Silvia - English reading teacher - Valencia
Silvia - English reading teacher - Valencia

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Silvia will be happy to arrange your first English reading lesson.

Silvia

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Silvia will be happy to arrange your first English reading lesson.

  • Rate 24€
  • Response 24h
  • Students

    Number of students Silvia has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

    50+

    Number of students Silvia has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

Silvia - English reading teacher - Valencia
  • 5 (21 reviews)

24€/h

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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Silvia will be happy to arrange your first English reading lesson.

About Silvia

Hi, I’m Silvia! I was born in Slovakia, then my family moved to Canada when I was 2 years old.

English is not the first language I started learning — nor the second. The first kindergarten I went to had 30 kids, and 25 of them were Chinese. Can you guess what language I started picking up? But of course, my parents moved me to another kindergarten as soon as they realized. And that's how I narrowly avoided becoming a Slovak-born Canadian who spoke fluent Chinese.

Instead, English became my native language. I do everything in English — work, play, study, dream, think. But I still had early exposure to several other languages — Slovak spoken at home, and French taught at school. These beginnings sparked my fascination (read: obsession?) with languages.

And so I went to university for translation. Spurred by both passion and indecision (and perhaps a teensy bit of insanity), I enrolled in every single foreign language course they offered, from Portuguese to Japanese. I did three internships in translation and English teaching, in Barcelona, Bremen, and Valencia. I really found myself in the work, and thus began my career as a freelancer.

I did my final semester in Bologna, Italy. Having experienced almost 20 Canadian winters with -30 degree weather and 2-meter high snow banks, I wasn’t so eager to add one more to the tally. So after I graduated I decided to stick around in Europe a bit longer, and ended up staying. Now I’m based in Bratislava, and I work full-time as a freelance online English teacher, translator, editor, and copywriter.

That’s enough about me for now — if you’d like to get to know me more, just send me a message and I’d be happy to arrange your first lesson!


►MORE ABOUT MY TEACHING MINDSET
I would call my mindset towards languages progressive. We can prescribe the rules of a language, but at the end of the day, we must also observe it — if a textbook tells you that something is incorrect, but the entire North American continent uses it, can we really call it “wrong”?

I also think nobody should be embarrassed of making mistakes in a foreign language (or even their own!). Of course we should strive to improve, but the end goal is not perfection — it’s communication. It would be a shame to miss out on building bonds and sharing laughs from fear of conjugating wrong.

To that end, I do correct my students, as that’s partially what I’m there for! But we will always maintain a positive and relaxed atmosphere that welcomes mistakes as a tool for learning. I myself make mistakes in every language I speak (just wait to hear me speak yours and you’ll see! ;) )


►EDUCATION
✧ Bachelor’s degree in Translation from the University of Ottawa with 3 practicums (2013-2018)
✧ Editing Certificate from Simon Fraser University (2019-2020)

I am very passionate about my work, and that’s why I love taking courses to learn from experts and continue developing my skills. I’ve completed lots of courses and certificates in teaching English with different focuses. This lets me see different methods for approaching English and gives me an idea of the different kinds of lessons, exercises, and learning styles to choose the best one for each student.

►COURSES
✧ Teaching English one-on-one (2018)
✧ Lesson planning (2018)
✧ Grammar in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2019)
✧ Teaching English pronunciation (2019)
✧ Teaching English word stress (2019)
✧ IELTS preparation course (2017)
✧ Two courses for IELTS Writing Task 2 band 7+ (2019 and 2020)
✧ Two courses for IELTS Writing Task 1 Academic band 7+ (2019 and 2020)
✧ A course for IELTS Writing Task 1 General band 7+ (2019)
✧ Grammar for IELTS band 7+ (2021)
✧ Vocabulary strategies for IELTS band 7+ (2021)
✧ Academic vocabulary for English writing (IELTS band 7+) (2021)
✧ Three courses for IELTS Speaking band 7+ (2019 and 2020)


►HOW I STARTED TEACHING
My career in teaching started back in high school in Canada. In my senior years, and later in university, I gave private lessons to children and teenagers (for English, French, Math, and playing the piano).

During university, I did three internships related to languages. The last one was in Valencia, where I gave weekly Business English lessons to 15 senior employees in a multinational eCommerce company.

I started giving private online English lessons in my third year of university. When I graduated in 2018, I started working full-time as a freelance English teacher, translator, editor, and copywriter.

In 2019, I also started teaching with Berlitz, one of the top language academies in the world, with more than 500 centers across 70 countries.


►SUMMARY OF MY EXPERIENCE
✧ 5+ years of experience giving private lessons in American English online
✧ 5000+ hours of private lessons in American English online
✧ Communicating with students in Spanish, French, Italian, Slovak, German, Russian, and a bit in Portuguese and Chinese (and English of course)
✧ Teaching students of age 9-71
✧ Teaching all levels, from total beginner to advanced speakers who want to perfect their English
✧ Preparing personalized lesson plans
✧ Developing my own lesson materials and exercises
✧ Experience with different teaching methods through participating in more than 10 language courses in Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany, and online


Looking to improve your English? A year from now you'll wish you had started today – don't let time go to waste! Reach out for a free first lesson and I'll be happy to see how I can help!

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About the lesson

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    Primary School

    Secondary School

    Post-Secondary Education

    2nd year of Sixth Form

    Adult education

    Supérieur

    BTS

    A1

    A2

    B1

    B2

    C1

    C2

    Others

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    Intermediate

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    Kids

  • English

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English

I’ve been a private online English teacher for the past 7 years, helping students from all over Europe and South America.

As the business world has shifted more and more online, I noticed that students often struggle with writing emails. Specifically, they worry if their emails are written with the right grammar, level of clarity, and tone in order to make the right impression — or if they are needlessly damaging their business relationships because of poor writing they’re not even aware of.

So I’ve started offering this service to give students the confidence that their written communication makes the impression they want it to make on the reader — by ensuring it is written clearly, correctly, and with the right tone.

But not only that — I want every student to be able to learn and improve through my help. I include comments explaining the corrections, so you can understand the changes that I made, and improve any future texts you write. I know I’ve been successful when you stop needing my help!


✦ WHAT THE CORRECTIONS INCLUDE ✦
✧ Corrections for grammar and vocabulary using “Track Changes” so you can quickly and easily see the changes
✧ Comments explaining the main corrections so you understand the reason behind them and can apply this knowledge yourself in the future
✧ Feedback on the overall structure and tone of the email, in a short video, so you know the email makes the right impression on the reader
✧ Any recommendations I can give you in order to improve grammar weaknesses and improve your English writing skills

Please note that this service is NOT made for Cambridge, TOEFL or IELTS written task corrections. It is meant for real-life written communication, such as emails or other texts you send to other people.

I will also not rewrite your email for you — I keep this offer as affordable as possible, and rewriting an email would take much more time than is covered by this service. If there are very many errors, I will correct and explain the main ones, and give general feedback in the video. It is better this way for you too — too many corrections, and you’ll be overwhelmed! By focusing on the main issues, you’ll be able to fix one problem at a time and see real improvement.


✦ TEXT LENGTHS AND PRICING ✦

✧ Short email / text, up to 250 words
Single: 12 euro
Pack of 10: 110 euro (11 euro each)

✧ Long email / text, up to 500 words
Single: 24 euro
Pack of 10: 220 euro (22 euro each)

If your text is longer than the word limit you’ve chosen, I will correct until that word limit.

For longer texts, please discuss with me privately.


✦ FREE CORRECTION ✦
I offer 1 short (250 words) correction for free!

Is this really free?

Yes, in the sense that I do not receive any payment for it.
However, the way this platform works is that you need to pay for a one-month “student pass” in order to contact teachers. This money goes to Superprof, not to me — that’s how they keep this platform running in order to let you connect with the many fantastic teachers and coaches on this platform!

YOU CAN CANCEL THIS PASS AFTER YOU CONTACT ME, YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP PAYING FOR IT. (If you do not cancel, it automatically renews for another month).

How to make full use of the pass: with the pass, you can contact as many teachers as you like, for as many topics as you like — also looking for private French lessons, or guitar lessons? Now’s your chance to get started!



✦ HOW IT WORKS ✦
✧ I’ll explain to you how you can use the Superprof booking platform to book either single writing corrections, or a package of 10.
✧ Send me your text by email.
✧ I’ll send it back within 2 business days, with “Track Changes” corrections for the main errors, comments explaining the corrections, and a short video giving general feedback on your text.
✧ If you have any more questions regarding your email, just reply to the email! I’m here to help.

NOTE that this service does NOT have a “live video lesson” component! It is purely just writing corrections and feedback delivered by email and a short video that you can watch anytime you like.



Ready to gain the feedback and skills to communicate with confidence in written English? Just reach out and let’s get started! :-)

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  • 24€

Pack rates

  • 5 h: 110€
  • 10 h: 220€

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  • 24€/h

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