About language, teaching… and life.

Languages have been fascinating to me ever since.

After my studies, first I was led into a corporate environment where for over a decade I successfully pursued a career as a management assistant.
During that time, languages were essential in my daily work life, also being the first point of contact for enquiries from all over the world.

Eventually, I found that languages and communication hadn’t only been key to my career, but also the one element entwined with all my major life experiences.

There was so much more to it than applying grammar correctly - which certainly is important in the sense that we need to know how to use our instruments. After all though, isn’t it all mostly about being able to express ourselves? Our thoughts, wishes, hopes and dreams. It allows us to interact with others in a unique and precise way.

Like art, my other passion, language to me many a times has been a bridge. It makes strangers our friends and takes us places we would like to be going.
From my point of view, language could also be considered a form of art - it is communication. It’s community. A new career. Trust. Friendship. Love. A home.

When it’s been all of these for me over the years… maybe that was not just my experience and I found it was time to look at the bigger picture… Knowing it was true for myself and seeing that learning a new language also for others sometimes can be closely linked to change, I felt like the overall individual situation was important to consider in the learning experience.

The way we feel and our perspective has an impact on the way we learn. So, even when looking forward to an upcoming change that maybe we actively chose, often times the element of the unknown potentially influences us. We are all different and our life journeys are in many senses very individual, still the overall principle that I wanted to found my new path on, could only be a holistic one.

From own experience, I knew one-suits-all concepts hadn’t worked too well for me. And to me it seemed natural to not even try to separate our personality from the presumed objective goals we are working on. I began to see the potential in this and found it made sense to consider this while the idea formed to accompany people on a part of their journey in my own way.

I started conceptualising and defining my cornerstones. I found the understanding for languages and putting myself in another person’s place have both always come easy to me. I also consciously wanted to create a space where people could bring in their story and topics they care about. This would lift the student’s learning experience to a different level and it would be complementary to who I am as a person, believing, the more I understand the individual, the better my support.

There has to be a certain level of grammar in the beginning to understand the basics of the language we learn, of course, mostly though we are free in the choice of our topics. We all know from our days in school or hobbies, the things we are interested in and care about somehow seem to be easier for us to memorise and the progress there is much more tangible for ourselves. Translating this to the courses I provide, I think it can be helpful indeed, to also learn with your favorite song’s lyrics, poem, an article about your hobby etc. It’s an offer and if you’d rather let yourself be guided, this is always an option, too.
Both is fine and we will go with the approach that works best for you.

My vision is to make your studying more than a language class, as individual as your motivation to learn a new language may be - you will be in the center of our partnership!