Florence Detry has a degree in Romance Philology (Université Catholique de Leuven, Belgium), a master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Complutense University of Madrid) and a doctorate from the University of Girona. Her field of specialization and research focuses on the process of learning phraseology in a foreign language and the corresponding didactic repercussions. She is the author of several articles on the subject and a book on learning Catalan LE. She is currently a French teacher at two university schools in Barcelona (Tourism), attached to the UDG.