Back in 2009 many Spanish engineers started to move to Germany after the credit crunch. They were looking for a new job and a new opportunity in their lives.
Knowing that I was born in Germany, more and more colleagues and friends started to ask me for advice to learn German.
I saw how they struggled so much with the German language: “Manuel, are there really 16 different ways to just say “the”? I’ve seen some weird words even longer than some sentences and I could only see consonants. Can you really pronounce them without seriously hurting your mouth?”.
It seemed so difficult and overwhelming for them.
In the language courses, they didn’t usually have a very personal approach. Classes had a large number of students, the textbooks brought back memories of suppressed schooldays memorizing vocabulary, conjugation and grammar tables.
German tutors couldn’t really connect with our foreign flavour and most courses were made more for the average person than for engineers and their mindset:”It took some effort to master mathematics but this German gender seems like a differential equation with an order above my logic.”
Many of them succeeded to get their language certification but were now faced to really speak with natives, have job interviews or conduct meetings and presentations.
“I’ve been learning German for years and still can’t have a normal conversation with a native.”
I started to wonder if I could help them in a different way, more specific to their real needs and real goals. I was a native speaker, had some experience before teaching German and knew business and technical German very well from my engineering career.
I really believed that I could not just become another German teacher but someone who could deconstruct the German language and reassemble it to solve their German language challenge with their engineering parameters from engineer to engineer.
But let’s rewind for a moment to my background:
My parents moved to Germany in the 70’s. I was born there as a child of the first generation Spaniard immigrants. I grew up bilingual, went to school, studied and got my degree in civil engineering in 2006 in Germany. I always loved teaching and started doing some tutoring parallel to my studies teaching mathematics, and German to other immigrants.
After getting my degree I followed my roots and moved to Spain and started working there as a civil engineer but still being able to collaborate with the biggest German construction companies like Hochtief, Bilfinger, Strabag and Züblin. These were fascinating years for me, were I was able to participate in the biggest civil construction projects in Spain and around the world.
In 2013, I finished a project in Germany and my Boss wanted me to move now to Peru for a new Project. But I was getting really tired of travelling so much and spending so much time away from my family.
I finally decided to quit my corporate job in 2013 and take a time off to reorganise my life.
During this period, I started to help some colleagues to improve their German. Before I could realize, I was teaching more and more German.
While teaching I started to study different approaches to traditional language learning. As an engineer, I was driving by the idea of how to learn German in the most efficient way.
To do that I studied how successful polyglots learned languages. What methods, what tools and materials they used, how they learned vocabulary, grammar structures and how they become so fluent.
I studied the different textbooks and online language programs that were available, what results they achieved, and how engaging they were.
How the right psychological mindset and attitude could influence your progression.
I took advantage of my personal experience going from an intermediate English level to conduct meetings and presentations with the biggest construction companies in Europe (I still haven’t mastered it and I made a lot of funny mistakes, but faced my weaknesses and took adversity head on.)
I wanted to go even deeper and studied specific researches for the German language. Because German has its specific difficulties: the German articles, the gender, the cases, the plural forms, the irregular verbs.
I found great studies about mnemonics to memorize German Grammar structures painlessly and condense them to their essentials.
Then I started to combine all of them to find out what works best.
In hundreds of tutoring sessions, I tested everything and refined it to find out what works best for my students, mostly engineers.
My goal is to help other engineers that need to learn German for their job to become fluent and confident in speaking with their colleagues and clients and to guide them each step of the way.
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