Marie moved to Devon in September 2020 with her husband and daughter, after living and working in Oxford for six years. Marie is from Charente-Maritime on the West coast of France, and prior to living in England has lived in Spain, Australia,…
Carolina is a first-generation immigrant, who grew up in the town of Cherán, in the region of Michoacán, Mexico. She belongs to an indigenous community called the Purépecha, with its own language, traditions and unique view of the world. Her parents…
Pilar was born in Barcelona, Spain and moved to Exeter in 2013. She currently lives with her husband, who is originally from Chile, and her four children. She is a native Spanish and Catalan speaker and also speaks English (although she is reluctant…
Claudia was born in Peru and lived in Lima until she was 21. She then moved to Italy to study in Rome for 11 years before moving to Dartmoor in Devon in 2013 to live with her husband who grew up there. As a child she was bilingual since she went to…
Neli first came to Exeter in 2002 to learn English for a year, from Mexico City. She made great friends here, as well as improving her English and meeting her future husband (Mark). After her year studying English in Exeter, she went back to Mexico…
Hector is originally from Jerez De La Frontera, a city in the southern region of Andalusia, Spain. He has had a successful career as a vet working with small animals, as well as specialising in Tuberculosis testing on farms. Currently, he works for…
Originally from Toulouse, Clémence moved to England twenty years ago following her studies, settling in Exeter to pursue a career in her specialised field of Turkish and Kurdish studies. Clemence is currently a senior lecturer at the University of…
Corinne originally moved to Devon in 1992 as part of her university degree to work as a language assistant at Kingsbridge school. Although she was meant to stay for only one academic year, she ended up never going back to her home in Montpellier,…
