{"id":15,"date":"2023-01-05T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learndix.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:35:45","slug":"pasion-por-los-idiomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.learndix.com\/en\/pasion-por-los-idiomas\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About me<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Silvia Arenas, CEO<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a child, I was lucky enough to grow up in a melting pot of people from many different countries and, believe it or not, that place was, and still is, the Costa del Sol.<\/p>

It never seemed strange to me that my neighbour Katrina was Finnish, or that one of my best friends was from Munich.<\/p>

From the age of three I learnt German, the language of my school, the German School in Marbella<\/strong>.<\/p>

I loved being there, even though some years it took me over an hour each way on the bus (it wasn't that bad: once I started getting homework I did it on the journey, and then I could devote myself to tennis, another of my passions).<\/p>

When I was 11, one of my dreams came true: I made my first trip outside Spain.<\/p>

My grandmother, a true gem and ahead of her time, decided we should visit my aunt, her daughter, who lived in Freiburg.\u00a0<\/p>

She didn't speak German, so she invited me to come along and act as her \u201ctranslator<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>

On the way there I proudly translated everything we needed, and we made it to my aunt's house without a hitch.
We spent a wonderful few days with the family, and I got to stuff myself with apfelstrudel.<\/p>

But on the way back we went through French-speaking Switzerland, where people spoke a very strange language that sounded forced to me and that I couldn't understand.\u00a0<\/p>

That made a big impression on me.<\/p>

When we got to the airport, there was some kind of problem.<\/p>

I don't know if it was the tickets or if the man just wanted to tell us what he'd had for breakfast. All I know is that I was really frustrated at not understanding a thing.<\/p>

I thought we were lost and would never get back to Spain.<\/p>

But my grandmother, who as I said was worth her weight in gold, started speaking French without batting an eyelid, and she was someone who blinked constantly.<\/p>

I was speechless, gazing in admiration at \u201cBubu\u201d (as I always affectionately called her), who was going to get us out of that land of barbarians and take us safely home.<\/p>

On the way home she told me that as a girl she had gone to a French boarding school in Cestona, and she clearly got by very well.<\/p>

The truth is, I felt useless, lost in a language that made no sense to me.<\/p>

So much so that as soon as I got home, I stubbornly insisted that my parents sign me up for French lessons, so I would never feel that helpless in another country again.<\/p>

Thanks to this passion for languages and curiosity about other cultures, I have been able to travel and communicate without borders all over the world.<\/strong><\/p>

I studied International Business at ICADE<\/a> (Madrid) and ESB Business School<\/a> (Reutlingen).
It was an incredible experience that shaped my next direction after working at KPMG<\/a>, where I felt far removed from what my heart was telling me.<\/p>

So, as soon as I could, I went on to take my second degree, in Translation and Interpreting, at the University of Granada.<\/a><\/p>

That set me on the path to the company I founded almost two decades ago.<\/p>

But not before a spell at Peking University<\/a>, where I enjoyed total immersion in Chinese culture.<\/p>

My passion for kung fu was so great (I had been practising seriously for several years) that the ICO offered me a scholarship to study at the best \u201cuni\u201d in China.
Afterwards I stayed on for another year, until the frenzy of Chinese society got the better of me (a phenomenon expats know as \u201cBeijing burnout\u201d) and I returned to Spain.<\/p>

That is where what is now Learndix Language Experts began.<\/p>

I work with more than two hundred language professionals: translators, interpreters, coaches, teachers and au pairs, with leading experts in every sector.
We have offices in Madrid, M\u00e1laga and Frankfurt, and we solve language challenges for the whole world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I invite you to discover the amazing world of languages!<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sobre m\u00ed Silvia Arenas, CEO De peque\u00f1a, tuve la suerte de crecer en un lugar con un crisol de razas de diferentes pa\u00edses y aunque no te lo creas, eso era y es la Costa del Sol. Nunca me pareci\u00f3 raro que mi vecina Katrina fuera finlandesa o que una de mis mejores amigas fuera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSilvia Arenas y Learndix: nuestra pasi\u00f3n por los idiomas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Silvia Arenas, CEO de Learndix, y su pasi\u00f3n por los idiomas: de crecer en la Costa del Sol a fundar una empresa con sede en Madrid, M\u00e1laga y Frankfurt.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learndix.com\/en\/pasion-por-los-idiomas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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