How mentoring can help between courses

Can you keep up your language skills even though you’re focused on a vital venture like a new baby or a new job?

Yes, you can!

When you currently don’t have time or energy to do classes but you don’t want to lose what you’ve gained, language mentoring can help.

Catherine’s an engineer who’s just started a new role in a big company. There’s lots to learn and her schedule is unpredictable. She needs to make a good impression.

So at the moment Catherine has little headspace left for other learning.

But her German is still important to her. She’s worked long and hard to get to a level where she’s finally able to converse comfortably. The thought of losing that saddens her.

Yet doing classes just isn’t possible right now.

Instead Catherine’s turned to a flexible, low-key and effective solution: language mentoring.

Here’s how we work together:

I message Catherine snippets based on her interests.

She reports what she’s done in German:

watched an episode on Netflix
listened to a news podcast
read a blog post

And we meet on FaceTime to chat in German about anything and everything over a coffee.

All this slots in smoothly into Catherine’s busy week.

Like Dieter with his Spanish, Catherine’s relieved she’s found a painless way to keep up her German.

Want to maintain your hard-earned language skills? I can help.

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