Isabel: The use of the language is just so real. Interviewer: What do you think is the advantage of learning Spanish in Spain? It is precisely for these difficult topics when learning 24/7 in a Spanish speaking country becomes very useful. It is very enriching helping them get over these obstacles and see how they develop their skills and most often end up reaching a CI level. Isabel: The verbs and the different types of tenses are confusing topics for the students. Interviewer: What do you think is the most difficult thing to learn from Spanish as a foreign language? A total disaster! This day I decided: I will never teach Spanish again in my live! But the next day I showed up in class and enrol for a Master of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language. I started speaking and before I knew it, I somehow taught all the contents of an A1 level in 15 minutes. Philologist, what could possibly go wrong? Well… Next day I go into the classroom and meet 25 students with cero level, they didn’t know a single word in Spanish. I went home highly motivated and spent the whole evening searching materials from my Hispanic Philology studies and preparing my class. One day the school manager told me that she urgently needed a Spanish teacher for the next day. At that time, I was in charge of the cultural program. It was in a school in Barcelona which was specialized in teaching Spanish to students from the United States. Isabel: I will never forget my first lesson. Dear Isabel, do you remember your first Spanish lesson as a teacher? When was it and how did you manage it? She has many years of experience in teaching all levels of Spanish and has taught in many places. Isabel is passionate about teaching the Spanish language, writing poetry and practicing yoga. Interviewer: Today we are speaking to the teacher Isabel Plaza about her experience as a Spanish Teacher and the importance of Learning Spanish in Spain. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. You have 15 seconds to complete the task. I enjoyed just chatting to her in English. Susan: Yeah, I also remember when I first became interested in English but later on when I met some people from different countries, I became more interested in communicating with them and, like you said, my teacher also inspired me. I guess it has something to do with being curious about things that are written or said. It just felt like something kind of fun.īen: But I can’t tell you where that fun started.
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I didn’t really have a plan, I just enjoyed English that’s why I studied in my free time but I didn’t think of it as something I have to do, I just did it for fun.īen: Also in high school I remember my classmates complaining about all the homework in English and they couldn’t do it and they used to come You see people ask me how I learnt English. My home had so many books in it, I was lucky I guess in that way and at least half of them were in English and when I discovered that there were books in the house that I couldn’t get into and I was really into stories and reading, I felt so angry then I started reading so much and it was really good for me in the end. I read a lot, not because I wanted to learn but because I like reading and so I read in English and later on I realized I must have learned a lot of vocabulary and things that I didn’t even realize I learned.īen: Yeah, the same thing happened to me. The other thing that really helped me was reading like I really read so much in English. I had one really interesting English teacher, she was really strict, but she was really interesting and I think she inspired me because her English was so good and I thought ‘wow’ that’s really great. When I think back, I think, I try to think about the things that helped me most and I think it was a funny combination of things. Susan: It’s not your first language? So how did you do it?īen: That’s a good question. Susan: So Ben, you also learned English as a foreign language, right?