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I don't teach students to sound like a textbook. I teach them to sound like themselves — just in another language.

Nastaran English Teacher

For eight years, I've taught English. But the longer I teach, the more I realize that language is rarely just about language. It's about the joke you want to tell but can't quite translate. The opinion you keep to yourself because you're unsure how to phrase it. The version of you that exists in your head but gets lost somewhere between thinking in your first language and speaking in another. That's the part of English I'm interested in. My classes are where grammar meets real life, vocabulary finds a purpose, and learning becomes more than collecting correct answers. I want my students to develop their own way of expressing ideas—not borrow someone else's. Because the real breakthrough isn't when you speak like a native speaker. It's when you finally sound like yourself.

If learning English were a perfectly straight line, teaching would be much easier. Luckily, real learning is a little messier. It's the student who forgets a word they've used a hundred times, invents a sentence that makes me smile, asks a question no textbook prepared us for, and somehow remembers a tiny detail from three lessons ago. Those moments remind me why I love teaching. With eight years of experience, I've learned that progress doesn't always announce itself with a perfect score. Sometimes it sounds like a longer answer, a braver question, or a student who no longer needs permission to try. So I leave room for curiosity, unexpected conversations, mistakes, and those wonderfully imperfect moments when English starts to feel less like a school subject and more like something you own.

Some passports take you across borders. A language can take you somewhere just as interesting: into conversations, ideas, cultures, and possibilities you couldn't quite reach before. That's how I see English—not as a mountain of rules to conquer, but as a door with more than one way in. Over eight years of teaching, I've worked to make that door easier to open. Sometimes that means breaking a complicated grammar point into something surprisingly simple. Sometimes it means finding the right question to turn a quiet student into an enthusiastic storyteller. Every learner arrives with a different destination, so I don't believe in teaching everyone as if they're following the same map. My goal is to help you build the language you need for the world you want to explore—and make sure your own voice comes along for the journey.