💬 Teacher Comment
✅ Your grammar is quite strong and, as we noted, understandable despite a handful of 'Denglish' (deutsches english) elements.
🎯 Improve: As we chat more and more, I'll keep an eye on word order, which you tend to transpose directly from German. For example, during our chat we self-corrected from 'how looks your availability' to 'how do...
✅ Your pronunciation is near flawless and I honestly don't know what to put as an 'area for improvement'.
🎯 Improve: I'm going to intentionally bring up difficult to pronounce concepts to see if I can catch you.
✅ Your perception of 'professional English learning' is informed by decades of language teaching that followed flawed methods. It is actually way more functional and efficient to learn languages through...
🎯 Improve: I think this perception has also impacted your views of your own language level. You are at least a professionally proficient English speaker and I think something we need to work on is the more subtl...
✅ You talked about how you 'didn't learn English very professionally' which I think has actually served you well. When learners focus on learning through listening and communication, they tend to passiv...
🎯 Improve: There were a handful of instances where you confused prepositions. For example, rather than we reacting 'on mistakes' we react 'to mistakes'. This might confuse people who have never been exposed to G...
✅ It was lovely talking about our mutual love for Piano and I am glad I was able to share the word 'fugue state' (a state where you sort of lose yourself in an activity'.
🎯 Improve: If we choose topics for conversational classes, I think we should use a 'random wiki' generator so that we are introduced to a topic neither of us knows very well. This way we can broaden your vocabul...