Do you want to build your fluency in English? Do you want to speak with confidence? Do you want to finally begin thinking in English?

Hello, I'm Irenē, I'm from California, and I can help you do that.    

About My Classes 

Let's talk about different things to build your fluency: your city, your hobbies, your life stories, your studies or your work.    Do you like to cook? We'll talk about food and make sure you have all the vocabulary you need.    Do you need to talk to your co-workers in English?  Tell me all the office gossip -- I'll teach you the expressions to stay "in the know".   For talking to your boss, I show you some more formal expressions.   Did you immigrate to a new country -- the US, the UK, any other?  Let's talk about your immigrant journey.  

Our goal is for you to practice your recall of English words and phrases in real time.  You will also practice expressing your way "around" an idea when you can't easily remember the English word or phrase,  

During the lesson, I put all these corrections and suggestions into a Quizlet deck of digital flashcards that you can study later, so that all that feedback goes into your long-term memory.  We also review these flashcards at the start of lessons.  

To provide you with additional review material, I offer to record our conversation lessons.  

In all these lessons, translation from your native language is used carefully.   Memorizing translations, or using it too much, can stop your ability to start thinking in English. 

About Me

I have a TEFL certificate from the University of Toronto.  I've taught English online to adults since 2019.  

My great love is history and historical fiction, and I'm an amateur writer.    I love to travel, and in the past year I've spent two months in Buenos Aires and two months in Prague.  I've studied Spanish, and I'm now studying the Russian language.