Your Child’s English Starts With Your Words

Your Child’s English Starts With Your Words

School is starting again, and I want to tell you something I have learned in 25 years of teaching: children don’t just learn English from books and lessons. They learn it from the atmosphere around them. And you, as a parent, are the biggest part of that...
Perfection Is the Reason You Freeze

Perfection Is the Reason You Freeze

Let me tell you the sentence I hear most often: “Conny, I understand everything, but when I have to speak, I freeze.” And let me tell you what I’ve learned after 25 years: you don’t freeze because your English is bad. You freeze because you...
What Our Holiday Bootcamp Taught Me

What Our Holiday Bootcamp Taught Me

This June, something wonderful happened: our Holiday English Conversation Bootcamp. A group of German speakers came together for three weeks with one goal — not perfection, but real conversation. And I want to share what I learned from them, because it confirmed...