How does Individual Consultation Work?

Our consultant is somewhat like an interior designer who will visit your house, checking it out from a number of angles, feeling its atmosphere, and listening carefully to what you desire. Knowing about the general arrangement of living spaces as well as all the little details, they will soon suggest solutions to how your goals may be achieved. Some things are already there, a little more emphasis will make them perfect. Others need some elements modified. And yet others have to be built up from scratch.

The end result is always the process of thinking and experimenting together. The interior designer has a wide range of experience: in a certain situation this or this method can create more natural light, or these are the possible surface materials, or this is the range of extras. The client will consider the suggestions and choose the most appropriate possibility.

We do something similar with your language goals. Our work can focus on your linguistic knowledge as well as your communication skills with people, certain parts of your cognitive processes, your familiarity with the target culture and so on. We will put ourselves in your shoes and see what possible paths lead to your goals. Then, together with you, we choose one that is the most appropriate for you. Moreover, if needed, you will be provided with some guides for the trip. These experts, besides being insiders to the language and culture in question, love the world that you want to join, therefore they can demonstrate its most attractive aspects for you.

In order to achieve real proficiency in the target language you must be in constant (ideally daily) contact with the language and culture for an extended period. Most people do not have time for this to take the form of a separate language lesson. If we can find those daily activities that can be switched to the new language, and keep you on track, you will be surprised how soon the new realm will open up for you.

This kind of relationship is always personal and has an element of intimacy. In order to really be of assistance we need to feel your life, dreams and thinking processes which can only be achieved through open, personal and candid communication. If we feel no contact with you or believe we would not be able to significantly further your cause, we will tell you so.

Since we are not a top-down organization but a loose association of fairly individualistic persons, we cannot guarantee we will have free capacity for you. But you can always check…

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