Practice English with Melina

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Melina

North American Accent
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Expertise: Conversation Practice · English for Business · English for Interviewing

Works with: True Beginner · Beginner · Intermediate · Upper Intermediate · Advanced
Also speaks: Spanish (Fluent) · Catalan (Conversational) · Portuguese (Basic)
Familiar with: English for Travel · Art · Business · Entertainment · Education · IELTS · TOEFL
Expertise: Conversation Practice · English for Business · English for Interviewing

Works with: True Beginner · Beginner · Intermediate · Upper Intermediate · Advanced
Also speaks: Spanish (Fluent) · Catalan (Conversational) · Portuguese (Basic)
Familiar with: English for Travel · Art · Business · Entertainment · Education · IELTS · TOEFL

Hello!

I´m quite sure I can help you to achieve your goals! Lets work together and start speaking English!!!

I´m a native English Teacher with more that 25 years of experience. I live and give classes in Barcelona since 2004. I´m from California (100% bilingual - English/Spanish), where I used to teach English and Spanish to Company Directors on the border area U.S.A/Mexico. I was also an interpreter in legal cases facilitating communication between lawyer/client; in the education sector helping Spanish speaking parents and students that had emigrated to the U.S. I´ve also been dancing for nearly my whole life. I´m now in a stage where I´m performing as a solo, in collaboration with other people, leading workshops, showing my work in festivals, etc. My art work is currently focused on Performance Art, Sound Art, Video and Installation. I really enjoy what I do. I love traveling although with Performance I haven´t been able to do much traveling so I have decided to join both and try to Perform in different places, meeting people and learning from other cultures and Performing in other spaces. My passion has always been oral and body expression, my objective is to fully dedicate myself in these areas, developing my professional career in pedagogy and artistic creation. I also love hiking and try to explore routes wherever I go. I love the thought of having a whole world available to see, feel, smell by just chatting to people from other places, meeting, etc. Everything is so alive and fresh. In the end we are all looking for the same things. I think that if we take care of each other this could be a great experience.

About

Student Preferences

Open to new students

Languages

English (Native: USA Accent)
Spanish (Fluent)
Catalan (Conversational)
Portuguese (Basic)

Industry familiarity

💼 Business
🎨 Art
🏫 Education
🎤 Entertainment

Interests

🎶 Music
🔬 Science
🎨 Art
📜 History
🧐 Philosophy

Specialties

Teaching Style

Learning English should be interesting, dynamic and fun! The goal is that students feel motivated while being in constant interaction in an activity that is interesting, fun and useful. Consistency and discipline gives us satisfactory results for improvement. I'm here to help and provide you with the tools to improve, it is in you to put the energy and dedication to achieve your goals!

Preferred Levels

True Beginner
Beginner
Intermediate
Upper Intermediate
Advanced

Language Skills Focus

Conversation Practice
English for Business
English for Interviewing
English for Travel

Standardized Test Familiarity

IELTS
TOEFL