My name is Sonja and I am the founder of Holistic Language Coach. Welcome to my blog! Please, read my story and why did I create the HOLISTIC LANGUAGE COACH?
Finding passion
Since I have been a small kid, my passion has been the German language. As a kid I loved to read and write short stories.
In 2007 I finished school and I lived a year abroad in Latvia in Eastern Europe to teach German, English and French to young adults. I realized teaching a language is not that easy. After my volunteer service I started university in Tübingen, Germany and studied German Language (Germanistik) and Anthropology. That’s the moment where I discovered my love for German grammar and structure.
For me the perfect union of the German Language and Anthropology was teaching German as a Foreign Language. Here it is where language and culture meet. So I did a course to get a license to teach and learned methods and techniques to be a better and more successful teacher.
Finding my purpose
In another volunteer service in Chile in South America and obtained more practice while giving German Classes in a High School. I loved it!
Finally I came back to Germany to get my university degree and left again to South America to work in a German School in southern Chile. After one year I realized that I prefer to work with adults and not in schools. I started to work as a freelancer for the Latin American Center of the University of Heidelberg and the Goethe Institut of Santiago de Chile teaching German from the levels A1 to C1.
The brith of Holistic Language Coach
After all these years of teaching my mother tongue, I realized that learning German is an individual process. Often students feel overwhelmed with the quantity of information in German courses and feel a lack of practicing speaking or writing. Every student is unique and comes with his own struggles. Because of this experience I created the Holistic Language Coach, we see the student as a whole with his personal needs and individual goals, we help to overcome the difficulties and achieve the goals!!
