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About us – The team
The Co Co Lingua Team
When you learn Spanish at Co Co Lingua, you do not encounter an anonymous language school, but people who listen, motivate and adapt the lessons to your personal goals. Our team combines professional expertise with patience, humour and a genuine enjoyment of meeting people. In very small groups, private lessons and online classes, we create a space where you can speak with confidence, make visible progress and connect the Spanish language with the culture of Lanzarote.
Yaiza, Lanzarote
Founder-led school, established in 2011
On site & online
Lessons on the island and live online classes
Founder-led since 2011
Elvia Zaldívar
Founder and Director of Co Co Lingua
Elvia Zaldívar grew up in Honduras and completed her school and university education in the United States. There she learned English and began studying French. She later lived in Hamburg for five years and learned German. Spanish is her mother tongue; she also speaks English, German and French fluently and can communicate in Italian.
Her passion for languages and teaching has been part of her life for many years. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she began teaching English in Barcelona and later worked as an English and Spanish teacher. For Elvia, languages were always far more than a professional tool: they opened doors to different countries, cultures and people and shaped her own multicultural path through life.
In 2008, Elvia moved to Lanzarote with her German husband. The island had already held a special place in his parents’ lives, and it also became a new home for Elvia. On 1 April 2011, she founded Co Co Lingua in Yaiza. The first learners came from the local area; after that, the school grew step by step through personal recommendations, first on Lanzarote and later through former learners in Germany and other countries. Bildungsurlaub courses were added in 2014. Since 2020, Co Co Lingua has been developing a specialised online programme that combines personal support with particular flexibility.
Today, Elvia leads Co Co Lingua with the conviction that learning a language and its culture broadens horizons. Teaching should help people discover common ground, understand different ways of thinking and meet one another with greater empathy. Her aim is for learners to feel well looked after, understood and included, while also learning to understand another culture better. Language becomes a living means of encounter and communication.
On-site teaching in Yaiza
Our teachers in Lanzarote.
Our team combines professional expertise with patience, humour and a genuine enjoyment of meeting people.
Online teaching
Live online, wherever you are.
Our online lessons are taught by a long-standing member of the team, with the same personal support as on the island.
Through her long-standing collaboration, she knows Co Co Lingua’s teaching philosophy and quality standards particularly well. Active communication is at the heart of her lessons: learners should build confidence, integrate Spanish into their everyday lives and start speaking without fear of making mistakes.