¡Anchoa es Castilla!

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Spanish & English Online Tutor from la Mancha. “The letter, with fun enters.” www.anchoaescastilla.com See the “(ñ) Learning Spanish” feed! Quoting real posts to explain language use stuff. (She/ them)

The word ser (SER) which means "to be" in Spanish, shaped as an elephant with his mouth open and trunk up in the air
Small, toy-like rollerskates made in mostly hard plastic. They’re bright orange, blue and yellow and show some signs of wear.
A quad rollerskate with leopard print and purple details, and intensely pink wheels is laid on the floor. A hand appears and spins a wheel twice, making it light up.
A screenshot showing a person with a light skin tone and short, dark hair wearing a white jumper with black lines, an orchid necklace, round glasses and white headphones, smiles gently. Overall chromatic vibe of the picture is creamy whites and wooden tones, somewhat warm from the sunlight coming from the right.
Kitchen drawers with yellow post-its that say “cutlery” and “pans” in Japanese, English and Spanish
Disaster girl meme: a close up of a white child looking cheekily ay the camera while in the background a house is burning
Strips of paper with the following questions written in pencil: 1. where did you travel to last summer? 2. What is your favourite hobby? 3. What was your last phone conversation about? 4. What do you like to read? 5. What is your favourite word in English and why? 6. What did you eat for breakfast today? 7. What is your least favourite Spanish food? 8. What do you like to do in your free time?
A big plastic container full of popcorn kernels
On the top we see a silhouette in desaturated purples, formed by the word "ser" (SER), where the S forms the head and the chest. On the bottom, a full-body silhoette stands in the center of a circle, around them, filling the circle is the word "estar" (ESTAR).
Marc Rebillet (a shirtless white man) behind his deck on a stage with inflatables behind him and a strong red light from his set in London 2024
A British Council open learning training courses certificates awarded to Cristina for successfully completing 12 hours of digital competences for teaching English on March 30, 2026
A white person with round glasses, a black t-shirt and very short, dark hair. They are looking to the camera in three quarters.
A whiteboard with “The world is your oyster” written in black on the centre, and around it in different colours there’s “it rings a bell”, “up to you”, “pet peeve”, “grab” and “stuck”
Cartel amarillo con el siguiente texto: Let's Speak English! ¡Hablemos inglés! Habla, pregunta, practica, escucha, juega... El grupo decide el contenido. Un espacio seguro para usar inglés, sin presiones. Aportación voluntaria. Martes, 24 de Febrero de 2026, de 6 a 8 de la tarde. Con ¡Anchoa es Castilla! (www.anchoaescastilla.com) En Manolo no sabe que es un gato, Librería y espacio cultural, Plaza de la Catedral 6, Albacete
A screenshot from metazooa.com where read “You win! The answer is ‘mole’” and “19 guesses remaing”, (out of 20). In the center there is a tag, “Metazoa” linked with another reading “Mole”.
Bed header with a black, articulated arm holding an ebook.
A poster with a custardy yellow bacground with the following text in Spanish: Let’s speak English! ¡Hablemos en inglés! Habla, pregunta, practica, escucha, juega… El grupo decide el contenido. Un espacio seguro para hablar inglés, sin presiones. Aportación voluntaria Lunes, 9 de Febrero de 2026, de seis a ocho de la tarde. Con ¡Anchoa es Castilla! (www.anchoaescastilla.com) en la librería Manolo no sabe que es un gato (the logo on the left of the name is a black cat’s silouette behind 5 stacked books), Plaza de la Catedral 6, Albacete In English, is a meetup to speak English organised by ¡Anchoa es Castilla! on Monday the 9th of February in a bookstore in Albacete called “Manolo doesn’t know he’s a cat” where the group will decide what to see with no pressure. The price is pay-what-you-want.
A pair of dark green slippers on a display, the left one has the text “Estás para”, which would loosely translate as “you are for”, and the right one says “comerte avocados” which is a game on words with “A bocados (BOCADOS)” and would loosely translate as “eating you in bites”.
White person in a hospital gown with a red rash visible on the chest, neck and face
Picture of a white person in a hospital gown, pulling it down a bit, showing red spots all over their face, neck and shoulder
A white person with dark hair taking a selfie in a mirror. They’re wearing a hospital gown and light green, buttoned-up dressing gown in top.
A cardboard template for a bookholder. It looks like a couple of trapezes with their bases united by a rectangle.
A white person in a white hospital gown, smiling to the camera and doing a thumbs up with both hands. In their right hand there is an IV plug and bandage around it.
Two women talking in a busy pub, the one on the left, looking around, does a gesture with both her hands, facing up, opening and closing her fingers. In the video she says “está abarrotado” which means “it is crowded”.
Two women in a busy pub, one of them says “está abarrotao” and makes a gesture with her hands, opening and closing her fingers, facing up.
A close up of a gray cat laying on top of a person’s lap, wearing brownish corduroy trousers.
A 6x10 grid of randomised yellow letters on a desaturated purple background
Two socks with a desaturated purple background and a grid of randomised yellow letters on them.
A person quickly opening and closing their hand, palm facing up and stretched fingers, tips touching upon closing.
Screenshot of a map of the Soho area in London. Soho has a big, red circle around it, with the interior in transparent red, next to it, Charing Cross Station is also circled in red.
A red circle with "por" inside (POR), and a green circle with "para" (PARA) outside.
The back cover of the book comma which has a small red fingerprint in the centre and a quote from the book: “he was lying on his side, one arm draped casually across his stomach, the elbow of the other sticking out at an angle, as if he were about to use the hand to prop up his chin. Had it not been for the vast gas that had, to all intense and purposes, separated his head from the rest of his body, and a copious amount of blood that Covid the walls, the floor and almost every inch of his clothing, you might have thought he was simply taken a nap. I moved slowly, wary of standing on any potential evidence, my plastic over shoes sticking slightly to the still tacky blood on the floor, my eyes scanning the scene for familiar shapes and patterns in the blood - the tell tale marks from the victim or the killer which would enable me to reconstruct the sequence of events.”
Cover of a book. It has a big, red fingerpring in the middle and the title “Written in Blood: the remarkable casebook of Britain’s top forensic scientists”
A desaturated purple spiral notebook with a drawing of an anchovy with a speech bubble saying "estoy aprendiendo español" which means "I am learning Spanish" in Spanish
Colourful roulette with some sentences in Spanish written on it. The selected one, in blue, reads "Aprender español ha hecho que yo..." which means something like "Learning Spanish has made me..." in Spanish.
Purple tear-off flyer with “¡Anchoa es Castilla!” Written at the top. On the center, there are two anchovies with two speech bubbles, the one on the top says both in English and Spanish “Spanish and English online lessons”, and the one at the bottom says “tailored, flexible and fun”. At the bottom there is the website www.anchoaescastilla.com and under it a row of fish that fit together, one looking up in the next looking down. We see a hand tearing off one of these fishes and showing it to the camera to show the website name also written inside of the fish
A number of supermarket plastic bags, neatly folded (in most cases) into triangles and laid in rows on a table. Unas cuantas bolsas de plástico de supermercado, muy bien dobladas (en casi todos los casos) en triangulos y puestas en fila en una mesa.
Two people in winter clothes (the one on the left in a teal fleece, the one on the right in a soft pink coat) smiling at the camera, there’s a baranda on the right behind of which we can see some water from the river.
Vintage blue compact Olivetti typewriter
Unspecific line drawing on paper showing a man sitting on a chair ans holding a microphone
Business card with "¡Anchoa es Castilla!" in the center in yellow, in a fun font. The exclamation marks are like anchovies, and there is an anchovie to each side: one purplish, one yellowish. There is a tag line saying "Clases de español & inglés online" under the logo, and a web address: "www.anchoaescastilla.com". Background is darkish, desaturated burgundy.
A light blue British Council / Teaching English certificate reading: BRITISH COUNCIL TeachingEnglish Open learning training courses Awarded to Cristina [Redacted] for successfully completing 12 hours of Teaching English: How to teach vocabulary on 21/10/2025 Signed Michael Connolly Director English and School Education
A page from “Destroy this diary” by Keri Smith, printed in a pink paint effect, with the text in Spanish “Garabatea sin control, violentamente, sin orden ni concierto”, which means “Doodle without control, violently, without rhyme or reason”.
A page from the book “Destroy this diary” by Keri Smith. It depicts a red and white target and, in Spanish it says “Lanza Algo. Un lápiz, una pelota impregnada de pintura” which means “Throw something. A pencil, a ball soaked in paint”.
Cover of the book “Destroy this diary” by Keri Smith. It depicts a very busy and colourful collage of different paper bits.
Screenshot of a wordle screen with some "share" buttons, the one at the top has a number one by its side, the ones at the bottom, with different social media icons, have a number two, both numbers in a green circle and with arrows pointing at the buttons
"¿Qué es lo más bonito que te ha pasado esta semana?" which in English means "what is the nicest thing that has happened to you this week?"
"I met Cristina during a language exchange. She offered me a free lesson, and I accepted out of courtesy. I don't like learning through formal classes. Now we have two classes a week, and I get upset if we have to cancel one. Cristina is very flexible in her teaching style. The classes are fun and very helpful. We laugh a lot. She inspires me to learn without pressure. I actually started a Spanish blog as another way to practice. We use it as a jumping-off point to discuss ways to express myself more naturally and with less <<Spanglish>>. My Spanish level and confidence have improved rapidly with Cristina. Thank you so much!" ​ Written on 4th of September 2025 (Translated from Spanish using Google translate and minor additions to keep it as closest to the original as possible)
Close up where we only see a worn jumper with horizontal white and mustard stripes, and in the center has the silhouette of a sitting cat, in black.
On a desaturated burgundy bacground, a two-tone yellow spinning roulette with questions inside. On top it's written "Question of the day" with some instructions, on the bottom the question in Spanish "¿Qué llevas puesto hoy?" which means "What are you wearing today?"
A New Rock shoe store with a big boot coming out of the wall, above the sign
A bi-yellow spinning wheel with tex on each section. On the top, in yellow over a dark grey background it says”Question of the day” and some short instructions underneath.
White text over a black background, both in Spanish and English, saying: “Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción. Paz y Justicia para Palestina” “When human rights are at stake, silence is not an option. Peace and Justice for Palestine”
Tuxedo cat laying on her side, napping on the carpet which is bathed in sunlight.
A female sparrow (left) and a male sparrow (right), which has a stronger, rust-like brown colour on the top, and dark spots on the face and chest.
Cristina, a white person with wavy hair in a side bob, dressed in a light grey hoodie, playing guitar in a sofa. The background is a white wall with a frame partially visible.
A very cloudy and somewhat rainy 10-day forecast.
Closeup of a blackboard where we see a small mouse doodle with a paw up and a speech bubble saying “Estoy aquí”
A blurry nocturnal photo of a person balancing on a slackline. The top of the body is blurred by the photographic exposure.