Sara Marugan Oliva

I am a Catalan philologist with eighteen years of teaching experience in secondary, high school and adult education, and I also teach at university as an associate lecturer at the University of Barcelona.

Every year I mark and assess official exams — PAU, PAP, M25/M45, C1 and C2 — for the DGPL, CPNL and CIFALC. I know exactly what earns marks and what loses them, and that is what I teach my students: to prepare for the real exam, not an imaginary one.

That experience led to my own registered method, «La teoria de la síl·laba ®», which helps reduce spelling mistakes by starting from the word's smallest unit. With four hours of well-directed work, the results show.

I also write: I am the author of «Ramon Llull com mai te l'han explicat», I have been publishing articles on language and proofreading for over ten years, and I take part in workshops, book fairs and radio programmes.

And a personal note: before devoting myself to language, I was a high-performance fencer. The discipline, persistence and strategy a fencing piste demands are exactly what I bring to teaching. Only the weapon has changed: now it is the word.