Tyson Hazard
Spanish Instructor
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A Little About Myself

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My name is Tyson Hazard. I was raised in a small farming community in southern California. Despite taking two years of high school Spanish, the motivation to become completely fluent did not come until age nineteen, when I moved to Ecuador for two years as a religious and service missionary. Since my time in Ecuador, I have fallen in love with all things Spanish. In addition to Ecuador, I have traveled on several different trips, primarily by land, through several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. 

Two of the things I most love about speaking Spanish are, first, making friends and building meaningful relationships with people in these countries and, second, having access to the immense library of Spanish literature that has been in formation for nearly a thousand years. I completed my MA in Spanish Literature at the University of Colorado in Boulder—one of the top 10 graduate Spanish programs in the U.S.—in May, 2012.

If you would like to contact me, I would be happy to hear from you. Please email me:

tyson.hazard [at] colorado [dot] edu

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