Boletín 131 - El paro juvenil, la emancipación tarde y Madrid.

+ free pages to learn/practise the present perfect subjunctive

Jan 19, 2025

Rent is sky-rocketing. House prices are going up. Wages are falling behind. Young Spanish people, on average, leave their parents’ house at 30 years of age.

👋Welcome to Boletín, an English-language newsletter covering historical, cultural and topical stories related to the A Level Spanish course. These newsletters accompany a student worksheet which can be downloaded freely here. This week:

Edition 131 of Boletín.
Free double page spread on the present perfect subjuntive.

Youth unemployment in Spain peaked in 2013 and currently sits at 26.9%

📌Issue 131

Apologies it has been a while, I know it seems most of my posts have started with that recently.

Balancing work and life is getting more difficult. Boletín, something I used to absolutely love doing every single week, has had to take a back seat. I recently even considered closing this site as every new subscriber email I received just served as a reminder that I had stopped doing something I loved.

Anyway, I’m currently teaching the education and employment topic to year 12 and thought that a Boletín bringing together a few articles together might be a nice way to synthesise a few pieces of information into one resource.

Apologies that I can’t write more extensively at the moment, my two-year-old is just about to wake up!

Edit: He woke up.

What I can say, very quickly before I go, is that I haven’t been entirely unproductive these last few months. In the background I’ve been working quite hard on a second edition of my grammar workbook. If anybody (including students) would like a sneak peek, then do get in touch but for now edition 1 is doing well and I’m proud to say is helping lots of people!

An introduction to Spanish grammar (CEFR A1 - B2)

If you like what I’ve been doing with Boletín for the last ~~four~~ five years or like me, you like buying language books then consider checking out the book I released last week. It’s called Spanish grammar workbook: An ambitious, jam-packed introduction to Spanish grammar for complete beginners, intermediate learners and GCSE students. The reviews are currently coming in and I’m delighted with them!