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  • So my name is Fanny. I'm 29 years old and I come from Belgium

  • I love teaching because I like sharing

  • and because I like passing on my knowledge

  • and because I like

  • teenagers I guess because I usually teach teenagers

  • and I love interacting with them

  • because I love English.

  • I think English is a beautiful language.

  • Well! Don't... first don't get discouraged

  • because it can be hard at times

  • because we always say for some reason people

  • always say this that English is a easy language I don't think it's that easy.

  • So motivation - don't get discouraged

  • and try to surround yourself with English like

  • and try to talk to English speakers.

  • Try to listen to the radio.

  • Try to watch TV.

  • Just try to create an English speaking environment.

  • I think that's the best piece of advice that I could give.

  • An ideal student would be a student who understands pretty quickly

  • and who asks questions.

  • Who is interested - who is motivated... yeah

  • I've lived in Germany for a year when I was a student.

  • I've lived and worked in Dublin Ireland.

  • I've been to the UK many times because my father's British.

  • and that's it of course

  • I mean the... France, Italy a lot of European countries on a regular basis actually.

  • I go to France on a regular basis.

  • I spend usually spend my summers in Spain.

  • I go to Italy as well very often.

  • I speak French, English, German, and Italian.

  • French

  • I just felt it.

  • I don't know how else to explain it.

  • I basically studied conference interpreting so I was an interpreter.

  • And I...

  • wasn't satisfied for some reason.

  • And I really wanted to try teaching.

  • I don't know why it's just even when I was a child and like I used to play with a

  • blackboard and you know pretend that I was a teacher so I really wanted to try.

  • So I did. And the first time I was in a classroom, I think it took me about 10

  • minutes to realize that that's what I wanted to do.

So my name is Fanny. I'm 29 years old and I come from Belgium

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