Language coaching/Conversations in various languages/German, English, Russian, Dutch

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From 106 C$ /h

# Conversations in German, Russian, English or Dutch

Conversations are the perfect way to improve your language skills naturally.
I offer friendly conversations in German, Russian, English or Dutch, on a wide variety of topics.
We can talk about science, art or even the meaning of life.

People sometimes pay thousands of euros to learn a language.
It's easy to be intimidated by a language's complex grammar and easy to give up.
Usually this is because there is not enough actual conversation training.
I offer conversations in the above languages on every conceivable subject.

## What do I offer

- Online conversations on any topic in German, Russian, Dutch or English.
- Connections between languages, to intuitively understand, and of course remember even complex concepts.
- Intuitive explanation of phraseology.
- Practical grammar exercises.
- Flexible timing (16/7) and planning for worldwide (online) audience.
- If you suddenly have a question, you can always contact me.

Flexible payment options: Payment in any way, per session or in advance.

## I do not do

- I don't learn grammar in the formal way.
- I don't use any particular method or book.

It is useful if you already have a small basic knowledge of a language.
My services are explicitly intended to build fluency.

## About me

My name is Martin and I come from a professional music background (masters degree in classical piano).
I have many different interests ranging from philosophy, literature, music and art, over languages and philosophy to science and IT.
Of course I also have a lot of experience in languages and I also have supporting certifications.
I am always learning and want to help people do the same.

At the moment I am also learning languages myself: Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian.

Extra information

Small basic language skills, internet connection, laptop + microphone

Location

Online from Netherlands

About Me

I am a professional classical pianist, music teacher and educator. I am an experienced piano, theory teacher and music performer. Besides music I have a lot of interests, especially in the fields of Technology, Philosophy and Languages.

Education

Cum laude Master of Music Diploma from the Netherlands. Various international courses, competitions and master classes.
Before that completed Bachelor of Music as well as High School with highest grades.

Experience / Qualifications

Qualified Classical Pianist and Music theory teacher. Experienced piano teacher at music schools in the Netherlands as well as experienced in performance practice. Qualified in various languages, including Dutch, German, Russian and English.

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

45 minutes

The class is taught in

Dutch

German

English

Russian

Skills

German

German for adults

Language arts

Russian

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -04:00)

New York

Online via webcam

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

00-04

04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

Online music theory lesson for all ages in levels (Beginners, Academic)

116 C$ /h

Online music theory lesson for all ages in levels.
I give lessons in Dutch, German, English or Russian.

Knowledge of classical music theory and music history is valuable in many ways:
Not only does it give a new view of the classical music world, but it also gives concrete skills, such as hearing and recognizing chords, singing complex melodies cleanly, recognizing structure in a piece of music and knowledge of background information and history of a musical work or composer. .

I teach all these elements in an interesting, well-structured and accessible whole.
In this context, I also prepare high-level students, for example for admission to a conservatory.

I adapt my lessons to all levels in ages, from beginners to academics.
I learn basic music theory skills, for example for admission to a conservatory, but also academically complex music theory at a high level.

My classes include:

- Solfège/Vocals (melody, rhythm)
- Ear training (dictations, recognition of complex chords)
- Harmony (basic, complex harmonic series)
- Analysis of music pieces
- Music history

I approach all these elements from the classical music tradition.

## About me

My name is Martin, I have bachelor and master of music degree in classical music, piano.
I have a lot of experience in giving both piano lessons and music theory lessons to students of all ages.

Online Piano Lessons for all ages, levels and backgrounds

80 C$ /h

Discovering the world of music opens up many possibilities, insights and experiences.
Welcome, my name is Martin. I am a classical pianist and an experienced music teacher. I teach to play the piano and all about music theory.
The speciality of my piano practice is that I teach to students of all ages, levels and backgrounds. My youngest student currently is 4 years old, and my oldest is 88 years old.
Furthermore, my lessons are suitable for beginners as well as advanced students. My lessons are both possible as individual lessons as well as group lessons.

In the field of Piano Playing I teach:

Classical Piano Playing
Basics of Jazz Harmony and improvisation

In my music practice I work with official entrance qualifications and curriculums in mind. For example, if the goal is to prepare for a conservatory entrance exam I support the entire journey towards it in my practice, to guarantee best results.
A professional approach is always guaranteed. The exact details of the chosen learning path depend on the goal of the students. This gets discussed at the beginning of our lessons. There is always flexibility in support, should a student suddenly need assistance with something, even when not during lesson time.

An advantage of my practice is that I teach in a wide variety of languages. Currently I teach in:

English
Russian
German
Dutch
Italian

When I started my piano practice, many people were sceptical of the idea of online lessons, which is very understandable. However I discovered how to make even online lessons work effectively:

The secret lies in the ability to break down very complex topics, for example piano technique (E.G. hand position, use of fingers), into little parts that are easily understood and communicated. Because I communicate complicated topics very clearly, this works also very well online.

Next to the flexibility in time and planning that online lessons offer, I am also always very open for ideas of students: If the student has own interests or ideas, I will gladly adapt to that. Else I have a lot of experience choosing interesting and engaging music pieces and topics.

I have have a lot of experience in piano playing. In my life I have done a lot of professional piano competitions and international music festivals with famous figures in the music world. Besides that I come from a background of the famous Russian School of Piano, which focuses a lot on musicality and personality.

Over the years I have developed my own piano technique with the focus on relaxation. This makes virtuosity possible.

The philosophy of my lessons is to work primarily on the individuality of the personality of the performer, and to work with interesting and engaging musical pieces on artistic, musical and technical traits. The music always comes first!

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I offer you a new learning experience.

The focus is on practical application and theory is only introduced where intuition reaches its limits.

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner, my tailor-made lessons will accelerate your language acquisition in a positive learning environment.

You can book a complete course with regular sessions or individual lessons to overcome a specific problem, such as pronunciation or a particular point in grammar.

Learning a foreign language is not a linear process that consists of memorising a list of words, and speaking a foreign language is not an oral translation exercise.

There are two types of approaches to acquiring knowledge:

When asked what year follows 1999, you can immediately answer 2000 without having to think for a long time and, above all, without having memorised each number individually, starting with 1, 2, 3 ... You know that numbers are formed according to a certain pattern. With only ten digits, you can form an infinite number of numbers and always know which number comes next.

When it comes to the alphabet, words and sentences, it's more or less the same, but school pedagogy, school textbooks and regular lessons still follow the rote learning approach. In the lessons I propose, you will learn to use patterns because this is more efficient and faster.

Learning is easy, but unlearning bad habits is extremely difficult. This makes it all the more important to learn the right reflexes as early as possible.

My offer is aimed at both young people and adults who want to learn German or improve their knowledge without wasting time on nonsensical school methods.

I offer individual or group lessons for German. The methods are based on cognitive science and, in particular, comparative linguistics. My flexible programme can be tailored to your individual needs. The programme focuses on your independence in spontaneous conversations in real life.

What is particularly important to me:

motivating my students and help them establish a learning rhythm;
encouraging their creativity;
helping them become more familiar with the language;
teaching them the letters and their sounds;
strengthening their memory by training their phonological loop;
teaching sentence building plans instead of memorising sentences;
explaining how language works so that my students can become independent as quickly as possible.

I look forward to meeting you.

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Fully certified TEFL/TESOL

*All classes are one-on-one and tailored to the individual student's needs and requirements. The ultimate goal is that the student thinks in the language not just translates.
*All key aspects of the language will be addressed including cultural aspects/linguistic differences.
* Whether a quick learner or not; it will be fun and comprehensible. There is a goal to achieve and it will be done.
* Whether learning a language to improve your career, for travel or even romantic reasons, help is at hand - just reach out.

Some Reviews:
Chevaan:
Catherina is without a doubt THE best tutor we know. She is exceptionally committed and is always looking to inspire her students. She has consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty to help our son with his German. She provides excellent study material, engaging homework and follows up to ensure that her students have really grasped the subject matter.

Brian:
Catharina has been teaching our 11 year old daughter for the past few months and we are very impressed with her excellent progress in this short space of time.
Catharina has developed a very good rapport with our daughter and is patient and knowledgeable. Our daughter always looks forward to her next lesson and even hands in her homework on time! We would highly recommend Catharina to anyone who would like to learn a new language.

Afeisha:
Very professional, friendly and informative. I feel like Catharina will help me to reach where I need to. She doesn't just teach from the book, she teaches in a way that will allow you to blend in with ease. I am excited to learn more from her.

Egle:
Great tutor! Catharina adapts lessons to ones needs, gives very clear explanations and most importantly works on the pronunciation of the language. With every lesson she provides lesson material.

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Expert Goethe-Certified German Tutor: A1-B1 Online Classes Worldwide

Goethe-certified with proven success teaching beginners—professionals, students, adults, and kids globally—I provide flexible online German courses for A1, A2, and B1. Drawing from standard digital textbooks for adults and children, my sessions sharpen your listening, reading, writing, and speaking, fully adapted to your needs.

Aim for Goethe or TELC certification, or Germany studies? My targeted coaching ensures you excel. We build a relaxed, idea-sharing environment that sparks real progress.

Your Learning Package Includes:

Initial proficiency checks

Tailored lessons matching your preferences

Premium exclusive resources

Lively, dialogue-focused practice

Full lesson summaries

Precise feedback on assignments

Steady between-lesson guidance

Dedicated 1:1 mentoring

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Improve your skills during oral interventions in public, better manage your personal/professional communication, the associated emotions & the resulting conflicts, master negotiation techniques (...): your objectives in terms of communication can be diverse and the objective of these sessions is precisely to support you in better achieving them. So, how can we send a clear message, be impactful, create a difference and make an impact?

➤ Whether your objective is personal or professional, speaking is a predominantly physical activity, relying on a body, a voice, a breath, a rhythm (diction), an emotion and above all techniques, tools, a method, a know-how, reflecting the speaker's involvement in his speech.

➤ On the telephone, in a meeting, in front of a client, his family (...), relevant and successful speaking must always be effective and efficient, with clear, simple and impactful messages, creating a balance between the message received and message sent. Coherence between form and content.

➤ So, how to listen and be listened to, convince and be impactful, challenge and make an impression, enhance your content, address your audience effectively and optimize the quality & clarity of the exchange / message? It is precisely a question of going through, applying and deploying practical and effective techniques of oral presentation, of simple intervention or of 'one to one` exchange, aiming to challenge your audience or interlocutor, by taking care of the substance as well as the form. , all in a professional or personal context. For this, there are verbal and non-verbal communication techniques.

➤ Thus, mastered, the practical method allows, through a set of simulations and scenarios based on your daily experience supporting pragmatic & concrete techniques, to improve self-confidence, self-assurance, ease by overcoming discomfort and controlling his emotion in public. But also to work on your leadership & charisma, in a context where empathy and emotional intelligence are at the service of communication.

➤ So, in this context, after having precisely defined your objective & gone through the blockages encountered, here are some examples of themes covered through concrete techniques & a targeted methodology:
✓Practical tools to perfect your rhetoric/repartee
✓Decode and use the practical communication tools of great leaders
✓Fundamentals (practices) of eloquence but also of public speaking (intonation, gaze, gestures, elocution, range, emotions, pronunciation, development of one's own style of charisma) to ensure consistency between substance & form
✓Fundamentals of Body Language to support and not interfere with the speech while being convinced & convincing.
✓ Highlighting their speech & promoting their speaking to arouse interest, by building on their strengths.
✓Creation of a coherence between the message emitted & the message received in order to improve its speech and in fact, its professional/personal relations.
✓Management of Q&A sessions & external reactions during an intervention or an oral exchange.
✓Practical tools to put your interlocutor at ease and appear friendly/interested.
✓To succeed in a negotiation/mediation.
✓On the one hand, learning to say 'no' simply in three steps AND on the other hand, getting people to say 'yes'.
✓To turn sentences into positive AND constructive.
✓To manage conflicts (eg 'assertive' communication techniques, eg CNV techniques - Non Violent Communication).
✓To put NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) at the service of communication.
✓To adopt effective, simple, fair and engaging language.
✓To use sentences, turns of phrase & expressions allowing to be precise, simple, effective & challenging.
✓To manage your personal & professional relationships with, for example, the preparation of your ratings.
✓Make your hypersensitivity a strength to tame your abilities.
✓Listening proactively and expressing / conveying ideas / message clearly.
✓ Avoid letting your emotions show through and propose a constructive solution to problems, while drawing on your own relational skills.
✓Be better equipped to recognize and immediately remedy situations that weaken their authority and affect their ability to communicate effectively.
✓Enhance their potential for expression and creativity (often underestimated until now) and 'apparent' sociability
✓Develop not necessarily self-confidence, but the 'appearance' of self-confidence, refine one's listening to respond adequately, open up to the resources of the imagination, free oneself from the rational to then structure one's speech.
✓Relate their communication objectives (project, institution, values, ideas, demands, etc.) to the form of their expression.
✓Learn and put into practice persuasive communication techniques and better understand the perception that others have of oneself. In order to improve his skills of 'self-presentation' and conveyed image.
✓Practical techniques to foster the engagement of the other party.
✓Strengthen the structure of its communication and develop a convincing argument in order to sell its ideas and projects.
(...)

➤ To master the keys to successful public communication, it is necessary to strengthen the impact of your speeches: by structuring your interventions and taking into account the circumstances and the expectations of the public; by making an impact through storytelling; integrating the psychological and emotional factors of effective oral communication; by integrating emotions into the preparation of the message and arguments; anticipating objections and delicate situations; by preparing and structuring an attractive and convincing presentation framework; by experimenting with the rules of improvisation; by adequately managing difficult situations (...).

➤ In short, each session combines techniques & practical exercises adapted to your daily situations (filmed with your agreement in order to be reviewed, commented on, decoded together live), so that you can apply them immediately, and from the 1st session.

THE TRAINER
➤ With training from Grande Ecole post-preparatory classes & Ivy League university in the United States, our teacher trainer has specialized and has worked for more than 15 years in the field, in Europe and North America, in renowned international public and private establishments, regularly speaking in forums and conferences, and also offering personalized INDIVIDUAL support, with pedagogy and careful methodology as the watchwords.

➤ PLACE, TIMETABLE, PRICES
✓ Locations: Geneva-Lausanne-Fribourg-Zurich-Neuchâtel-Lugano-Basel-Neuchâtel-Berne-Lucerne-Brussels-Luxembourg-Paris-Lyon. But currently, these sessions continue to be offered by videoconference in the current context and in accordance with general demand which is almost unanimous on this subject.

✓ Indeed, apart from the classic advantages of videoconferencing (time saving related to travel & their unforeseen events, eco-responsibility, increased schedule flexibility, etc.), the quality of the session & the interaction remain identical. In addition, the entire exchange, notes and recommendations are immediately transcribed on the dedicated chat.

✓ To support us among ourselves & to be pleasant to you in this sustainable / particular period and in a spirit of solidarity, the fees are temporarily reduced and will not increase after the start of our sessions.

✓ Languages: French/English.

✓ The progress following these private sessions is perceptible from 1 to 2 sessions (*2024 study).

✓ As other people do regularly, you can also please your loved ones by offering gift vouchers available all year round.

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Take a look at some of my reviews (not all of them are here) and let them paint the picture for you.

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Course for beginners from A1 to be
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Each level includes four books and story, which helps to express the ideas easily and fast.

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Depending on your level and goals, we can work on:

• Everyday Serbian and useful expressions
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