Where Spanish
language and culture
meet.

A bilingual space for everyone who wants to truly understand Spanish through essays, recommendations, and resources on the language and the culture that surrounds it.

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¡Hola! I’m Álvaro.

A teacher from the south of Spain who spent five years teaching across different countries and realized: most language learning misses the point.

Insight Spanish

Desde el sur de España

Álvaro Mertel · Profesor de español

Culture is the missing point.

I’ve spent the last five years teaching Spanish across different countries. Along the way I realized: it teaches grammar but not how Spanish actually feels. It drills vocabulary but not what it means to live inside a language.

This is what led me to create Insight Spanish. A newsletter about everything the classroom leaves out: the culture, the stories, the small details that native speakers never think to explain.

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