Fedor van Rijn

Background

About Fedor van Rijn

DELTA-qualified English an Dutch language trainer with over 15 years of experience. For the last few years, I have been working online providing language training on behalf of various language schools. in the past, I worked for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), UNICEF and other international organizations in Santiago de Chile and Mexico City on site as well as online. Before moving to Latin America, I did business English language consulting in Italy and Germany. Over the course of my career, I have also worked as an editor, proofreader, transcriptionist and occasionally as a translator to get reports and academic articles ready for publication. I am available for online English and Dutch language courses as well as editing work. Having started out with a Master of Arts degree in Latin & Ancient Greek, I have a substantial grounding in grammar and a good intuition regarding the structures of languages. With my teacher training at Cambridge English and my experience, I provide high-level language courses tailored to individual needs and focused on communicative competence. In addition, my knowledge of Spanish, German, Italian and French gives me extensive insight into the issues speakers of Romance and Germanic languages might encounter when acquiring and improving their English. Finally, I published my first novel called 'The Little Lord of Life and Death', an English-language reworking of the myth of Venus and Adonis as a coming-of-age novel, in 2015. Keywords: hard-working, dependable, precise, people person, customization, thorough analysis of client needs and requirements, good listener, committed, sense of responsibility and ownership, clear and transparent admin. Specialties: Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), United Nations English, explaining grammar, Business English, Business Communication, etymology.