My Story with languages
I like learning languages. I first started learning English when I was five in school. I was lucky enough to study in a bilingual school (English and Spanish) that valued learning languages just as much as any other subject. In school, I also learnt French. I went on to live in Chicago for a year and spent some months living in France. Later on, I decided to make languages the backbone of my bachelor studies (I studied International Relations and Translation and Interpreting!). While in uni, I started learning Portuguese, a language that I profoundly love. Now, while living in Berlin, I am in the middle of learning German (wish me luck!)
🇪🇸Spanish: Native 🇬🇧English: C2 🇫🇷French: B2 🇵🇹Portuguese: B2 🇩🇪German: A1
Why should we design language-learning
Having been a language-learner for my whole life, I have experienced first hand different types of teaching methodologies and I have always been very observant of how people, especially adults, behave and face learning languages. More often than not, language classes for adults become painfully boring for participants because of the lack of experiential and playful elements in the methodology (if there is even one). Individualism, endless repeating, memorizing and a blind faith on textbooks are frequent methodologies that I believe to be obsolete for a language learning experience.
Therefore, I put a lot of thought into making the language learning experience in adults as fun, engaging and effective as possible and I am always excited to work with teachers to push forward a more interactive way of learning.
Learning numbers in German🇩🇪
In the early stages of learning a language, numbers are often one of the most complicated and daunting lessons for participants. While it is a basic and necessary concept to learn it is also complicated, as the logics in numbering vary from language to language. The process of learning the numbers can feel very confusing and slow, making participants feel uncomfortable with their speed in learning such an apparently simple concept and, therefore, build fear and apathy towards numbers that only makes the challenge harder.
In the context of learning numbers in German and defying the individualistic, repetitive and text-book approach I propose three different methods to make learning fun, collaborative and more experiential.
Con material y espacio
Sólo con material
Sin material