About Alina
Hello!
Alina here!
I am the lead teacher, creator and founder of glot.education and Level-Up Languages. I am here to show you that there is a way to learn languages easier, faster, and in a fun way.
Here are some facts about me and my language experience and expertise:
Know firsthand the skills and tricks to learn a foreign language. I began my first foreign language at age 5!
Have over 30 years of experience teaching languages in schools, and over 12 years teaching virtually.
Trained by many master language teachers and professors since age 15.
Began formal language studies at the university and language schools abroad at age 12!
I have taught over 5500 students to:
Raise their grades/scores
Lower stress
Build confidence
Improve proficiency in the language
A little more detail? Here is my journey in learning languages…
I know firsthand what it takes to learn foreign languages. I started at age 5 when I left Cuba and put in a school in the USA without knowing a word of English. No English classes were offered, my parents could not afford a tutor, and they didn’t speak English either.
So, I flunked First Grade. And…
… I struggled for seven years because no one taught me how to learn the language, until my Sixth-Grade teacher realized I could not read. Wonderful Mrs. Keesee! During her break and my recess she taught me English phonics and finally learned how to read!
Talk about a lightbulb turning on! (Actually, it was like a lighthouse beacon!)- a whole new world opened up to me!! I could finally read and understand English for the first time! I enclosed myself in my bedroom for what seemed an eternity trying to catch up on years of feeling I was in the Dark Ages of Learning!
Meanwhile:
At age 10, I was learning French with a private tutor. Then…
At age 12 (yes, this is NOT a typo!), my dad enrolled me at the university to study French in the summers.
Beginning at age 15 I was:
training with language teachers at workshops
studying French and Spanish at the university (while in high school)
studying foreign languages abroad
began to learn Brazilian Portuguese (I already understood it, so why not?)
Eventually, I majored/studied languages and education (French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese)
Then, there is Japanese and other language stories, but that will be for another time.
Alina
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