No panic, you can learn German!
A passionate teacher with experience, empathy and humour.
Facts about your teacher — That’s me — Silke Urban
- As a TELC-certified phonetics expert, I will teach you the right pronunciation using easy, stress-free methods.
- Many years of professional experience in intercultural exchange, am a trained linguist (university diploma – corresponding a Master’s degree — as an interpreter and translator for French and Portuguese, 1986 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- With my foreign language skills in French, Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and Russian I will also help you to compare languages. This way you will learn much faster because it relates to your own languages.
- As a teacher I actively train my teaching skills in the didactics (the “what?”) and methodology (the “how?”). Even as a teacher, one never stops learning.
I am a
- Hobby chef with an interest in international cuisine
- Balcony gardener with a green thumb
- Culture fan — especially exhibitions, museums and cinema
- Literature lover — especially science fiction, crime and contemporary novels
- Politically interested person — I follow daily politics and world events and am curious about other points of view
- Photographing traveller — curious about encounters with people and culinary discoveries on the spot
Since 2006 certified teacher for German as a foreign language and owner of einfach Deutsch!
What can you expect? Edutainment, in English, expresses it best. Just learn German! and we’ll take the proof together! Your individual learning programme will be customised based on your previous knowledge, interests and learning goals. I will create classes according to your needs and wishes. Learning should be fun!
You fix your lesson, days and time and we will mark it on the calendar.