English as a second life

Today I'd like to tell a thing, which I wanted to tell a while ago, but owing to lack of time, I haven’t done it yet. So, the subject is my English tutor. She does her best in order to teach us language, so we should be grateful and do a little bit more then we do usually.

Firstly I want to tell you how I came up with the idea to publicize this post.  Yesterday in the Tatiana’s blog I saw warm article about one of her student and idea suddenly came in to my mind: “I really should write an article about her teaching because it filled with kindness, care and love and I do want to show it from student’s side”.

When we decided to learn English, as far as I remember, it was the end of 2010 year, we were looking for a tutor who could help us to pass our exam in university, and we have found Tania (thanks to Denis school, it’s a long story). I can hardly believe that we started out first lesson from recalling the alphabet and we were so far from English, it obviously was elementary level. After we had learned a lot of grammar structures, words, and some linkers, we started speaking and writing, it took half a year totally, and at that time we could say that we reached pre-intermediate. What’s more, those were lovely days when I suddenly realized that I could speak, not a lot but nevertheless I could. At that moment I was so inspired, I wanted learn English everyday, I did homework with enthusiasm, I wrote out some words which I wanted to remember, as well as a lot of other things.

But unfortunately, we had a 3-month break because of summer that resulted in forgetting almost everything that we had learned. Then fall of 2011 had started and we met again with a vestige of knowledge in our heads.

But Tania again awoke our interest in English, which was triggered by creative lessons, kindness, and love that she used despite mood, weather, and time. We were engaged in lessons sort of academic year, whereas we were overloaded with our university lectures, seminars and projects, so we cancelled a lot of classes and couldn't do our homework properly, despite this we learned many useful things and increased our level again.  

The summer of 2012 we had decided prepare for IELTS and stopped canceling classes and worked with diligence. There were changes for Tatiana either, she had quitted from her job and started working on her's own. Since that moment she have made even more interesting, inspiring and creative lessons, just as more people are glad to be her students. She is pretty dedicated teacher, she creates lesson for students, taking into account their possibilities and needs.

To sum up I would go so far as to say that for me it is very complicated to me write such a long post, because while I was writing I kept loosing my central idea sometime, apparently I was making mistakes and as a result it might look sort of messy.

Nevertheless throughout this post I want to thank Tatiana for believing and loving her students. And I wish her a lot of smiles and more grateful people; she really deserves it because she makes the world better.