The 15-Minute Spanish Speaker: Speak Confident Spanish in Just 15 Minutes a Day

John Swift is a language coach, author, and former international business consultant who has spent more than a decade helping working professionals speak Spanish with confidence. His own Spanish came the hard way—not from classrooms, but from late nights in Guadalajara, missed words in Madrid boardrooms, and the humbling daily practice of a language learned on the job. That experience, combined with years of study in adult language acquisition and habit design, led him to a simple observation he now teaches everywhere: the problem was never ability, it was routine. John has coached executives, engineers, physicians, sales teams, and entrepreneurs across industries, and his fifteen-minute method has become the backbone of language workshops for global companies in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He writes a popular newsletter on language learning for professionals and has been featured in business and career media focused on professional development. When he is not coaching, he can be found testing his own advice in whatever Spanish-speaking city his travel schedule lands him in. He lives in Chicago with his family, and he still practices Spanish for fifteen minutes every day.