Rory Baskin

• From the San Francisco Bay Area • Love to travel and learn languages • Enjoy talking with people • Studied history at the University of California at Berkeley • Earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching • Think language progress comes from studying and using a language • You can study on your own • You can use what you studied with me • We can talk about anything from everyday things to professional interests

Students should expect: * To communicate in English * To talk about your work or studies, yourself, your life and your interests as works for you * To increase fluency through speaking about real life * To avoid textbook English (Except for exam preparation)

This is my teaching: • Teaching now for three years in the Czech Republic • One-on-one and group lessons online and face-to-face • Teaching adults and students conversation, business, exam preparation and writing • Taught for 30 plus years in Japan • Full professor at a Japanese university • Taught speaking, listening, reading, writing, debate, literature, international business, exam preparation, presentations, culture, education and tourism • Other teaching included children, high school and language school

This is my business history: • Owned and managed a language school chain in Japan for 13 years • Owned and managed an online translation and editing business for 15 years • Freelance English editor for over 30 years • Freelance Japanese to English translator for over 10 years