Estudio Sampere is a pioneering Spanish Language school, founded in 1956 in Madrid by Isabel and Alberto Sampere. Later, in 1992, Estudio Sampere opened its doors to international students in Salamanca.
In 1995 the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, joined the list of Estudio Sampere destinations, also being one of the first Spanish schools in Latin America. Five years after, in 2000, Estudio Sampere expanded to the mediterranean coast, opening another school in Alicante. From then on students could enjoy this beautiful beach location.
The fifth and last (for now) Estudio Sampere school was opened in Havana, Cuba, providing students with the opportunity to discover a completely different experience.
All the schools share the same methodology and standards of quality in teaching Spanish.
The Sampere family has now been running these Spanish schools for over 60 years. Today, the third Sampere generation continues to provide the best way to study Spanish in Spain and Latin America.
Our team
Our teachers
Raquel González
Spanish teacher at Estudio Sampere since 2015. Although Raquel is from La Mancha, she has been in love with Madrid for many years. She is an expert in DELE and SIELE test preparation, in advanced Spanish and in making you laugh while you learn Spanish. If you are watching a series, Raquel has surely already seen it.
Laura Novo
Spanish teacher at Estudio Sampere for several years. She studied Hispanic Philology at the UAM and then did a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language at the UCM. She loves her job because it allows her to travel every day through the different cultures of her students and to rediscover Madrid from a more open perspective.
Adoración Mariñas
She has been teaching Spanish for more than 17 years with the same enthusiasm and energy as the first day. Ado loves to have fun in class and is passionate about teaching grammar with games and music. She couldn’t live in a world without beer and tortilla skewers. If you like to run you are sure to meet her in Retiro Park or Casa de Campo. Her dream would be to run the Boston Marathon and learn to swing dance.
Mayte Molina
She studied a Degree in Hispanic Studies and a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training of Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Alcalá. She has experience as an ELE teacher in countries such as Italy and with students of different nationalities. She is passionate about art, music, traveling and, of course, teaching Spanish.
María Santano
She studied Hispanic Philology and Master’s Degrees in Teacher Training and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Extremadura. After working for a few years as an ELE teacher in Chile, she has returned to her country to continue doing what she loves most: teaching Spanish. In her free time, María enjoys traveling, although her greatest passion is literature, a resource she regularly uses in her classes.
Vanesa Iribarren
She studied Hispanic Philology and a PhD in Spanish Language at the UCM. Her great dream has always been to be a teacher and for twenty years she has been fulfilling it every day in class. She loves the sea, Christmas, reading, traveling, going to the theater and especially telling stories and anecdotes to her students.
Our team
Our teachers
Ivan Fernández
He’s from Madrid, but he lives in Alicante to be able to go to the beach after class. He graduated from Infant Education in the University of Alcalá and then he did a Master’s degree in Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language. He’s lived in many other countries. He likes basketball, languages and dogs above all. He’s already worked in two of our schools, first in Madrid and now in Alicante.
José Luis Tovar
He is also known as “Pepelu”. He was born in Madrid, but he has travelled the world as much as he could. He’s lived many unforgettable experiences living in London, Toulouse and Lyon. He studied philology and thanks to the courses on how to teach Spanish as a foreign language, he specialized on this discipline. He loves basketball and spotting birds of prey, as well as having a drink on Fridays after class.
Yaiza Carrasco
She’s one of the few “native” teachers from Alicante in the school. She studied Language and Literature in the University of Alicante. When she finished she got an internship to teach Spanish in the Technical University of Liberec in Czech Republic. When she came back, she studied a Master’s degree on Spanish as a second language and she returned to Alicante to work as a teacher. She loves reading and writing and spending hours in the beach during the summer.
Elena Alonso
She’s from Villena, a small town near Alicante. She studied a degree in Translation and Interpreting in the University of Alicante, and she had the chance to live in Dublin for a year. She met lots of people that wanted to learn Spanish, so she found out she loved teaching it! She studied a Master’s degree in Training of Teachers of Spanish and English as a Foreign Language. She loves languages, travelling and eating.
Alba Fernández
Alba is an English translator and Spanish teacher from a small town south of Alicante. She discovered her passion for teaching when she started teaching Spanish online after finishing her degree in translation, so she redirected her professional life and studied the Master in Spanish and English as a Second Language at the UA. She is a very curious, sociable and energetic person, so her classes are full of fun and good vibes. Besides languages, fashion and history are her two great passions and she loves to combine them with her profession whenever she can.
Pilar Aparicio
Pilar is from La Solana, a small town in Ciudad Real. She studied Translation and Interpreting at the University of Alicante, where she has lived ever since. She lived in Ireland for a year, where she had the opportunity to teach Spanish for the first time and realized that it was what she liked. She loves to know the culture and curious facts about other countries. She also enjoys learning new languages, reading and watching series.
Nuria Urbano
Nuria comes from Villena. She’s always been passionate about languages, and she’s wanted to be a Spanish teacher since she was a kid. She studied Spanish philology in the University of Alicante, where she took an internship teaching Spanish. She also loves literature, so if you’re looking for someone to talk about books, she’s the one. She likes books, watching shows, listening to music and animals.
Julia Santacreu
She’s from Alicante, “la millor terreta del món”. She studied Spanish Philology in the University of Salamanca and a Master’s degree in Literature. In 2019, she worked as a language assistant in a highschool in Cagliari, in Cerdeña, a super cool experience. She really likes sports. She loves theatre, reading, hanging out with her friends and walk nearby the sea in Alicante. She also loves family meals. She’s so Mediterranean.
