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Purnima

English

Native

Hindi

Bengali

Japanese

Thai

Other

Spanish

From India

Living in Jacksonville, United States

Compassionate, student-centered teacher living in the USA with over 15 years of teaching experience Hi everyone! My name is Purnima and I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I've worked as a university ESL instructor for more than 10 years and I have a Master's degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and have been teaching on italki for three years . I've lived in America for more than four years, and I've also lived in India for 20 years, and in Thailand for 17 years. I teach English and Hindi online and I have students from all different parts of the world. I've taken the TOEIC test and I have a perfect score of 990. I love Salsa and Bachata dancing, and I am a trained classical Indian dancer. I love travelling and have been to over thirty countries. I'm a very kind and compassionate teacher and I always put students' needs before mine. I am a very good listener and a problem solver. I love getting to know each student, and finding out about their dreams and goals in life, so I can work around that and help them as much as I can to remain inspired and help them achieve their goals in any way that I can. I respect each student's identity and I appreciate the different personalities of students and the special things that they have to offer as an individual. I'm a very open-minded teacher and my classes are student-centered. I give students a lot of time in class to share their opinions and ask me questions about the topic being taught. I always have short warm-up activities for each lesson so that the students get comfortable and are presented with ...

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
Graphs and charts
Homework Assignments

Interests

Science

Travel

Films & TV Series

Art

History

English

Hindi

Trial Lesson

443 lessons completed

USD 10.00+

English to improve Conversation skills (for all ages)

A1-C2

Conversation

985 lessons completed

USD 14.00+

4% off

English to improve Reading skills (all levels)

A1-C2

Language Essentials

28 lessons completed

USD 14.00+

4% off

Customizable English lesson (based on your requirements)

A1-C2

Language Essentials

334 lessons completed

USD 14.00+

4% off

English to improve Listening skills

A1-C2

Language Essentials

11 lessons completed

USD 14.00+

4% off

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Nivedi Das

4 Hindi lessons

Nima asks me good questions for me to practice my vocabulary. She also gave me suggestions on ways to practice outside of the class sessions.

Nasir

85 Hindi lessons

Another great lesson with Purnima. She does a great job at pacing the lessons and catering the content to your current level in order to develop your conversational skills!

Jamuna Sheth

3 Hindi lessons

I appreciate how Purnima keeps talking to me in Hindi and is patient with my broken replies. She is very easy to speak with which makes learning a language much easier. Thank you for the lessons!

Nasir

85 Hindi lessons

Another great lesson with Purnima! She's been great at building materials for the lessons and catering the material for my skill level.

Nasir

85 Hindi lessons

Purnima has been a great tutor in helping to build my Hindi fundamentals. Highly recommend!

Nasir

85 Hindi lessons

Another great lesson with Purnima. She constantly gives great examples and provides a good structure for learning Hindi.