in Mexico City Oaxaca, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain that includes cultural aspects including private visits to museums and archeological sites, as well as meals at fine restaurants. “At that point, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,” said the 40-year-old Gil, who would later co-found Fluenz ( ), which bills itself as “the most comprehensive digital language-learning program designed for English speakers around the world.”
She stayed for six months and pondered her future. So Gil, who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, returned to her homeland, joined an NGO (non-governmental agency) and worked in the jungle with a medical team. When Sonia Gil graduated from Cornell University with a degree in plant biology nearly 20 years ago, she had no idea what the future held.
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