T.B. Pearson is a British author who has spent more than a decade living his Spanish rather than studying it. His road into the language was an unusual one: a balance disorder left him unable to work, drive, or look at a screen — but able to listen. Spanish podcasts filled the silence, and in 2014 he arrived in Madrid to put all those hours into practice.
Seven years of living and working in Madrid and Barcelona later — plus an Argentinian wife, Maira, and her wonderfully talkative family — he had notebooks full of the Spanish that textbooks never teach: the slang, the swearing, the small talk, the dating, the office politics. The Speak Spanish Like a Native series is those notebooks, distilled.
He now lives in Asturias, in northern Spain, wiT.B. Pearson is a British author who has spent more than a decade living his Spanish rather than studying it. His road into the language was an unusual one: a balance disorder left him unable to work, drive, or look at a screen — but able to listen. Spanish podcasts filled the silence, and in 2014 he arrived in Madrid to put all those hours into practice.
Seven years of living and working in Madrid and Barcelona later — plus an Argentinian wife, Maira, and her wonderfully talkative family — he had notebooks full of the Spanish that textbooks never teach: the slang, the swearing, the small talk, the dating, the office politics. The Speak Spanish Like a Native series is those notebooks, distilled.
He now lives in Asturias, in northern Spain, with Maira and their twins, Cai and Yaro. A mathematics and physics graduate and software developer by trade, he's also a keen sportsman and piano player.