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Overview

  • 5 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese, French, German
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Teach Spanish to non-Spanish speakers!
  • 4-year Degree in Translation and Interpreting
  • From Salamanca, Spain
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Becoming a better person everyday by being enriched by what surrounds me

PHILOSOPHY

...my own personal,not transferable ;) philosophy of life is always growing...
'The most wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed'
'Muchas personas son demasiado educadas para hablar con la boca llena, pero no les preocupa hacerlo con la cabeza hueca'
"Los hombres olvidan siempre que la felicidad humana es una disposición de la mente y no una condición de las circunstancias" (John Locke)
SOLO CUANDO EL ALUMNO ESTA PREPARADO APARECE EL MAESTRO
No es mas rico el que mas tiene sino el q menos necesita
Si preferirias estar haciendo otro cosa, hazla
Hazme reir
Smart has the plans, stupid has the stories
Yo soy mas de encontrar que de buscar

Interests

Travelling and learning as many languages as my brain can bear ;)

  • traveling
  • cars
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

These are some of my favourite movies but I am sure I am forgetting some amazing ones too: Annie hall, Schindler's list, Casablanca, Mi vida sin mi, Pulp fiction, Match point, Mystic river, 21 grammes, The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The Shawshank Redemption, Garden state, The blind side, Le herisson, Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, Memento, Lola Rent, Amores perros. I also like some TV shows among which Friends is the absolute winner ;)

In literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my guru, being A Hundred Years of Solitude one of my favourite books ever. I also like to discover new authors, such us David Nichols with his novel One Day, which I am sure will become a classic in a few years' time. Some Spanish books that I enjoyed very much are Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios, by Torcuato Luca de Tena or La Casa de Los Espiritus by Isabel Allende. Kazuo Ishiguro is in my favourites' list with his masterpiece Never Let me Go.

Talking about music, I can listen to all kinds of music, depending on the day and on my mood, from The Beatles to Manu Chao, Franz Ferdinand, Jack Johnson, Calamaro, Pereza, Amaral, or Paco de Lucia. I absolutely love the soundtrack of Amelie, no matter how much time passes it always makes me smile :)
I like to discover new indie groups suc us Vetusta Morla, the new Spanish group that I absolutely adore!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I travelled around Scotland for a very intense week with another 7 friends in two cars. We enjoyed every single minute of this amazing roadtrip

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Spanish to anyone who is eager to learn it

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