This could be the most exciting moment of your English journey...finding the right guide to help you achieve fluency!  I think it could be me!!  My goal during the Trial Lesson is to make you feel comfortable and excited about continuing your English journey with me.  I want to assess your needs and goals.  And let's take some time to preview your learning program and see the tools we'll use so you can be successful.

Please be prepared to answer questions about where you're from, what you study/do for work, and some of your favorite things.  It's a great way to break the ice (and for me to evaluate your English level 😉).

I'll make sure I tell you a little bit about me so that I'm not a mystery to you.  But let's not forget that you're the star of this journey!  Back to you...

After talking about some basic facts about you, let's talk about English.  Before the Trial Lesson, you would've filled out the contact form, so we'll review that together.  I'll ask you about your goals and needs...what do you feel like you need to focus on and what have you been doing to study up to this point?

With all of that out of the way, we'll preview the course I would recommend for your needs.  I'll talk to you about why it will help, what you can expect, and the resources that we'll use.

I can't wait to meet you!  Please reach out if you have any questions.

One of the biggest roadblocks to becoming fluent in a language is the lack of opportunities to practice speaking.  Granted, now we have AI to chat with, and believe it or not, that can be an incredible resource.  But there's still nothing like the natural, human-to-human, interaction that comes with a conversation between two real-life people.  The feedback, verbal and nonverbal, will prove to be invaluable and help you reach fluency so much faster.

At the end of each conversation lesson, you will receive a guide with bonus words and phrases and grammar points that will help you continue to become more natural over time.

Free Talk | Conversation Practice With A Native 🙊

If you think that being advanced means you don't have to worry about grammar anymore, you're wrong.  I know you don't like to admit it, but grammar is important, no matter what your level is.  

But it is true that you probably don't need to worry about simple tenses and parts of speech at this point.  So this course is designed for people who have a high intermediate or advanced level of fluency but want to learn grammar structures that will help them polish their skills.

We'll review conditional statements, perfect tenses, hedging, and idiomatic grammar principles.

While I have a curriculum that we can follow, I am always open to focusing on just the topics you feel like you need the most.

English Grammar For ADVANCED Students 🧱

I know you don't like to admit it, but grammar is important.  If you are a beginner or in the early intermediate stages of learning English, knowing grammar structures will especially be helpful in getting you off to a good start in expressing yourself.

This course is designed to make you familiar with the basic structures of English.  We'll review parts of speech, verb tenses, and ways to make our sentences more complex.

While I have a curriculum that we can follow, I am always open to focusing on just the topics you feel like you need the most.

English Grammar For BEGINNERS 🧱

There's a lot to be said about colloquial English...you know, slang, idioms, jargon...all of that good stuff.  This course is designed to help people get acquainted with colloquial English in a general way.  In any language, it's a weird feeling to know you've spent so much time learning the ins and outs of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary according to your level...only to find that it's hard to understand the speech of the people.  Why does this happen?  It's probably because we've missed the cultural aspect of the language!  Much of what we say is based on what we see, what we hear, how we feel, and more.  So let's skip the awkward feeling.  Get acquainted with the word on the street!

In this crash course, we'll learn about the difference between the types of colloquial speech, and discuss variations of English (UK, U.S., Australia, etc.).  We'll even learn how to recognize idioms in pop culture and make use of abbreviations as we role-play.

The Word On The Street | Colloquial English Crash Course

Through this 120 hour TESOL course, I learned the basics of linguistics, strategies that would help me use a student’s primary language to teach them a new language, and how to motivate students who are new to the English language.

As a high school student, I was dual-enrolled in a college, allowing me to earn college credits and complete a college degree by the time I was 18 years old.

For two years, prior to receiving a professional English teaching certificate, I worked as a tutor for students at the local community college who acquired English as a second language.  We focused mainly on academic English - grammar concepts and improving our conversation skills.  I had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of students from different backgrounds, though the majority of my students spoke Spanish as their native language

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For four years, I worked as a private ESL tutor for adults who were moving from other countries to the United States for education and secular work opportunities.  Many of these ones had a basic level of English, so to assist them with the transition to a new country, they were assigned to work with a tutor to improve their skills in basic communication and pronunciation.