Open Group German Courses

Valerie lives and breathes languages. In addition to being a qualified bilingual German and French language trainer, Valerie is proficient in written and spoken Spanish, Italian, and English, and she understands Portuguese. In between teaching online and face-to-face language courses full-time, Valerie further uses her language skills to complete translation work or coordinate German-language projects in her current home city of Córdoba, Argentina.

She has been teaching language classes for over 12 years, and has lived and worked in countries all around the world: Valerie was born in Germany, has French nationality, studied in Spain, and lives and works in Argentina. So, with Valerie, learners get more than a qualified native speaker with a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, an academic certificate to teach German and Italian, and various other language-related credentials. Students also get a well-traveled teacher who knows the most crucial elements of German culture to know to acquire the language faster, as well as an expert tutor skilled at teaching multinational groups, capable of adapting her style and approach to suit the learning preferences of each individual.

Valerie is highly proficient in teaching languages to groups of all levels (including complete beginners), assessing students’ progress and adapting course content on the fly, and creating activities and using online materials to facilitate learning. She can even teach highly specialist language classes, when they are relevant or interesting to her students, such as German idioms and medical terminology.

Formerly an electrician, Jurgen made the switch to teaching his native language in 2014. Like his previous career, Jurgen enjoys tutoring because of the people he meets as a result, and he has taught German to school students, professionals, and private individuals and groups via face-to-face and online programs. In fact, he even has a professional certification in IT, which he uses to great effect in his online Language Trainers Connect courses: utilizing software to cultivate a productive virtual learning space; sharing digital resources to make studying more enjoyable and interactive; and stimulating interesting discussions and cultural exchanges among his students, while they put their German speaking and listening skills into practice.

Jurgen is highly proficient at teaching all levels of German to all ages and abilities, including people with learning handicaps, and is experienced delivering a set syllabus to his groups of students during the allocated timeframe. But he also loves to bring something of himself to each lesson, and delights in learning about other people’s native languages, home nations, and cultures as much as he loves sharing interesting information about the German language, Germany, and his own interests, including travel and literature. So, in Jurgen’s course, you will not only be encouraged to share your hobbies and interests, learning how to talk and write about them in German in the process, but also you will get to know what interests your classmates as well, which will simultaneously help you bond with one another and learn even more German words and phrases.