Whatever I was doing, whatever project I was involved in, whatever country I lived in — I always kept teaching English alongside it, ever since I was a student at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Pedagogical University. That makes more than 20 years of teaching.
My students have been three-year-olds and retired adults, teenagers and businessmen, doctors and politicians. Everyone's goals are their own, the tasks differ, and each student needs a different approach — there is no single recipe. Every new student is a challenge to myself: will I be able to inspire this particular person, to pass on my love for English, to find the words that work for them.
I love foreign languages, and teaching English is my way of sharing a piece of that love. As a rule, an honest wish to help finds a response, and very often we end up friends. However old my student is, we are on first-name terms: I am simply a person who wants to help.
When should a child start
I am often asked at what age a child should start English, or any other foreign language. My answer is: from three, without hesitation. With a small child the goal is at least to build a warm, positive relationship with the language, to feel its melody and rhythm. So lessons with the little ones are songs, games and more songs, then letters and the little secrets of how letters change.
When my youngest students do not want to leave at the end of an hour and ask for more — that is real joy, and the feeling that the method is right.
Thank you, my dear students: with each of you I discover the picture of the world that a language draws, again and again.
