LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE MEANS TO UNDERSTAND AND LIVE ITS CULTURE
… and practice it every single day in any possible way. My teaching techniques and linguistic skills make sure you achieve your language goals step-by-step in a smooth manner.
MEET LENA, FOUNDER, LANGUAGE COACH & COMMUNITY BUILDER
Schönen guten Tag!
Are you looking for a native German speaker or someone who can answer your questions about speaking German in practical situations? Maybe your biggest wish is to be able to communicate with certain persons and this stresses you to become fluent as soon as possible. I can help! So you get the real-time experience you deserve.
Take a seat, get comfy and let me tell you what “Zitronenkuchen” (engl.: lemon cake) has to do with me helping you.
I’m a Native German Teacher and Coach from West Germany and have 10 years of teaching and tutoring experience in adult education in Germany and Canada. I aim to support German learners in their goal to effectively communicate in German by coaching them through the learning process. I have a very deep passion for sharing conversations with people with diverse cultural backgrounds. It is such a pleasure for me to share the German language with others along with learning each and everyone’s own unique cultural values. I am tremendously curious about language-related and cultural-related peculiarities. That’s because I truly believe we are how we act.
MY APPROACH & PHILOSOPHY
respect | communication | positive thinking
“My personal ambition is to be as comprehensible as possible while providing interesting and lively lessons. To me, teaching means to motivate every learner in his/her endeavour to learn a foreign language and to give the best and most appropriate support. I believe that speaking is a very important aspect of learning a new language, therefore, I value and focus on communication and dialogues. To practice fluency, I like to work with “chunks” (repetitive sentence structures). I feel most successful when I manage to inspire the creativity of my learners, and to witness their excitement from discovering, analyzing and practising German intuitively, in a non-judgmental learning environment. Sometimes, all you need is a good vibe!”
I’M A LANGUAGE ENTHUSIAST, COMMUNITY BUILDER AND A LOVER OF THE GOOD LIFE.
Here’s what I truly believe in:
ATMOSPHERE
Because best learning progress is made in a non-judgmental, stress-free and positive learning environment in which learners are encouraged to try their skills without being afraid of making mistakes.
AUTONOMY
Let’s face it: Learning a foreign language means understanding a foreign culture and living it.
Become a German-Goal-Getter and put yourself into context with the German language on a daily basis.
INTUITION
Because learning by doing and learning from experience while addressing the right learning style is the best way to learn.
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.“
CERTIFICATIONS
Goethe Institute DLL Teacher Trainings
DLL Certifications
Link to other associations
GETVICO: German teacher conference hosted by Goethe-Institute and the 'American Association of Teachers of German' (AATG) | Topics: teaching with help of digital media, feedback techniques, error correction and coping with heterogeneity
Groupe LDL: Workshop about Neurolinguistic Programming with Eugenie Mercier
