MY STORY

Why is a telecommunications engineer teaching Spanish?

Let me tell you a bit about how I got here

Although I had always shown a clear interest in Spanish and language itself, my father believed that path had no real future. He decided engineering was the sensible choice: high demand, solid career prospects, a proper future.

So despite not being entirely convinced, I went along with it and studied telecommunications engineering. Mostly to keep my father happy.

Not the most original story, and it doesn’t say much for my backbone, but it’s mine.


Don’t get me wrong: I find engineering genuinely fascinating. But my real calling was somewhere else.

And when it comes to a calling, much like the heart, you don’t really get a say.


So for years I worked on telecoms and smart home projects along the Costa del Sol, in Málaga.

Many of my clients were foreign, so I dealt with them in English, slow, error-prone English, if I’m honest. My level back then wasn’t great.

To fix that, I decided to spend a year in Brighton, on the south coast of England.

I went to language exchange meetups a couple of times a week to get my English up to scratch.

That’s where I met an English Spanish teacher who had a group of British students. She was a native English speaker herself, so she asked me to help out.

That’s where I met an English Spanish teacher who had a group of British students. She was a native English speaker herself, so she asked me to help out.

That’s how I taught my first classes, completely unexpectedly.

I quickly realised I had a knack for it. And that I genuinely loved it.

Something I thought I’d left behind came back to life. And I decided that was the direction I wanted to go.


I trained as a Spanish teacher for foreign learners and started my own online Spanish teaching business.

Years later, I noticed something: Málaga had a growing number of foreign engineers. I also noticed there was nothing out there, no classes, no courses, specifically for Spanish in a technical context.

It hit me that my engineering background made me exactly the right person to help them.

And here I am, to teach you the technical Spanish you need and that nobody else is teaching you.