I look forward to interacting with you through this channel and if you choose, one-on-one. I am a teacher of English for non-native speakers. I help individuals become fluent in speaking, listening, reading and writing. This enables my students to do well in English assessment test. As these tests are often critical to academic enrollment, certification requirements as well as immigration, I also
teach strategies for performing well in tests such as IELTS, CELPIP and other similar tests. I have studied in English all my life and am as fluent in English as I am in my mother tongue, Bengali. I use a multidisciplinary approach to teaching based on the experience I have gathered from over 25 years of teaching and coaching English and business subjects such as Economics, Finance and Commerce. I have a BBA in Finance and Economics and an MBA in International Business. I am passionate about learning new things and passing the acquired knowledge to my students, peers, friends. My motto is ‘sharing is caring,’ and ‘treat others the way you want to be treated.’
I will leave you with a little bit of information that will provide you some encouragement whether you choose to work with me or not. English is spoken by people of all nationalities and there are many native English accents. Sounding native is less about grammar than it is about practice. In my humble opinion, it is more important to become fluent and to properly enunciate the words spoken so that it is easily understood than it is to have a ‘native’ accent. Practice is the only way to get there. However, one of the greatest impediments to gaining fluency of a language is shyness. This entire notion is based on the fear that someone will think lesser of us because we have an accent or our grammar is a little off or we don’t know enough words to get our point across. The good news is that most people are more flattered than annoyed if we try to speak their primary language. For most of us learning English, the one thing we often forget to take into consideration is that English is not our first language! Knowing this next little fact, that you will intuitively know to be true, will instantly give you a great deal of confidence! The fact is that a very small fraction of people in the world are able to speak a second language and certainly fewer are able to speak it as well as we speak English, our second or third language. So, when speaking, listening, reading or writing in English, do it with pride and a smile!
