Õpetajad

Paula is from Peru and came to Estonia a year ago.
She is a professional pastry chef with a passion for languages. That’s why
she also attended courses in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

Lourdes Herrera, was born in Mexico in 1990.
She studied Plastic Arts at the University of Cuernavaca, doing a postgraduate
degree in Art Therapy at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires.
Working 3 years as an employed crew of Caribbean cruises, in the Youth staff
area. 10 years experience teaching Arts and English classes around South
America, and USA.
Apart from Spanish, he also speaks English.

He has attended several universities, having started at age 17 (“U.B.A” Or, Universidad de Buenos Aires) and later continued his studies in 2009 in the “Universidad de Belgrano”. His first university background is related to South American Law. But given the fact that he moved to Europe, he decided to continue his education in TLÜ (Tallinn University). He then switched careers to a Bachelor in Humanities in order to pursue his real passion in life, which is to teach languages.

Ignacio speaks fluently 3 languages (Spanish, English, Russian).

He has studied and reached a B.2 Level for Estonian and Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian, and has reached an A.2 level for Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

He enjoys taking courses on the history of languages and how they are structured, as this historical feature helps us understand better how we create our languages today. He has studied by his own accord: Old English, Old Spanish, Old Norse, Old Germanic languages, Southern Slavic history and the development of all Yugoslavian languages and other related topics. He has taken courses on the comparison of the Slavic Languages grammatical structures, and how all Slavic languages are different amongst each other.

He has attended Argentinian universities, The Zagreb University for Philologists, The Philological department in the Wien University of Austria and, TLÜ in Estonia)

He has opened his very own Language and Music MTÜ Studio in Tallinn. He is also a musician on the side (as his favourite hobby), and he offers vocal lessons, guitar-violin lessons, musical theory lessons, speech health lessons, speech improvement, amongst other courses. He has had background and courses in Post Modern Neuroscience (“Epigenetics”, the science behind how memory works, and more).

Ignacio likes sports like rugby, football and bodybuilding. He has competed in the Estonian professional stage where he received 3rd place against some of the best in Europe (2019). He enjoys translating documents, phrases, books, and texts of all kinds and forms.

Hector was born in Valencia in 1985.
He studied Catalan Philology at the University of Valencia.
After several occasional jobs in Spain translating papers from Spanish to Catalan, teaching the
Catalan language to private students, and collaborating in initiatives to promote the use of Catalan
in educational institutions, he came to Estonia to teach Spanish and Catalan.
Hector has been a Spanish teacher at Centro Picasso in Tallinn for six years.
He focuses on enhancing the spoken language skills of his students, taking care of basic grammar
structures. Therefore he likes researching new materials and tools to make his classes enjoyable and
productive for the students.
Hector likes nature, history, reading, traveling, and cooking. Apart from Spanish, he also speaks
Catalan, English, and basic Estonian.

Raul was born in Madrid in 1972.

He finished his university degree in Tourism at the University of Madrid and later obtained a degree in pedagogy.

After numerous trips to Latin America as a senior Cabin Crew member in Air Europa for 12 years, Raul dedicated himself to language teaching, he completed ELE courses and has been teaching Spanish as a foreign language for the past 14 years.

He is the director of Centro Picasso in Tallinn and Riga schools. In addition to teaching, he also organizes Spanish summer camps in Spain since 2010 where more than 500 students from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have participated.

Together with the team of teachers at Centro Picasso, he is the co-author of the textbooks for studying Spanish at levels A1 and A2 in schools.

Raul had been Spanish teacher at Tallinn University of Technology for 6 years.

He also was the Founder of Centro Picasso in Vilnius in 2010.

Each month he organizes several activities related to Spanish culture in Centro Picasso schools and events in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Estonia.

He focuses a lot on enhancing the spoken language skills of his students, making the classes enjoyable and participatory. He likes to use a creative and fun approach in his classes to make students feel comfortable and more open.

Raul likes nature, different sports, culture, travelling and cooking. Apart from Spanish, he also speaks fluent English, Italian and basic Estonian.