Nick Swerdlow

19/03/2025

Here's why I love my job!🙂

Because I get to work with enthusiastic learners like Andrea, and see them learn to speak English fluently and use their English to open up exciting opportunities like guiding tours in English.
https://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/
https://storyprompt.com/watch/IcvQLBQuI4di8AhQcWwM

Hi, I'm Andrea from Spain, a tour guide now offering tours in English, thanks to my collaboration with Nick. He's helping me learn necessary vocabulary and the best ways to present stories to my audience. I highly recommend Nick for anyone looking to enhance their guiding skills in a new language.

03/03/2025

Do you need to talk about historical wars, invasions and social instability in English on your walking tour?
Well, this is a good opportunity for you to improve the English that you need on your tour. In this edition of The tour guide's English tea break you can learn to talk about conflict and instability in English on your tour.
Which historical conflicts have you talked about in English on your tours? 🙂

Welcome back to The tour guide’s English tea break, the new monthly blog that gives you the chance to relax with a tea or coffee, find out about fascinating locations from around the world, a…

28/02/2025

Welcome back to The tour guide's English tea break, the monthly blog that gives you the chance to find out about fascinating locations, and practise useful English that you can use on your tour.😊
This time we are going to find out all about an astonishing monastery in a mountainside in Spain, and you can learn useful phrases for talking about conflict and instability on your tour. ⛰🌄
Take a look! You can enjoy The Tour Guide's tea break for just 4€ a month. 😉

Welcome back to The tour guide’s English tea break, the new monthly blog that gives you the chance to relax with a tea or coffee, find out about fascinating locations from around the world, a…

12/02/2025

Would you like to guide tours in English with confidence? 🌍✨
Don’t let English hold you back! Start building your skills today with English courses for tour guides to help you to guide English tours that fascinate your tour groups! 🙂
https://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/

30/01/2025

Quiz Question: Can you identify this building? 😉
Discover which part of it was inspired by St Peter's Basilica in the first edition of The tour guide's English tea break, a new blog all about English for tour guides, offering insights into fascinating landmarks and practical English skills for your tours. In this edition, you'll learn how to use passive sentences to highlight important places and buildings on your tour.

Welcome to The tour guide’s English tea break, a new monthly blog that gives you the chance to relax with a tea or coffee, find out about an interesting landmark from around the world, and pr…

27/01/2025

Welcome to The tour guide’s English tea break, a new blog about English for tour guides! It’s a chance to relax with a cup of tea or coffee, find out about an interesting place from around the world, and practise useful English that you can use in your guided tours. I hope you enjoy it!
You can sign up to get The tour guide’s English tea break every month for only 4€.

Welcome to The tour guide’s English tea break, a new monthly blog that gives you the chance to relax with a tea or coffee, find out about an interesting landmark from around the world, and pr…

17/01/2025

For me, one of the best things about teaching is seeing tour guides like Roberto learning to guide tours confidently in English!🙂

https://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/
https://storyprompt.com/watch/3Dckjb52ponPfFxxn6eP

I'm Rob, a tour guide from Madrid with 20 years of experience, primarily guiding in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. I've been working with Nick to improve my English to start offering tours for British and American clients. Nick has significantly helped enhance my language skills and tour preparat...

13/01/2025

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a good start to the new year. 🙂
As an English teacher, I'm excited about helping tour guides to guide tours more fluently in English.

If you would like to improve the English that you use on your tours in 2025, let's have a chat to see how I could help you to develop the English that you need to guide your English tours.

This is your opportunity to develop the English skills that you need to guide your tours in English with English courses that fit into your busy life.

28/12/2024

The New Year is almost here! How will you make the most of your opportunities in 2025?
If you plan to tours in English in the new year, then make sure that you are ready to make the most of your opportunities. Get Ready for your English Tour supports you to develop your English as a so that you can guide better tours in . On the course, you'll benefit from 1-to-1 learning and a learning plan that helps you to make progress in your own time.
If you'd like to know more, click below or send me a message. It would be great to hear from you.🙂
http://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/

21/12/2024

Merry Christmas!!

2024 has been a big year of learning and growth. Helping you to improve the English that you use as tour guides has been both interesting and educational. Thank you for being a part of it.

18/12/2024

Making progress with your English can make a real difference in your life. 😉 As a teacher, it's really gratifying to see learners like Elena, who passed an interview in English and achieved her aim of getting on to the tour-leading course that she wanted!👏
http://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/

13/12/2024

So, you’re going to guide tours in English, but you don’t feel ready to give your best tour in English yet.
Don’t worry! Get ready for your English tour helps you to get ready to give interesting tours in English that your tour groups feel involved in.
You'll get plenty of opportunities to practise your tour in English and learn from my feedback in one-to-one sessions as well as a specialised learning plan to improve in your own time.
Click below to find out more, or send me a message.🙂
http://nick-teaches.com/english-for-tour-guides/