Matthew

I'm a native British tutor, translator, interpreter and former teacher with C2 fluency in Spanish. I have been speaking Spanish since I was 16 and have lived and worked in Valladolid, Spain, often touted as the capital of the Spanish language and home to home to Spain's answer to Shakespeare, Cervantes. I am available for tutoring offering either Spanish to English-speaking students or English to Spanish-speaking students.

I previously worked as an English teacher with my own classes at a private languages academy in Spain.

The English I speak is from the South of England and is categorized as Received Pronunciation, which is a beneficial variety of English for foreign-language speakers to learn.

In turn, the Spanish I speak is Iberian and my accent is best characterized as being from the Castilla y León region.

I am happy to work remotely or in-person and can drive to locations in the South. Rate price is per person.

Tutoring Experience

Spanish at C2 fluency (highest level of the European Framework for languages)
BA in Spanish - First Class Honours (University of Southampton)
MA in Translation and Interpreting - Distinction (University of Surrey)
English teacher at URBE Innovación Educativa in Valladolid, Spain (2015-2016)
Director of two translation businesses: MC Linguistic Services and Sidequest Translations

Tutoring Approach

As someone who has spent years learning languages themselves, I don't believe in simple repetition or memorization to be an effective method of language acquisition. Instead, I believe that the learner must be as immersed as possible in the language in order to achieve a level of fluency that doesn't just convince others, but convinces the speaker themselves, providing them with the confidence to put themselves out there as a firm speaker of that language.