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Richard Davie • April, 06 2021

From Mexico to Barcelona: Meet Angola

At TEFL Iberia, we love welcoming students from all over the world. Angola joined us on our January course all the way from Mexico so we sat down for a chat about studying TEFL as a non-native English speaker and how she found her TEFL Iberia experie...

Maria Di Mario • March, 16 2021

Meet our course director, Richard

We’re running a series of blogpost interviews with the TEFL Iberia team and first up is Richard, our founder and school director. Richard grew up in Scotland and studied Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. He moved to Barcelona in 2008, where h...

Maria Di Mario • March, 08 2021

Eight inspiring female teachers

It’s International Women’s Day this week, so we thought we’d mark the date with a blogpost celebrating eight inspiring female teachers throughout history. Natalie Zahle Born in Denmark, her parents died when she was ten years old, and the orphaned N...

Maria Di Mario • March, 01 2021

Being a Business English teacher

When I first started learning to teach English and thought about business English it conjured up images of men in suits, massive offices and demanding students. They would have difficult questions about English and wouldn’t suffer anyone who didn’t k...

Maria Di Mario • February, 24 2021

Our favourite terraces in Barcelona

Terraces – the tables grouped on pavements outside bars – are a big part of social life in Barcelona, especially in the summer. There’s one on every corner with groups of friends having a drink or a tapa together outside on summer evenings. We love g...

Richard Davie • February, 24 2021

Brexit & student visas: Which Spanish consulate should I go to?

The Spanish consulate websites are notoriously hard to navigate and find (in English) the exact information you are looking for. Now that British students require a visa to study in Spain, they will have to go to the Spanish consulate in either Lond...