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🌟Karen🌟
English
Native
Afrikaans
Spanish
French
Chinese (Mandarin)
German
Italian

From South Africa

Living in Johannesburg, South Africa

Top 1% of English Italki teachers 2022! 13 years teaching English; love painting, outdoors. Ready to elevate your English for business or global conversations? My dual-degree and years living worldwide give me unique cross-cultural insight, making every lesson practical and engaging. As a top 1% Italki teacher in 2022, I specialize in helping adults (18–80) build confidence and fluency, especially for professional and academic goals. I love exploring films, books, and current events, and enjoy connecting with people from every background. With expertise spanning business, arts, and sciences, our discussions are always lively and tailored to your ambitions. Join me to unlock your English—no matter where you are!
My teaching material
  • PDF file
  • Text Documents
  • Presentation slides/PPT
  • Audio files
  • Image files
  • Video files
  • Flashcards
  • Articles and news
  • Quizzes
  • Test templates and examples
  • Homework Assignments
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Interests

Food
Business & Finance
Medical & Healthcare
Films & TV Series
Travel
Trial Lesson
526 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Business English for Professionals & Medical Specialists
A2-C2
Language Essentials
544 lessons completed
USD 19.00+
14% off
Loyalty Discount Package (20+ Lessons) - book only once you have had 20 General English lessons. only for General English, not Business, medical, Cultural etc lesssons
B1-B2
Language Essentials
1,260 lessons completed
USD 8.00+
10% off
General English & Vocabulary Building (Levels B1 to C1)
B1-C2
Conversation
1,707 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
17% off
Cross-Cultural Communication & Engagement
B1-C2
Conversation
0 lessons completed
USD 25.00+
10% off
Beginners English - from Zero t A2
A1-A2
Language Essentials
0 lessons completed
USD 25.00+
10% off
Practical English Pronunciation Mastery
A2-C2
Language Essentials
0 lessons completed
USD 16.00+
10% off
Conversational English for Global Travelers
A2-B2
Conversation
0 lessons completed
USD 14.00+
30% off
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For beginners·65
Bo Pang
23 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
In this lesson, Karen helped me with my pronunciation and fluency. I read some articles after her and this helped me improve my awareness of stress and intonation. And then I repeated the sentence that she read without seeing the article, and this is a form of test in PTE, which I'm preparing for. It's an effective lesson.
Giuseppe
191 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
I did an outstanding conversation with Karen. It was a historical description of Italian economic history. Karen is an amazing teacher who helps me to handle different topics in the right way of speaking. Thank you!
adriana sierra
5 English lessons
not satisfy, I hope more
Student Andrew
Andrew
342 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
Awesome, I recommend her classes 100%. She offers a kindly and no judgemental environment. Karen is a very intelligent person, so is not only fun but also informative to talk to her. :) Waiting anxiously for the next lesson
adriana sierra
5 English lessons
not satisfy. the classes are of 50 min. they should be 60 min. I needed more practice in my talking not grammar
Odile
6 English lessons
It was nice to speak about South-Africa as I am preparing a trip to this beautiful country. I booked my first lesson with Karen because she is a star-teacher. After the first lesson, she told me that we will work a little on pronunciation, and on mastering listening to accents and colloquialisms. So I booked a five-lesson package. During the first two lessons we did a bit of reading and watching a South-African comedian but she neither corrected my accent nor told me how to use colloquialisms. Karen was reading messages on her phone during the lessons and was yawning when I was talking.