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Nicholas Hodsdon

English

Native

Spanish

From United Kingdom

Living in Valencia, Spain

Conversation, culture, business English or interview practice with native UK English speaker. Hello! I am from London, UK. I have degrees in maths and philosophy from Cambridge and London universities. I also have a background in business and finance. More recently, I have been travelling in Latin America and Europe, slowly improving my Spanish and absorbing the culture. I spend a lot of time travelling, but I always bring my laptop with me, so I should be available for lessons! I believe that learning languages is about more than just gaining an extra tool to help you communicate when you travel or in your career. My personal experience is that learning a language also helps you to think differently by broadening your mind. As a learner, I do best when I define my own goals and my teacher is there to support and challenge me. That's the approach that I follow as a teacher. I do not have any particular training in teaching English, but I am able to help and guide you, whether you want to practice your conversational English; talk about technical business or scientific topics; discuss culture or politics; or prepare for exams, job interviews or presentations. I can also help you prepare texts in English to an extremely high standard in terms of structure and style.

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Trial Lesson

22 lessons completed

USD 6.00+

English conversation or presentations

B1-C2

Conversation

391 lessons completed

USD 6.00+

5% off

Interview preparation

B1-C2

Language Essentials

15 lessons completed

USD 17.00

Challenge for Advanced Students: Cryptic Crosswords

C1-C2

Language Essentials

1 lessons completed

USD 15.00

34% off

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5.0

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For beginners·1

Marco

5 English lessons

Nicholas is a good teacher

Yun

1 English lesson

A very nice teacher!

Neo Zheng

16 English lessons

very good

Marco

5 English lessons

Great lesson. Thank Nicholas.

Neo Zheng

16 English lessons

awesome

Emma

5 English lessons

🥖I : Could you please try not to interrupt me? 🥖He : It's because of the noisy background. I can't hear you clearly. 🥖I : I'm sorry I have to take the class in such an environment. But this is the only chunk of time I got during a day. 🥖He : It's not a good environment to have class. It's unreasonable to ask someone to give class in this environment. 🔴 In short : I requested not to interrupt me → He changed the subject to the environment, which is not → I apologize for that → I'm not eligible to take his class. He deserves better students than me. 🌕 Details : The interruption also happened when it wasn't noisy. I think it's common to be stuttering. Otherwise, I won't have to take a speaking class. The first 3 classes was OK. The teacher interrupted me sometimes, but not too much. But the last time, he kept interrupting by "I know what you mean…" and wouldn't let me finish sentences. So frustrating. 行，我不配上您老的课，谁配谁上吧