Dimitar

Dimitar is an expert language teacher and I feel lucky to have found him. He is adept at carrying on improvisational conversations that maintain about 80% known vs 20% new material and also has prepared many well-design lessons, which he attentively, patiently, and carefully guides me through. He also provides homework includes pre-made flash cards with personalized audio recordings to ensure I have more than sufficient reference and training material for my own practice time.

Dimitar had patience to wait a few minutes for the lesson to start as I had a family situation to deal with for the first few minutes. We started talking, and he was able to steer the conversation to the new sentence construction we have been working on, and it was a seamless transition. Really enjoyed it!

I have been learning Bulgarian with Dimitar for three years. Thanks to the competence of the teacher, I have reached from A2 to B2\С1 level. I can now read any texts, watch films, listen to difficult lectures, conference papers etc. I communicate freely on any subject. Why did I stay for 3 years with this teacher? Because he: - is prepared for class (maybe this should be obvious, but I have had many language teachers and this is not always the case). - adapts to the needs of the student and selects materials with this in mind. He is flexible and does not push only one line e.g. by teaching from a boring textbook detached from the linguistic purity. - uses a variety of methods, techniques and didactic means - is punctual and conducts a lively lesson - is familiar with several foreign languages and thus knows how to work on errors due to language transfer - enjoys his mother tongue and the culture of his country and knows how to interest a foreigner in his country and language!

Dimitar had a topic to talk about, but he let me describe Lance Armstrong, which was a big help to some words I wouldn't ordinarily use. He is patient in listening, but also has ideas for what to talk about, and has the grammatical background to be able to explain things to make more sense. Thanks, Dimitar!

Dimitar and I got to talk about some current events that are happening now. That is very helpful because I am sure to use all of the ideas he helped me understand in conversation!

We had a good conversation today. He was understanding with some heavy things I brought up, but was able to balance it with a light-hearted topic about a holiday that just passed here in Bulgaria.