Students of the Season - Autumn 2025

🌟🌟 Students of the Season - Autumn 2025 🌟🌟

Charlie & Jonny are our Students of the Season this autumn, we interviewed them to see what they had to say about their Spanish journeys:

🔆Why did you start learning Spanish?

J – Spanish is spoken widely & is extremely useful in society, t is good to learn another language. Also it is quite cool to listen to people speaking Spanish. I also definitely prefer Spanish to French and speaking Spanish opens south America.

C – Spanish is spoken in movies is cool and it would be great to speak it in real life. Spanish sounds easier to speak than most languages.

🔆What’s been the most difficult thing to learn?

J – The hardest part is changing verbs, choosing the correct conjugation and doing it fast enough to be able to speak.

C – Learning the verbs and how they change is difficult, having to think about what person to change the verb into as you’re using it.

🔆What’s been the easiest thing to learn?

J – Pronunciation is easy for me and how to stress vowels with accents on or different letters like the ñ, I find that quite easy.

C – Easiest thing is probably family members and beginner vocab; we started having lesson when we were young so we already have a good foundation in basics.

🔆What’s your best tip for anyone starting to learn Spanish?

J – Practice a little and often and always stay on top of remembering vocab, nouns and adjectives.

C – Learning verb conjugation is hard to remember but I found them straight forward to learn, they are like a formula, and I found them relatively easy to grasp. Learn them and you'll find forming sentences easy.

🔆What’s been your best tool when trying to learn the tricky topics?

J – Looking back through my book to remember and revise is very useful, keeping clear notes helps me when I’m trying to find a tricky topic.

C – I look for the words I do know and try and piece the work together like that, then work on finding out what I’m missing.

🔆What do you hope to achieve in the future with regards to Spanish?

J – I want to become fluent and maybe one day work in a Spanish speaking country, I’d also like to work on my listening as I think that’s my weakest skill.

C – I want to get an A* in GCSE and A-level and then maybe look at taking it further either living in a Spanish speaking country or maybe even do it at university alongside something else.

Charlie and Jonny have been a pleasure to teach and it's lovely to have them learning together. I am looking forward to seeing what happens when they pick it as a GCSE topic and beyond. Well done boys, you are a pleasure to teach.

Charlie (left) & Jonny (right) are our students of the season this autumn