Elena

Elena was born in Russia, studied in Potsdam, Germany, and finally settled in Berlin, where she lived and worked for a long time. Elena speaks five languages and plans to learn more in the future. She strongly believes that the best language teachers are not simply experts, but also lifelong learners.

In addition to her passion for linguistics, Elena has a love for sports, especially surfing and skating, and is also involved in several social organizations that support women and minorities and which advocate for inclusivity.

The ultimate goal of her teaching is to make it fun for learners to interact and share their enthusiasm for the German language. She wants to help people feel at ease and be able to communicate easily in their everyday life in Germany. Elena believes that diversity and a multicultural mix enrich life. She strongly believes that getting to know a new culture and language opens doors to exciting new experiences.

Carlos

Carlos has been teaching English in Berlin and the surrounding areas since 2007. Since beginning his teaching career, he has completed a TEFL and FTBE accreditation and regularly attends teacher-training workshops to learn more. After completing his Bachelor of Liberal Arts, he moved to New York City where he worked as a day trader and then later ran his own dog walking and training business.  He's originally from New Orleans, a city that is known for its friendliness and easygoing culture. He believes that this comes through in his teaching style and helps to create a comfortable and fun learning environment.

Julia

Julia has been teaching English as a Foreign Language and Teacher Training in Europe, the Middle East, USA and China since 1990. Since beginning her teaching career, she has completed M.A. in Linguistics for TEFLA, and RSA/UCLES CELTA, and a Cert for Teaching in Higher Education. She has worked for Lancaster University, the British Council, Promethean Ltd, Oxford University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. After travelling extensively Julia now enjoys working from home in an online environment, helping students to achieve their language learning goals in a convenient and personalised environment.

She's originally from England and now lives in Scotland where she loves to walk in nature and see the changing seasons.

JC

JC has been teaching English for over 15 years. He is CELTA and TBLT certified. He comes from New York and has been living in Berlin since 2008. JC grew up bilingual with English and French. and graduated from an international school, and then Berklee College of Music. His approach is very relaxed yet at the same demanding. JC has taught students from A1-C2 Level. He is also a fan of incorporating new technologies such as ChatGPT into his lessons. He believes that like with music, learning takes time, patience, determination, and practice.

Katya

Katya is a qualified TEFLA English trainer from England with a BA in Russian Studies and History from Leeds University. She enjoys working as a teacher because she loves working with language and enjoys being together with non-native English-speaking people from different countries. She likes communicating with them and learning something about their culture and way of life. In her free time, she enjoys reading, going to the cinema, visiting new places in and outside Berlin and singing in her choir once a week. Katya is also interested in learning foreign languages and she is working on her German skills. She loves the diversity of Berlin. One thing she never had back at home was being able to travel into the countryside in a short time and experience all the forests and lakes all for the price of one S-Bahn ticket.

Nayra

Nayra graduated from a German school in Alexandria, Egypt, where she spent 14 years learning the German language and culture from native German speakers.

She later moved to Leipzig to study German as a foreign language, and she has taught German as a foreign language as a freelancer at various language schools in Leipzig and Berlin since 2016. Travel and languages are her passion and she enjoys often traveling to many destinations throughout the world.

Hildegard

Hildegard started working in Seattle for the world's largest language learning provider in 2011, and trained for the German market when she moved back to Berlin in 2019. Due to the Corona pandemic, teaching shifted from in person to online video conferencing, where it still mostly takes place today. As an economics graduate, she finds it interesting to learn about new expressions in the business world from course participants. Staying up to date was also a particular concern of hers during the most active part of her professional life, when she worked for 20 years as a freelance journalist for various public broadcasters and traveled extensively. That's where Hildegard's penchant for incorporating Deutsche Welle videos into her lessons comes from. She puts a lot of effort into acquiring supplementary materials that appeal to learners and encourage self-study. And from her time in Seattle comes the top priority: a lot of talking in class--by the participants, of course!

Cornelia

Cornelia has been teaching German as a second and foreign language since 2015, when she was asked by a professor if she wanted to volunteer to teach a group of refugees. She enjoyed the experience so much that in 2018 she started a second bachelor's degree in Spanish and German as a second and foreign language in order to obtain theoretical knowledge to complement her volunteer work experience. After several years of teaching, she decided to dedicate herself to language teaching full-time in 2021. Since then, Cornelia has been a freelance teacher of German as a second and foreign language. In order to keep up to date with the latest developments in language pedagogy, Cornelia has completed DLL Premium Basis, an 18-month advanced training course for teachers at the Goethe Institute, and is studying for a part-time Master's degree in German as a Second and Foreign Language at the Philipps University in Marburg.

Cornelia's pronounced intercultural interest is not only reflected in her professional life, but also in her personal life. In addition to living in various cities in Germany, Cornelia has also lived in Andalusia in Cordoba, Spain, and spent 6 months in Ghana in the capital city of Accra. Cornelia grew up bilingual with a French mother and a German father and additionally speaks English (C1 level) and Spanish at a B2 level.