After finishing my bachelor's degree I decided to travel around the world for a while to experience different cultures and languages. In Vietnam I finally settled for a while to build some teaching experience, which I now would like to use to teach my native language, German. I am heavily interested in linguistics (my Bachelor thesis dealt with the linguistic relativity hypothesis) and languages in general. Over the years I tried learning Spanisch, Latin, Norwegian, Japanese, Russian, Italian and Vietnamese (with varying success) so I know exactly which kind of problems are awaiting new learners of a language.

Bachelor of Education

Offline teaching experience: 1

Online teaching experience: 0

Hello, my name is Tom. I am 27 years old and have been teaching English in Vietnam for over a year. Before working abroad I studied German and Philosophy in a teacher's program and graduated with a Bachelor of Education. Additionally, I obtained a 120h-TEFL certificate for teaching Englisch. I taught in public schools in Germany and Vietnam, aswell as in language centers and tutoring schools. Furthermore I used to work at the University of Paderborn in the department for didactics of Philosophy, so I am familiar with a variety of educational approaches aswell as structures of different languages. Online teaching is new to me, but I see it as yet another challenge to improve my teaching skills and pass my knowledge of the languages I either spent a lot time learning or acquired by birth. :)