Steven from Scotland

Is fior thoil leam na leasanan Gaidhlig agam le Steaphan! 'S e tidsear air leth a th' ann! (I love my Gaelic lessons with Steven. He is an exceptional teacher. Do not hesitate if you want to learn to speak Gaelic. That's what I love about our lessons--he MAKES me speak by asking questions he knows I can somewhat understand and makes me push my limits.)

Steven provided a series of pictures for me to describe and encouraged me to practise using a variety of verbs in the past tense. It was a really useful lesson in trying to be more ambitious with verb choices and use different types of sentence for descriptions.

Nice teacher very adaptable who has clear educational goal for each lesson but is ready to make room to answer questions that are not part of the lesson and explain grammatiacal and/or custom issue behind each student's question. A very enjoyable learning experience

He taught me some words and phrases that were interesting to me. 'Dia an thoiseach' (God be willing) ' 'S E Bheatha' (Your Wellcom) As well as teaching me the more literal meaning of these phrases 'Dia an thoiseach' Witch mean's something along the lines of God is in front I belive. and ' 'S E Bheatha' It's His life, His meaning God's. I love that he taught me the more literal meaning of the phrases I think that language and language differences are really interesting and I'm looking forward to the next lesson!

Steven has been encouraging me to speak more and more, and furnishing me with the vocabulary I need, so that I'm now able to converse at some length, making plenty of mistakes of course, which Steven helps me to improve on by rephrasing my mistake as a question, using the vocabulary or grammar that I had been aiming for, so that I can then answer with the correct version. A language-learning app or self-study course book won't help you like that!

Steven has been continuing to help me with my fluency and range of expression, and is always encouraging, whether I manage to say what I meant to or don't quite get it right. We've been working our way through a short story to practice pronunciation and comprehension, and I've been happy to find that I'm getting faster and more confident in reading, and recognising and understanding turns of phrase and idioms as they reoccur.