About me
My name is Carlos Quiles, I am 26 years old, and I live in Badajoz, a Spanish town near the Portuguese border. My father’s family is from Alicante, hence my Valencian surname. And no, I am obviously neither the American actor, nor the famous Spanish motor cyclist with my same names.
I have studied Law and Management - I began with Economics, but decided later to go practical - at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, spent some time in Cambridge, made some undergraduate courses at Middlebury College, spent a year in the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin as Erasmus student (in Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre), and I also made some courses for Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at University of London external programme, although my passion was always linguistics. During all those years in Madrid I studied - with courses and self-study methods alike - a wide range of languages, from English to Basque, always without really finishing any of them.
I travel frequently to Portugal, and I’ve also been in Paris, Zurich and Prague, although I think I haven’t traveled that much outside Spain - I just don’t like sightseeing, I prefer to meet different people, and one cannot do that by spending 2 weeks in a foreign city.
I worked some time for a Broker Financial Group, but left it and spent a year to set in motion a dream about a future United Europe under one common language, Indo-European. A common country where we can move and communicate with others as US citizens do in their country, not just as exchange students or workers, or to sell or buy things. And, at the same time, I wanted a Indo-European Language Revival to be based in my poor and remote region, Extremadura, to promote it in the European Union. Thus, we created the Indo-European Language Revival Group (now an incorporated Association) to promote a set of grammatical rules, the so-called ‘Europaio’ language system, necessary for a modern Proto-Indo-European language, and have since received some help from the University and the Regional Government through public companies.
After that Europaio year, I repeated the Exam for Access to University for the option Biology and Clinical studies, and I am currently studying Medicine at the University of Extremadura. This IE Revival project and my computer knowledge are partly the consequence of the free time I had before entering the Faculty, so I guess I’ll dedicate more time to my Medicine studies than to these hobbies in the following years…
I am not proficient in any language, but I think I could say I speak Spanish, English and German; I also speak French, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Russian and Dutch well enough to maintain simple conversations; and I could understand different European and other Indo-European languages.
I am especially interested in dialects, and thus in minority and regional languages too; I usually learn a language to be able to study its dialects, as this alone has (for me) a greater value than the best standardized grammar. In fact, I came to the idea of reviving Indo-European in 2004 when reading about the Lusitanians, the Indo-European peoples who spoke Indo-European Celtic-like dialects and lived in zones of modern southwestern Spain and central Portugal, just before the Roman invasion.
