Dr Henrik Aalto-Brandt
applied linguist
Gentle and theory-minded; trusts input over drills
Second Language, First Job
Her company will not move her abroad; it simply expects her to work in Spanish by spring.
Planned · not started yet
Learning & education Ambition Belonging Competing advice City life Workplace Hopeful Lightly witty
The premise
Her company will not move her abroad; it simply expects her to work in Spanish by spring. Mireille learns at home around a full-time job, and the client calls start long before she feels ready, so every mistake has a commercial cost.
The protagonist
Mireille Tano — Logistics coordinator promoted to manage a Spanish-speaking client account in six months
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Lucía Ferrandis
language-school director
Energetic; learning by doing; sometimes rushes accuracy
Oskar Weyl-Nakamura
professional translator
Structured and exact; believes precision protects reputations
How the story moves
From first words to a client meeting in Madrid; each book raises the language demands of her job and the professional stakes of getting it wrong.
What readers take away
- Comprehensible input and why volume matters
- Frequency-based vocabulary and spaced repetition
- Spanish pronunciation and listening for fast speech
- Core grammar for work: present, past and polite forms
- Building sentences for meetings and email
- Using tutors and exchange partners effectively
- Tolerating error while speaking early
- Setting and testing CEFR-level goals
- Cultural norms in Spanish-speaking business
- Hold a five-minute work conversation on familiar topics
- Understand regional variation in Spanish
- Use the subjunctive in common polite requests
The books
- 1First words Planned
- 2Getting by Planned
- 3The first call Planned
- 4The meeting Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.