Serbian tutor

Got emotional rereading this review from March 8, 2016 I have been studying on and off for a while. I have probably taken 120 hours of lessons from Ivana. I am an older learner an age that is thought of as being too old to pick up a new language. When I first began and ordered the textbook that we have used my first inclination was to flip through the book. When I looked at the last couple of chapters I thought to myself There is no way I will be able to learn this wha...t have I gotten myself into? The initial panic passed and I have been studying with Ivana for a few years. I never thought I was making any significant progress. I am always reading on the internet that you can learn a language in 12 weeks if only you follow their hacks. Maybe I needed hacks?? This past week I picked up the textbook after probably 6 months without looking at it and started working on the 2nd to last chapter. I was translating the 1st section and was about halfway through when I realized that not only did I understand everything, I only needed to look up a couple of words (and even these I understood through context or parsing before looking them up). The point I am trying to make is that Ivana kept things interesting while teaching me the nuts and bolts of the language. We jumped around from the text book, but also mixed in comic books, articles, speaking, cultural discussions, advertisements, etc. If I had a question I would email it to Ivana and she would always help me out. Now I am speaking Croatian every day with my wife, although I imagine it as a Croatian cave-man may have talked. I think my speaking will continue to improve. It pleases my wife that I can understand her conversations and take part in family conversations. If you have a spouse that wants to teach you, that’s great, but try to imagine if you had to teach English to somebody else. Do you think you could explain the difference between a gerund and a present particle or a 1st conditional sentence vs. a 2nd? These are things as native speakers we know instinctively. There are no language hacks that you can pull off if you want to learn a language. If you only want to be able to say a few sentences in Croatian because you are taking a holiday there then Ivana can help you. If you want to really learn the language then you really need her help. The 120 hours of lessons that I took is the equivalent of about one year of formal classes in a school setting. Even if I lived in an area that offered formal training the one-on-one tutoring is really the most efficient and cost effective way to learn a new language. If I can do it so can you. Thank you Ivana for all of your support, encouragement and friendship -- Phil See more

check out this one - it has good reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=speak.serbian

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