Native Teacher

When we moved to Nyíregyháza, I was desperate to find a native speaker to book her for a couple of ours on a weekly basis. Well it wasn't that easy... it took me 3 months to find one and book her and eventually she put us on a waiting list for another three weeks... but now it works smoothly and we also managed to find other mums interested so we can share the cost of the fee and also our children are in company. 

She is very British and speaks the Queen's English and very good with children. 

The little one likes her and accepted her from day one. We started to have a 45 Minute 'lesson' a week and now from next week on we are going to have two lessons per week. 

Her background

They moved to Hungary some 10 years ago, her and her husband and their daughter. (She keeps saying the reason why R. has no brothers or sisters is that one English girl in a family is more than enough.) They are very nice people, her husband M. has a sort of British Club in Amnesia Cafe in the downtown, it is free of charge and only a group of people is aware of the existence of it so it is quite good to have, though I am reluctant now to get there, well I am too lazy I guess. They live in a so called 'bokor tanya' near the new LEGO building site. They are a real phenomenon in Nyíregyháza, many people know them by sight, because they have an old rusty car with a great big ad on the top saying English Language Coaching and also K. has a strange bag with built in lights white in the front and red at the back.  They are a bit strange well very British.

She is very calm and gentle with children, sharp and always dead on time, she sticks to her timetable but she is flexible too. Their favourite character is Wallace and Gromit probably they try to hold on the their roots throught these two characters. 

Her teaching method:

She applies her own method, loads of repetition (which might seem to be a bit boring through the eyes of the parent, but it is not boring for a less than two year old). She's got her own teaching aids, like laminated sheets with magnets and stuff like that, those hand-made things fascinate me so much. She even has a home published book (well a series of books) the first part of which is the story of Sid, a little snake who goes to the park and sees different animals (butterfly, bird, bee, dragon fly) and the playground a swing, a slide, a little pond and so on. The book introduces some of the mispronounced sounds of the English language for example 'th'

She says:

Sid says thhhhhhhhhh (sticking out of her tongue and exaggerating this sound) little one has hysterics when he hears it (well especially when it was first introduced, now he knows the whole story by heart) I think it is about time to step forward and start volume 2. 

K. with the little group

 Larry Lama says 't' and Mo Monkey say 'w' and children found it very funny. During the summer our little one went through such a miraculous phase as far as his language development is concerned. He started with words and now he can sing songs and say more complex language elements and it is so encouraging for us (meaning mummy and daddy).

I am so grateful for the time she spends with us and looking forward to seeing how the winter timetable with the two small groups works out.