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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Judith first came to Exeter to study English and Film at the University. She also lived in London and Cambridge before moving to Devon in 2014 after completing her Doctorate in Vienna. She was born and grew up in Villach, Austria, a town on the…
Joseba came to Exeter 12 years ago as part of a student exchange programme and decided to stay due to work opportunities that came up. Due to a fondness for Devon, he decided to stay longer than he had initially planned. He is originally from the…
