About

Hey, I’m Kent and I come from New Zealand. Like many native English speakers I grew up in a monolingual household and I didn’t start learning languages until high school. Unfortunately for me, I quickly became disillusioned with the traditional methods of language teaching and dropped French after my first year.

It wasn’t until later, in my early twenties when I was on an overseas deployment with the NZ Army in East Timor that I started getting into languages first Tetum and Portuguese (the two official languages of East Timor). This started the itch to travel and I decided to leave the army and spend a year abroad in Heidelberg, Germany with the goal of learning the language.

At the time I didn’t really have an idea on how to go about learning a language. So I enrolled at a local language school taking intensive classes for an entire year. I ended up making a lot of progress, but not as much as I had hoped, going from complete beginner to B2. I came back home feeling disillusioned with my abilities and language learning.

Ever since then I’ve been busy finding ways to improve my language learning methods and learning languages through self-study which I’ve found to be much more rewarding and has led to much better results. I ended up going to university and getting degree Linguistics and German and have since learnt French and become a dad.

The purpose of this website is just to share my thoughts when it comes to language learning and provide other language learners with some tips, strategies and other tricks I’ve learnt along the way so far and language app/course reviews.

Here are some quick facts about me!

• Bachelor’s Degree Majoring in Linguistics and German
• Fluent in German & French
• Live between France/New Zealand
• 8 years of teaching experience
• Love travelling, history, food, gaming
• Cambridge CELTA qualified (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

Fluent in: English, French, German.
Currently learning: Russian.
Want to learn: Māori, Italian.