1. MARTÍNEZ SOLER VISITS IES PEDRO JIMÉNEZ He’s the “boss” of 20 minutes, and he has
, IN BAZA been the editor of other newspapers. His
wife is from Boston and used to work for
Last 27th April, Martínez Soler, the Director the Wall Street Journal in Spain.
of the popular and free newspaper “
20minutes”, gave two lectures at IES Pedro ANA
Jiménez Montoya. During his visit, he also
He went to Cambridge University and he
spent some time with a group of bilingual
learnt a lot of English. His wife is from
students talking about his experience as to
Boston. He has lived in New York and he
learning languages.
loves this city, now he works in a magazine
JOSE ANTONIO called “20 minutes” and he has worked for
other magazines and newspapers such as
It was a very interesting conversation with Cambio 16, el País, etc.
Jose, he was very nice. It was a very good
detail from him come and speak to us. IRENE
JUAN PABLO He lived in New York in the 70s. There he
met his wife. Now he’s the director of 20
I liked that he came to tell us about this minutes. He studied Economics and teaches
interesting things. at Almeria University. After finishing his
studies, he became a journalist.
PACO
JOSE LUIS
The man who came here was very funny
and his English was very clear. He took some courses at Harvard University,
and had to learn a lot of English, with his
JOSE VALLEJO
wife’s help. He has lived in United States for
The person who came yesterday was from a long time and he is a very good journalist.
Almeria, but he studied (where?) Now he is the boss of 20 minutes, one of
the most-widely read magazines in Spain.
ALBERTO
FRAN
He was an interesting person, funny and
serious at the same time. I liked that he When he had to go to Harvard University in
came here, as he had very interesting ten days, he didn’t know how to speak and
stories to tell us. It was really kind of him to write English very well, but he filled in a
come and visit us. form to apply for a scholarship and said that
he could speak it and write it excellently, in
MARIO
order to be elected for the course- he lied,
well he exaggerated. So his wife had to
He studied in Harvard and when he was
teach him English, which was not difficult
studying , his English was elementary but he
for her as she was from Boston. He had to
said he was an expert in English so as to get
learn English in ten days, ten hours per day,
a fellowship in Harvard.
one hundred hours! But finally he managed
ANTONIO to learn English and speak it very well.
Finally he went to Harvard University.
During his stay he had to give a few lectures

2. in English, and the problem was that CINTHIA
although he could speak English , he didn’t
He is working in a newspaper called “20
understand the questions people asked him,
minutes”. He has been living in America and
so his wife would sit at the front and
has got a son.
whispered the question to him (but in
Spanish, so that he could understand and LUCIA
answer back)
He is a journalist, and works for 20 minutes,
MARIA H an Andalusian newspaper. He’s got a wife
and has lived in New York.
He told us a story about his English.
ALMUDENA
MARIA M.
He is the director of a newspaper. His wife
He went to New York and he didn’t know
had to teach him English because he got a
how to speak English.
fellowship to take a course at Harvard
RAMÓN University but his level was elementary. He
lived in New York for quite a long time, and
He told us about journalism, his job and a he thinks that it is a beautiful city. New York
little about his life and biography. The is a sort of melting pot of cultures.
conversation was very interesting.
JULIO
He learned English in a few months. He
even could teach at University.
CARLOS
He has been living and working in New York,
and he told us that it is a very beautiful city.
He also told us about his work as a
journalist and gave us some advice; for
example, he told us that if you want to
become a journalist, the first thing you have
to do is to study a career – Econocmics,
Law, History, etc..- and then study
journalism because journalism is an arts and
crafts thing , you learn the profession by
working as a journalist but it is better if you
can specialize yourself in some kind of field.
In his case, he studied Economics and in fact
he teaches Economics at Almeria
University . Finally , he encouraged us to
learn English because this is the
international language and it will give us a
lot of opportunities.