by Constance Akuh | Sep 15, 2026 | English
You know this moment. Someone asks you something in English, and in your head a whole factory starts working. First you build the sentence in German. Then you translate it word by word. Then you check the grammar. And by the time you’re ready… the...
by Constance Akuh | Aug 12, 2026 | English
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...
by Constance Akuh | Jul 18, 2026 | English
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...
by Constance Akuh | Jun 28, 2026 | English
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...
by Constance Akuh | May 20, 2026 | English
Holiday season is coming, and I hear the same worry every year: “My English isn’t good enough to travel.” Let me tell you a secret: the English you need on holiday is not the English from your school books. It’s survival English — and...