O nás

I have been teaching English for Edifiers since September 2017. I studied Translation and Interpreting of the English language and Literature and the Slovak language and Literature at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. After graduating I realized that by teaching English I could spread the knowledge I learned as well as learn something new myself. At Edifiers I teach mainly Business English, which helps me grow professionally. Furthermore, I believe that the acquired skills are useful and necessary to communicate with people in the business environment.

I think I am quite talkative, friendly and open-minded. Foreign languages have always been a hobby of mine, along with hiking, reading and chatting with friends over good coffee, of course. I think that learning languages is a great way of learning something new as well as meeting new people, getting to know new cultures and overcoming personal and cultural barriers. That’s why I love teaching English.

At the age of eight I had only 2 goals in my life: kick a football as high as I possibly can (preferably so it lands on the roof of a house), and to achieve proficiency in English in order to travel the world. And as I was impatient about it (both of those things actually), I worked hard from an early age to reach the latter goal as soon as possible. On the way, I discovered how much fun it is to communicate in a foreign language and how it easy it is once you start to enjoy it.

I was born and raised in Poland, the cold but beautiful seaside. As mentioned above, I had a clear plan of my life. I consider myself lucky because my father understood very early on how important languages are, and he encouraged my sister and me to work hard and always push ourselves in our studies. Because of that, I was able to study in London, UK, and travel just as I had planned. I lived in various European countries, usually for at least a year if not more, and used my knowledge of the English language to teach others. I worked a lot with young learners and teenagers, who to this day I find fascinating to teach as their perspective on life and things are so different from adults’. I completed my CELTA course in Brest, France where I started teaching adults…and discovered that some adults’ perspective on life is actually also different and interesting.

My adventure of teaching continues, currently in Bratislava, which already feels like home. My current goal is to become the best teacher that I possibly can because I want to help others and share my knowledge and experience of English. I believe that somehow I got it for free so why not share it with people?

I was born in Košice and lived there for the first 27 years of my life excluding the 15-month period in 1996-97 when I lived in the UK. It was there that I succesfully passed the Cambridge exam and acquired a Certificate of Proficiency in English.

In 2000, I majored in English and History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov. I have been teaching continuously ever since which has given me over 18 years of experience with all kinds of students imaginable – both public courses and corporate clients of various industries and services – banking, insurance, nuclear energy, healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry, IT, supermarket chains, vendors and makers of various products, car mechanics etc.

I teach because it combines two of my greatest hobbies – English and getting to know new people. Apart from these I also love music and good stories in any form, be it a movie, a TV series, a book, comics or just the good old face-to-face storytelling. Thanks to my natural curiosity about all aspects of life I am glad to explore almost any topic my students are interested in.

I am Kinga Gyökeresová , I was born in Bratislava but spent quite a few years living and working abroad, both in Britain and China.

I graduated as a music teacher but also acquired an English as a Foreign Language diploma. In London I worked for a summer school with my CELTA qualification teaching mainly children. The school is one of the prominent language schools in Britain where a special teaching method is used to teach students from about 40 different countries. I truly enjoyed teaching in a creative, international setting, so I spent a decade there. The most rewarding feeling was to see my students improve their English, become more confident with fun activities and interesting projects. I also worked in China for two years, in primary schools in Slovakia and my latest project was teaching Syrian refugee children based in Lebanon online.

I believe students remember the most from a lesson if they have enjoyed it and this is what I am trying to achieve while teaching.

When I am not teaching, I like to spend my time on creative projects (writing , photography) and a lot of traveling (I am a qualified tour guide). Another “hobby” of mine is learning. It can be about a new destination, new recipes or a new skill.