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- ESOL
- English Vocabulary
- English reading
- English listening
- Accent Reduction-English
I have been teaching primarily Chinese professionals for two years with great success. Having been conversation to fluent in three additional languages.
- ESOL
- English Vocabulary
- English reading
- English listening
- Accent Reduction-English
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About Barry
About myself:
I graduated with a B.A. in History from University of Minnesota. I also attended Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Additionally, I attended public and private high schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With an interest in international travel and culture, I went to school and traveled in Europe and Latin America.
I have enjoyed friendships and adoptive family relationship with people who have lived and worked on literally every continent, from impoverished farmers in Africa to members and friends of Scandinavian and African royal families, and billionaires in North and South America.
I love living, and two of my greatest pastimes are reading, reviewing Facebook, and writing letters and essays. I also love light to "heady" conversations.
I have spoken before groups of 250 to 400, as well as having been interviewed about mental health and autism on a radio program which streams internationally -- and received the most positive responses the radio station ever had for one hour of programming to any type of audience.
I have been involved in the international community as both a friend, student and professional since age 5-years. With my experience using a life coach and mental health professional to work on anxiety and various interesting elements of personal development, I have learned from professionals with decades in practice on how to lead a conversation and take an interest in other people.
I greatly enjoy my work -- and getting to know of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats which my students and friends bring to me.
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- Adult Education
- Advanced
- Intermediate
levels :
Adult Education
Advanced
Intermediate
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Again, I work with Asian students, typically from China and Japan.
All of my current and past formal and informal students over the past thirty-three years have told me that my way of working with them makes them feel very comfortable. Medical professionals who have started their professional careers over again in the U.S., after having moved from China and Japan, have shared with me their sense that without my guidance and friendship, they wouldn't have felt so comfortable in their clinical skills exams.
A student of mine from Shenzhen, China, who studied in Canada and returned to China to work as a computer-scientist and electrical engineer on the development of a robotic electrical vehicle refueling design recently told me that I am an excellent teacher, and that he is happy to be working with me. We meet every Saturday evening by telephone (I live in Minneapolis, and it is Sunday morning in Shenzhen when he contacts me.
A typical class with me involves talking about what has happened in your life since the last time we spoke. It involves reading text aloud to work on pronunciation of words which your need to know well on a professional level, as well as reading and recitation of text which you enjoy out of very personal interest and desire to learn and enhance your personal and private lifestyle. It involves talking about any projects at work which you are at liberty to discuss.
We talk about friends, family, and colleague activities. We talk about travel, joys and difficulties at work and at home, and current events, history and cultures which interest you.
One of the things some of my students have shared with me is their difficulty understanding other foreign English Speakers who are neither from their language group or who are not native English speakers. I can help brainstorm ways to move beyond discomfort such as this.
As I have learned other languages in regions which were foreign to me, I know what it is like to be a student and professional trying to master something new. My aim is to lead you to a point of comfort and proficiency which will allow you to be proud of working toward language comfort and proficiency as a major achievement in your life.
I am not the kind of teacher you may have grown up with in Asia where being demanding and perfectionist in a formal manner is part of my way with you. This is something which a few students have brought to me -- and have even used as a reason for stopping our lessons due to not feeling pressure while learning.
As I don't learn well in high pressure environments, I don't put high pressure environments, other than striving to be excellent, on my students. I don't know how prevalent is that sort of instructor in your personal academic history, or if it was the individual student who decided to part ways as a result of "not being corrected enough."
I take an interest in you, and we slowly get to know one another on a friendly basis. My focus is on helping you talk about what interests you and helping you with your pronunciation and asking you about how well you are doing with your family and colleagues -- and what are their backgrounds and interests. In all of my teaching of adults, I have come to know about the lifestyles of their spouses, children, parents and siblings and colleagues to the degree that my students have felt comfortable talking about these important people.
I do not work well with teenagers or young adults, or adults who have major difficulties with their emotions and demanding personalities. However, I have worked well with professionals who have brought to me concerns about their marital lives, demands as a parent, and some issues with colleagues -- both issues involving profound respect as well as with difficult people.
This said, I am not primarily a psychotherapist or trained marriage and family therapist. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, and have researched in public health, business and finance; and I have enjoyed friendship with classmates of mine who have been engineers and business owners or from small to multi-billion dollar domestic and international businesses owned and operated by their family members and employees. I take an interest in you and work with your ideas and your professional and academic needs, and with typical developmental needs. I do not mind you being personal with me.
Having grown up in a challenging family and among classmates who have tried my patience and interfered with my own progress in school and professional life, I have used a professional life coach, and I feel comfortable doing what I can to assist you learn how to communicate not only about your daily professional needs, but also your very personal and private needs.
I believe that with learning how to be honest about private and personal matters, and learning how to speak about them in a comfortable environment, our ease in living, and our creativity and productivity, can be enhanced.
Due to the way many people have presented themselves to me throughout school, I see a personal coach of my own. This has been exceptionally helpful, and the skills that I have learned in both recognizing my ability to set limits with others, as well as how to work with difficult people, has been incredible!
My students typically have at least a college degree and one or more graduate degrees, and who have families -- either living with them or away from them while they are involved with medical residencies or while they are on extended business trips. All of my students have had concerns about being shy about speaking English to a native speaker.
I take on the role of friend and family member so that you needn't torture yourself with anxiety with not feeling good enough to work on the tasks at hand. Through time, this shyness or discomfort passes. Some students do not have these concerns.
In a nutshell:
1. We will work with conversational topic of interest to you.
2. We may work with reading material for you us use to improve
your recitation and presentation of written work; we talk about your daily life and what interests you the most.
3. I come to your aid as a member of your family or as a friend in whom you may confide and trust, and you needn't feel pressure to be perfect; our work together is leading you closer to that elusive endpoint called "perfection" -- which no one, not even native speakers, can attain.
4. I look at all options for resources on how to improve and cope with daily life challenges.
5. Most of my students continue working with me for years as a "paid friend" and advisor; some do not, and that's o.k.
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- 92AED
Pack prices
- 5h: 437AED
- 10h: 768AED
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Details
A $5 fee, on top of the $25 hourly rate for classes schedule by the single hour, will be assessed for processing the payments, if done by PayPal.com I do not use other forms of payment, though this is open to discussion. At this time, no other method of individual payment will be used. PayPal is a safe, immediate, and secure payment platform. If you are not currently using it, setting up take less than ten-minutes.
Once your payment has been made, our cancellation policy goes into effect: 50% of your fee will be returned of the initial payment.
Processing fees for multi-hour lesson packs are waived.
Lesson pack hours must be used within the calendar month, otherwise subjected to a 50% penalty for early withdrawal.
All payments must be made in advance of the first free lesson, which is not counted as part of a multi-hour lesson pack. There are no exceptions to this rule.
I look forward to meeting up with you and chatting with you in our first meeting. I hope to offer you a fine experience which you will not forget!
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