1.What are your personal top three tricks and tips when teaching languages?

It’s not easy to motivate students so I often use computers and the Internet. They like it and this way of learning makes them more active. Another trick is my sense of humor. When I see that my students aren’t interested in the lesson, I try to make them laugh (not too hard, of course). My last tip/trick is the teacher’s behavior. He should act like students sometimes, so he can understand their problems.

2.Which word do you always have trouble pronouncing?

I don’t have many problems with pronunciation now but I remember a word that was quite hard for me to pronounce at the beginning. It’s a German word for teacher – „der Lehrer“. It has this difficult German „r“ (rolling „r“).