Patricia

Ich würde allen Lernenden auf italki eine Unterrichtsstunde mit Patricia empfehlen. Meiner Erfahrung nach ist Patricia eine der besten Lehrer*innen auf dieser App. Hilfreich, intelligent, zuverlässig, direkt, unterstützend: alles, was man von einem/einer Lehrer/in braucht.

Patricia is really an amazing teacher ! She is very intuitive and able to adapt to your personal learning goals. At the start, I was unsure about what level of german proficiency I was at. We decided to brush up on a few things like grammar and pronunciation and then Patricia helped me prepare to take the A2 Goethe Exam. We focused mainly on practicing speaking and writing together, but Patricia also went over the structure of the exam and sent me plenty of resources and materials to go through in my free time :) After the exam (which I passed with a 97!), Patricia helped me determine what steps to take next. We decided it would be best to work through B1 while mixing in different concepts from B2 and C1. Together we discussed a whole range of topics. I always enjoyed the conversations we had and the thoughtful explanations and feedback Patricia always gave me :) I can only recommend choosing Patricia as your teacher !

Patricia is a great teacher. She is familiar with the small nuances of German, and can readily point out mistakes and imprecision. Because of her proficiency with both German and English, she is great at finding the best ways to formulate exactly what you want to express. She explains things well, and has had many insightful experiences as a longtime language learner herself, which enables her to understand and sympathize what you are going through in terms of language learning and the difficulties that sometimes arise out of it. Most of all, she is encouraging yet truthful, qualities one should be looking for in a language teacher. My spoken German has improved significantly with her being my main conversational tutor. I definitely recommend that you go and book a lesson with her!

Today’s lesson was about “während, bevor, nachdem und seit”. This is a continuation of last week’s learning of Konjunktionen. It’s a bit confusing. If I lack concentration a little, I make mistakes in the details, such as the word order or so. It seems that it will take more time to use it well in the conversation. But when Patricia corrects my mistakes, immediately I understand them. I think it’s a progress ! It’s nice to feel that I’m moving forward even little by little.

Today’s our lesson was mostly about konunktionen. I think I understand the rule and positions of the words that are mainly about verbs, through her lesson. Before I didn’t know about it and I totally mixed up those three categories of these Konjunktions. I thought there is only one rules of the konjunktionens and the positions of the verbs. Now I know why I was so confused. When I get stuck, Patricia always encourages me. Her comments make me feel relieved. For me, as if, she is telling me where to go by bringing a light in the thick bush.

I have a good lesson today as usual. Today’s unit is about “Hauptsätze verbinden” (position 1). To see this text, it’s simple. Then I can understand next category, “Subjunktionen”, too. In this category, in the part with Konjunktion , the world oder of become the verb comes first and the next subject . Maybe I have to memorize the Konjunktionen belong to this category. But maybe it’s also almost okay. But the last category of that chart Patrizia gave me, isn’t a bit complicated. She told me we’ll keep learning the third part of this chart. It’s very good to learn slowly until I understand mostly. Usually, the teacher finishes the unit more quickly. I may not remember every detail of the lesson, but this intensive learning is definitely good way to learn languages, I think. Especially like me, a student who has only vague grammar rules. Thank you,Patricia!