About us
We met more than twenty years ago. Throughout the years we have developed as professionals in our careers separately but we have shared many important moments as friends.
We have now decided to go on this new adventure together, sharing all the experience we have gained in our careers with our students and doing what we love most, teaching how to communicate effectively, no matter what the language you are learning may be.
Salomé Lora
Salomé Lora was born in Seville, Spain. She has a degree in English Language and Literature and a Master’s degree in Teaching Spanish and Other Modern Languages as Foreign Languages (Minors English & Spanish) from the University of Seville.(Spain), she is currently working on a doctoral thesis based on Phonic difficulties of Chinese students in the Spanish language. She has taught English and Spanish in Spain, the United States and Hong Kong. In recent years, she has specialized in Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) with special emphasis on teaching Chinese students and therefore dedicating her Master thesis to this matter whilst taking several specialization courses in Seville, Jaén, and Hong Kong.
Most recently, she was sent to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on a scholarship to investigate, collect data and work with Chinese speaking student learners of Spanish for six months as part of her doctoral thesis. In addition to all this, she has attended several meetings, conferences and talks dedicated to SSL teaching, methodological and didactic tools, socio-affective strategies in the classroom of SSL, etc., both in Spain and Hong Kong.
Pastora Sorensen
Pastora was born in Madrid and grew up in a multilingual environment. She studied music in the Conservatory in Madrid and Salamanca. She went on to study at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She studied creative movement with Marta Schinca and voice lessons with Beatriz Peña at the Estudio Schinca. She began teaching English to English Philology students at Universidad de Salamanca (1990) she also worked in several language schools preparing students for exams such as KET, PET, FCE, CAE CPE and Trinity College.
In 2001, she began teaching music and English at Princess Margaret, a private primary and secondary school in Barcelona. In the last ten years, she has taught business English and general English to companies such as Repsol, Sanitas or Caja Madrid. Her method is a combination of all these experiences, the aim is to enjoy the learning process and to learn to express one’s ideas effectively and to one’s satisfaction. Currently, she teaches English and Spanish in The Hague at several language schools. She specializes in preparing young learners to travel abroad with their family (Expat preparation) to English or Spanish speaking countries. She also teaches returning children to continue to improve the new language acquired while abroad.
Her newest project is based on the CLIL method, teaching intermediate students of a second language music in Spanish or English.
Li Xian
Xian was born in China where she majored in Japanese language and literature. In 2008, she went to Japan to study as an exchange student. After her graduation, she came to Spain and completed a Master´s degree in Applied Linguistics to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University Antonio de Nebrija and another in Intercultural Communication Translation and interpretation in Public Services (Chinese-Spanish) at the University of Alcalá.
In terms of teaching experience, she taught Japanese to Chinese students in China and had experience of teaching Chinese when in Japan. In recent years she has taught Chinese to both adults and children in Spain. In addition to her teaching experience, she is very familiar with different methodologies to teach a foreign language to suit the needs of each student as she had training in the field of teaching Spanish as a Second Language.
