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Austin
مُعلم محترفيعلّم
الإنجليزية
ناطق أصلي
الشيشيوا
يتحدّث
السواحيلية
الإسبانية
الأمهرية
الزولو
Chichewa & English Teacher
يعلّم
الإنجليزية
ناطق أصلي
الشيشيوا
يتحدّث
السواحيلية
الإسبانية
الأمهرية
الزولو
Chichewa & English Teacher
نبذة عني
السيرة الذاتية والشهادات
من الولايات المتحدةيعيش في الولايات المتحدة ،Louisville (١٤:١٥ UTC-04:00)
نبذة عني
معلّم في آيتاكي منذ 25 Aug 2020موضوع الاهتمامالقراءةالكتابةالتاريخ
Note: I work full time outside of iTalki so have little flexibility. The busiest time of my day job is Jan-May, but reach out and I'll see if we can work something out.
I love languages / linguistics. My languages:
1. Swahili (fluent)
2. Chichewa (fluent - I lived in Malawi for 3 years, and my wife is a native speaker so I get plenty of practice)
3. Spanish (proficient - I haven't used it a lot recently so have forgotten a good amount)
4. Amharic (proficient - I lived in Ethiopia for almost a year and learned this. Amharic is, in my opinion, the hardest language I've ever studied)
5. Russian (basics - I studied it in grad school but haven't used it since)
6. Zulu (currently learning)
I have been teaching English for 10 years, inside and outside of the United States. I primarily have experience teaching refugees in the US (particularly one-on-one) and I spent 2 years teaching English to secondary school students in Malawi, a small land-locked nation in Southern Africa. I have a TEFL certification in English and an LPI (OPI) certification from the ACTFL in Chichewa. I think there is a place for native and non-native speakers in teaching. I can help a lot with the grammar and rules of Chichewa, since I had to learn them all myself.
ENGLISH: I treat most lessons more like conversations. I take notes as we talk and share these with you in a Word Doc after the lesson so that you can learn what you have done well and what still needs improvement. I usually organize by grammatical...موادي الخاصة بالتدريس
- ملف بِي دِي إف
- الملفات الصوتية
- نماذج اختبارات وأمثلة
- البطاقات التعليمية
- الوثائق النصّية
- ملفات الصور
- المقالات والأخبار
- الرسوم البيانية والجداول
- الواجبات المنزلية
الشهادات
3+/3+ ILR Certificate - International Center for Language Studies (ICLS) - 2021Intensive full-time immersive course in Swahili in preparation for a job in East Africa. For five months, I spoke exclusively in Swahili for 5 hours a day with a one-on-one tutor, and used another 3 hours for daily self-study. I achieved a 3+/3+ which is higher than the required level to use the language in a professional setting for the company I worked for at the time.
تم التحقق من صحة الشهادة
160 Hour TEFL - TEFL Full Circle - 2021A 160-hour Course which reviewed various teaching methodologies, their strengths and drawbacks, as well as specific grammatical and phonetic qualities of English.
تم التحقق من صحة الشهادة
LPI Certificate in Chichewa - Superior - Peace Corps Malawi - 2019An extended oral interview which contained random and unexpected bits of small talk, along with a difficult scenario question surrounding an abstract topic. My scenario was to describe in detail how gender roles differed in the United States and Malawi, whether this was good or bad, and how the country should go about resolving negative aspects related to these gender norms. I scored a Superior, the highest possible score on the Peace Corps version of the ACTFL ranking system.
تم التحقق من صحة الشهادة
المؤهل الدراسي
2015 - 2021
الماجستير - Master of Divinity
2025 - الحالي
الماجستير - Juris DoctorFirst-year law student, focusing on human rights and international law.
2011 - 2014
البكالوريوس - Philosophy / TheologyFocused on Ancient Philosophy and Global Theology, with an emphasis on syncretism in world religions.
2021 - 2023
الماجستير - International Public Affairs
الخبرة العملية
2016 - 2017
ESL Assistant TeacherAssisted the primary ESL Teacher for Advanced students in lesson planning and facilitating lessons, as well as working with clients to get to appointments throughout the city and guiding them through the process of interacting with local officials.
2017 - 2019
Secondary School English TeacherTaught Secondary/High School Students English for 2 years. During this time, I also became fluent in the national language (Chichewa/Chinyanja) and developed a 200 page manual describing English Grammar written in Chichewa.
2019 - 2020
PCVLAssisted the Programming Team in training new teachers and preparing volunteers to become English Educators for the next two years. Additionally, assisted in cultural awareness and sensitivity workshops.
5.0
التقييم
104
الطلاب
1,001
الدروس
99%
الحضور
100%
الإجابة
دروس الشيشيوا
الشيشيوا
الإنجليزية
درس تجريبي
38 دروس مكتملة
USD 19.00+
Beginner's Chichewa for English Speakers
A1 - C2أساسيات اللغة235 دروس مكتملة
USD 21.00+
حزمة دروس بخصم قيمته 1%
أوقات الإتاحة
إنشاءاتي
اختبار قصير (1)
73 آراء
الجميع
الشيشيوا
الإنجليزية
Patrick
16 الشيشيوا دروس
اختيار المعلّم
Austin helped me understand context & some of the “why” behind what I am studying. Now studying on my own I will be able to learn better from his materials he gave me
٢٣ أبريل ٢٠٢٤
Adrian Kiec
50 الإنجليزية دروس
اختيار المعلّم
Another excellent lesson! Austin understands my level of English and knows which area I need to improve to achieve my goals.
٢ نوفمبر ٢٠٢٠
Chris
4 الشيشيوا دروس
Good first/trial lesson. Clear lesson structure. Will book again. Cheers
١٢ مارس ٢٠٢٥
Muhammedali AKTAS
30 الإنجليزية دروس
اختيار المعلّم
He has a genuine personality and is always genial and patient. I have gained a good improvement especially in my speaking skills with him. İn particular, the feedback notes about my weaker sides were very useful for me. Thanks, Austin. I look forward to booking new lessons.
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Clara Tump
11 الشيشيوا دروس
I can recommend Austin 1000%. I had 11 Chichewa lessons with him, and I loved his lessons and the flexibility in accommodating to what I needed. I requested to learn from Chichewa conversations, thus we did this. At the end of a lesson he had always written down the words/grammar I missed in a google doc, super effective to learn from. He is also very reliable and responsive: always there, and multiple times he put additional effort in creating extra time slots for me when he had run out.
٢٧ مارس ٢٠٢٥
Juju じゅじゅ
6 الشيشيوا دروس
文法だけではなく、私の母語の発音との違いや文化背景などを例に出してくれるので、初めて学ぶ言語でも理解しやすいです。
٥ يناير ٢٠٢٥
درس تجريبي
USD 19.00
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