The Founders
Our Mission at Warren Hardy Spanish is to connect people
through language learning and cultural understanding
When I was a young man I started teaching English to doctors while living in Argentina and I found I had a gift and love for teaching. When I returned to the States I got a Bachelor of Science in Education with a Spanish major. I wanted to teach adults so I studied how the adult brain learns language. I noticed there were no learning methodologies or textbooks for adult learners so I began to develop my own.
While in college, in 1972 I published my first Spanish textbook. In that same year I founded my first school: The Accelerated Conversational Language Institute in Flagstaff, Arizona.
In 1980 I moved to Tucson where I founded Language First. My student population was business people in Tuscon as well as tourists. Each of the classrooms was a theater set where students did role plays.
During this time I became very active in the Tucson community. I served in Rotary International. I was awarded a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow, an honor awarded for distinguished international service.
I served on the Arizona/Sonora commission Governor’s Commission.
I was invited to attend the Chamber of Commerce executive leadership program.
In 1990 I got married to Tuli and we moved to San Miguel de Allende where I founded The Warren Hardy School. Over the next five years I devoted myself to writing the CoreSpanish work books while teaching expats. At the same time I developed my “paired learning” methodology and integrated learning system combining workbooks with flash cards and audios.
My textbooks and learning system have been carefully sculpted from thousands of classroom hours as I have seen what works for adult learners. I have published 17 titles.
I wrote teachers manuals and began to train other teachers in my method.
I personally handpicked the Warren Hardy teachers 25 years ago when they were teenagers. I hired them based on their ability to engage people. They all have a love for teaching and have worked with me in the classroom for 25 years. They are master teachers.
Thirty years later over 20,000 students have studied at the Warren Hardy School and it has become an institution in San Miguel.
I have produced over 170 videos of my course of study and over 10,000 study my online Webtutor.
My learning program is successfully used by thousands of independent adult learners as well as public, private, and entrepreneurial teachers trained in my method.
I am a founding member of the International Conflict Resolution Institute.
I have lived in Mexico since 1990 and my wife and I became dual citizens in 2000. I am an expert on bi-cultural relations and mediation.
Since 2013 I have been a speaker/presenter International Living Conventions. I speak about Hispanic culture and teach Spanish to audiences of over four hundred.
Warren enjoys painting in his studio. He is a yoga and meditation practitioner.
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The Warren Hardy School Online
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International Living Speaker/Presenter
What students are saying about Warren
“Warren, you have something it takes 20 years to get – a franchise. Recognition. A place in the community. This is why you have to keep reminding yourself what it is you really give your students. It’s not language training. That’s just the excuse. You give people a new life. Connection with like-minded people. A rich cultural experience. A sense of belonging, a Mexican family. Recognition that they exist, a chance to feel comfortable while they reinvent themselves. None of that is in the brochures, and it’s not what students ask you for when they register for classes. But it’s what the people you care about are getting from you. So maestro. Stop doubting, stop worrying, and own this life-affirming role you’ve created in the world.”
Tuli Hardy
Chief Operating Officer and Administrator
To really understand the value of Tuli at Warren Hardy Spanish, you must understand that Tuli and Warren went to San Miguel on their honeymoon in 1990 and they decided to stay. They built Warren Hardy Spanish together. Warren is a gifted and passionate teacher, Tuli is an excellent administrator. All that Warren Hardy Spanish is, is because it has always been a team effort.
Tuli is the Chief Operating Officer of Warren Hardy Spanish. She administers the Warren Hardy School and corresponds with prospective students and places them in class.
She manages publishing of all products and processes Webtutor and online orders. She does accounting for all Warren Hardy enterprises.
Tuli enjoys her German Shepherd dogs, traveling, reading, cooking, gardening and is also a yoga enthusiast.
Watch the video of “Tulita y Su Guacamolito”.
What students are saying about Tuli
most loved
woman in all of San Miguel. It’s just been a joy knowing that you are there for the community and I hope that someday they erect a statue to you and Warren. You have made a difference in all of our lives.”
—Sheila S., CA.
My thanks to both you and Warren for organizing it—and bringing us all so
happily together.
One of the byproducts of being a part of your wonderful school is not just learning and improving in the language, but delighting in so many new and lasting friendships. It could not have been a better fiesta. Muchas gracias!”
—Nevin H., SMA
very lucky
to have you looking after their affairs.”
—Scott