Green Star
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I am a native English speaker (from Austin, Texas, USA). My firm Green Star provides language services in Wrocław, Poland.
SERVICES:
- English and Esperanto formal lessons or conversation practice.
- Proofreading English and Esperanto text.
- Translation between Polish/English/Esperanto.
LESSONS:
I have experience teaching at all levels from beginning to advanced. Since I used to work in the software industry, I often teach English to programmers, testers, and graphic developers who are interested in focusing on language specific to their work.
Lessons are tailored to your needs and desires. Everyone has their own reasons to study English, for example:
- Work
- Communicating with foreign colleagues
- Reading information you need for you work
- Traveling on business
- Helping your career by improving your skill set
- School
- Understanding classes taught in English
- Communicating with foreign students
- Specializing in English
- Reading information you need for your research
- Studying abroad
- Travel and tourism
- Socializing with friends
- Personal hobbies (films, music, books, magazines)
Everyone has their own concrete learning goals, for example:
- Improve their general conversational skills
- Make fewer grammar mistakes
- Reduce foreign accent and mispronounced words in speech
- Increase vocabulary
- Improve reading comprehension
- Write with better grammar and spelling and style
I am happy to develop specific plans to address specific problems, or to give general lessons covering a variety of topics.
Language lessons can take place in my apartment in the city center, your workplace or home, or some other mutually agreeable location.
TEXT SERVICES: I also provide proofreading and translation services. I have personal and professional experience with:
- Proofreading academic papers, work documents, games, etc (English and Esperanto)
- English/Esperanto translation of articles, fiction, films, games
- Polish/English and Polish/Esperanto translation of articles, fiction, and films with a native Polish-speaking colleague
- Localizing software
EXPERIENCE:
- CELTA-certification for English instruction
- Volunteer work teaching English to immigrants in Austin for Literacy Austin
- Various awards and publications (original and translated work)
- short fiction
- technical articles
- news articles
- University degrees
- BA (Mathematics, Computer Science) Columbia College
- MS (Computer Science) University of Texas
- Relevant professional work history includes:
- Software development
- Internationalization, localizing software and websites to foreign languages
- Programming and testing methodologies
- Website development
- Computer and board game design and development
- Film subtitling
- Software development
CONTACT:
You can email me or call my cellphone at 510 946 163.
Russell Williams Green Star
ul. Widok 12/10
50-052 Wrocław
NIP 8971713474
Regon 020262948
