Dear readers, authors, members of the Scientific and Editorial Boards:

We are pleased, once again, to present this new issue of the Journal Verbeia. A number full of hope and motivated by the relief of having managed to get almost completely out of a global Pandemic, which has affected our society so much, and specifically, the way we relate and live together. For this reason, we have not relented in our efforts to publish number 7, and to continue working with the same enthusiasm that we once had when we published number 0. The linguistic diversity of this number demonstrates, on the one hand, the thematic scope of the magazine, including articles in the two base languages ​​of publication, which are Spanish and English, and emphasizing the power of teaching Spanish as a foreign language. And on the other hand, the other two pillars of Verbeia, cultural and literary diversity, which we show in this new issue through literary and essay works, genre and cultural studies, educational proposals or translation studies and reviews. I am proud to write these words and to be the transmitter of that strong feeling of moving forward with this project, having overcome and eliminated those contradictory feelings that two years ago during the Pandemic and lockdown, we declared in our magazine. The publication of number 7 makes us witnesses of overcoming and keeping on working, and taking steps forward with effort and great enthusiasm. Once again, many thanks to all of you who make Verbeia possible.

Isabel Morales Jareño. Co-editor and Secretary of Verbeia.