tahn

I am a very upbeat and cheerful person with lots of smiles. I am patient, attentive, empathetic, and flexible, with active listening skills. In addition, due to my extensive Asian travels, I have general cultural awareness, with cross-cultural empathy & behavioural flexibility skills.

I've tutored undergraduate students for four years. And I've tutored English to middle schoolers.

Some of my strengths include the following:
– Analytical, creative thinking and problem solving
– Excellent written and communication skills
– Excellent Inter-personal skills
– Patience
– Open-mindedness, flexibility.

I would describe myself as a language obsessive, spending a good portion of each of my days learning and reading in foreign languages, with my current ambition being to speak over ten conversationally by the time I reach thirty. I recently graduated with First Class Honours in a BA French and Philosophy degree at UCL, in which I excelled in particular in my French literature modules despite coming from a monolingual household. Furthermore, for the past two years I have been learning Hindi, as prior to Covid-19 it had been my desire to move out there, and I also speak fluent Spanish from my time teaching English in Chile. If offered the post with you in South Korea, not only could I bring my knowledge of French and Spanish to help organise optional classes for the students, but I'd be keen to learn the Korean language from them as well.

My time teaching English in Chile revealed a lot to me about the things that are most useful when trying to teach a class a new language. Most of my students had little hope of leaving the small town of Coihaique where we were situated, and so the desire to learn English itself was something I immediately recognised in them as rather diminished. My teaching approach therefore tried to focus on the ways in which the English language did bare relevance on their lives, as I incorporated elements from video games and films into my class, and did a lesson where I talked about Arsenal football club, my team, and incidentally also the home of superstar Chilean footballer Alexis Sanchez at the time. Such approaches I thought helped keep the class more engaged, and certainly prevented my lessons from being tedious exercises of repetition or copying-out verb tables.

I am outgoing by nature, and really excited by the possibility of working with you in what would be a completely new environment for me, where I am sure I will live up to the challenge. I would hope to convert my wealth of knowledge on language learning itself into a valuable asset for you, and a likeable teacher for the students, and would be sure to engage myself in all aspects of scholastic life.

I have a lot of experience living abroad which began in 2016 during my Chinese Studies degree, which gave me the amazing opportunity of moving to China for a year. I absolutely loved it, and from this experience I know that I will easily be able to adjust to life in Korea. I have already experienced homesickness and culture shock, and I am certain that next time I encounter it I will easily cope. I am an outgoing, sociable and optimistic individual, and one of my favourite things to do is brighten other peoples' day. I am fond of learning languages, and thanks to my adaptability I am able to pick up new languages quickly, which I hope to do in South Korea with the Korean language. I am well-organised, dependable and reliable, so people can always count on me.

I have been teaching English online through a website called cambly for 4 months now and I teach both children and adults. I am very patient with their language learning and very upbeat to keep the class interesting. I am flexible with my teaching to accommodate with the different types of people that I teach so that they stay engaged with the lesson.