Juan Carlos is an experienced language teacher, having taught Spanish for over 25 years. He has been a facilitator at the Centre for Continuing Education since 2012. Juan Carlos holds a Master of Applied Linguistics and is currently completing a PhD at the University of New England.

Juan Carlos' experience includes teaching Spanish in Germany, where he completed a Master of Science with a full scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He has also taught French in Peru where, as a staff member of the Bureau de Coopération Linguistique, he organised French courses for Specific Purposes (medicine and hospital management). In Australia Juan Carlos has been a language tutor at various Universities. On two occasions, he participated in the international final of La Dictée des Amériques (a French orthography competition in Canada).

Juan Carlos is passionate about languages. In addition to Spanish, French and English, he also speaks German, Italian, and Portuguese, and has studied Russian, Modern Greek, and Japanese. He combines his knowledge of linguistics and world culture with a good sense of humour, delivering motivating and animated classes.