Maitena BerruecoVitoria-Gasteiz 06/23/2024 07:00h.
There are already 6 books published, to date, by the Vitorian.Euskadi Editorial
It has already sold 7,000 books and Dutch schools are interested in using them
He has published six books and is already working on a children’s line “with Macarena and Carlitos as protagonists”
Amaya Gasull arrived in Holland 23 years ago “for love” and runs the ‘La Española’ academy there.
In 2001, Amaya Gasull moved “for love” more than 1,300 kilometers away from his native Vitoria to live in Rotterdam (Holland). A new beginning, in a different country and with a new language, which “I learned quite quickly because I am good at it,” were not obstacles for our protagonist, who managed to create her own little Spain with ‘The Spanish’.
This academy to teach Spanishstarted “with only two students” and today has 17 teachers and teaches the language to more of 400 dutch. “It is always packed, the Dutch are increasingly obsessed with learning Spanish because they are very into traveling and discovering new places,” explains its director.
This Vitorian, who studied Special Education at the University of Salamanca and who wrote “compulsively” from a very young age, soon realized that teaching Spanish in Dutch lands required a manual: “There was a lack of hooking material, with which they laughed and, at the same time, learned.”
Love and grammar
This lack allowed him to continue his passion for writing and thus The literary love story of Jan Willem and Isabel was born, a Dutchman who falls in love with a girl from Vitoria. With him, the reader witnesses the couple’s future, learns aspects of the culture of the Basque Country and also learns grammar. Yes, grammar: “It works super well” to learn, for example, “the use of the subjunctive when seeing how the character hesitates.”
He has sold more than 7,000 copies at his Rotterdam academy.Euskadi Editorial
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The six books that has been published so far, have illustrations of different corners of the capital of Álava, Bilbao and other places in the Basque Country, because we have to break stereotypes and that “they do not limit themselves to associating Spanish with Seville and flamenco”. For this reason, this Vitorian is fascinated that in Aruba or Curacao, the Dutch islands in the Caribbean where she has been residing and where her manuals are used, “there are people right now saying: I’m going to Treviño.”
In total, this author has sold more than 7,000 copies at his academy in Rotterdam and more and more dutch schools that they are interested in using them in their classrooms. In fact, he is currently working on adapting the texts for use in schools.
After 23 years in Rotterdam, Amaya and her family have returned to Vitoria.Euskadi Editorial
This teacher, director, businesswoman and writer, as well as a mother of four children, has managed to carve out a niche for herself in the Netherlands and has done so by staying true to her essence, “little by little and putting a lot of love into what I do”, like she likes to make it clear. A philosophy that she took to Do not sign with a publisher to avoid distorting your books. “They warned me that it would be impossible to get to Dutch schools” and “I have done it,” she congratulates herself. Of course, the fact that an agreement with that company to publish her books did not materialize does not diminish the enthusiasm of this writer to, perhaps, in the future find another publisher more similar to her and her creatures, her books. her.
Macarena and Carlitos, the children’s line
In the pages of Amaya’s books, Isabel and Jan Willem have already married and their two children, Macarena and Carlitos will be the protagonists of the children’s line in which she is now immersed and which will narrate how little Macarena arrives in Vitoria without speaking Spanish and how she learns it.
‘Everything under control’ is the title of his latest book.Euskadi Editorial
‘Everything under control’ is the title of Amaya Gasull’s latest book, a reflection of how she herself likes to have things in her life, and it seems that she achieves it. With ‘La Española’, winds up in Rotterdam, Amaya and her family return to their Basque roots and now the adventures of their characters will be more than ever ‘made in’ Vitoria because they will not only have Vitoria and its surroundings as a setting, but that are written from here, feature audios and videos made “by our family and friends” and are also printed in the capital of Alava. Vitorian books to teach Spanish in Holland. There it is nothing.
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