I’ve cooperated with learners from many different areas of work and business, from warehouse operators to managers, business owners, psychologists, and even actors or singers. I strongly believe in tailoring the lessons to the student’s needs and wants. One of my teaching instructors once said: “If you want to teach someone a specific area of a foreign language, you have to become an expert in that area.” This thought strongly resonates with me as I am a naturally curious person. What I don’t already know, we can learn together.

I’m familiar with a wide range of language-teaching systems. I have extensive experience with the conversational style, the communicative method, and even some less common ways of teaching, such as the Callan method. I believe a language course should always have a structure; hence, I am not a big proponent of the pure conversational style of teaching because such lessons can slip into pointless chatting about a small range of recurring topics. The benefits of that are, in my opinion, limited. Therefore, I prefer to work with a good resource book, which I can enrich according to the student’s needs.

I believe that the most natural way of learning is this: First, you observe people in a specific situation, e.g. asking for directions, giving a presentation, or delivering a sales pitch. You then decide how this situation relates to you. Finally, you practice being in that situation in a controlled environment until you can use the language confidently.