The Founder
Language is how we reach each other, everything else at Sobremesa follows from that
Meet Lydia
I’m Lydia Iracheta, but my friends call me Lili.
I’ve been teaching Spanish for over twenty years. I’ve worked with complete beginners and advanced speakers, led a language school for five years, and I collaborate with Difusión, one of the most respected publishing houses in Spanish language education. I know what good teaching looks like, and I know what’s missing from most of it.
But my path to language wasn’t linear. I studied Biology first. Then moved to Barcelona, where I fell into photography, motion design, and the city’s creative scene. I led a cultural education project in rural Guatemala, an experience that changed how I understood teaching entirely. I stopped thinking about instruction and started thinking about exchange.
When I came back, I knew. I did my Master’s in Spanish Language Teaching through International House, and it became my first school, the place where everything clicked. The methodology, the rigour, the craft of building a class that actually holds someone’s attention.
Twenty years later, I’d describe myself as a cultural curator, creative thinker, community builder, and a teacher, always.
Sobremesa came from all of that. From the belief that language is a way to connect with people, with culture, with parts of yourself you didn’t have words for yet.
I built this project to be the kind of learning experience I always wished existed: personal, intentional, and designed with the same care you’d put into anything that really matters to you.
What if learning Spanish could feel as meaningful
as the reason you wanted to learn it?
We believe
that the real risk is not changing.
that language is not a skill to acquire, it’s a way to see.
that how you learn matters as much as what you learn.
that creativity and rigour belong in the same room.
that culture sits at the center of language, never on the side.
that the best learning happens when it feels personal.
that details are a form of care.
Sobremesa is unconventional because I am.
I’ve never been interested in ordinary,
not in how I live, not in how I teach.
The deepest things in life ask you to be fully yourself. Language is one of them.
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