About Alex
The teacher behind the promise.
The American way.
Americans don't focus on perfect. We focus on the goal. Perfect English is a lifetime project. Getting understood in the room, on the call, in the exam hall, that's a plan with a date on it. That's what we build.
Every lesson is made from scratch for one student. No textbook, no class of twenty, no translation. You speak from minute one, you get it wrong, you get it better, and you leave able to do the thing you came to do.
Nine years, students on every continent, one rule.
Alex is a CELTA certified American English teacher and pronunciation specialist, born and raised in Boise, Idaho. He studied Psychology at Boise State University and went on to master's work in Instructional Design, which turns out to be most of teaching: knowing why a person freezes before they speak, how to build the lesson that gets them talking, and how to tell if it worked.
He started in resort management in Hawaii, training international staff whose English had to work by the next shift, not by the end of the semester. Then came Vietnam, where he earned the CELTA and the Cambridge methodology behind every lesson here, and classrooms in Taiwan, Portugal and Hong Kong. Now it's one to one lessons online for students around the globe, most of them professionals with a meeting on the calendar.
Not interested in perfect English. Interested in you getting where you're going. Every lesson is built from scratch for one student. You'll never hear "wrong". You'll hear "you can do it better", and then you will.
Book a free goal call Message AlexThe road so far.
- Boise, IdahoBorn and raised in the American West: direct talk, hard work, no fuss. It's still how the lessons run.
- Boise State University, PsychologyLearned how people learn, what blocks them, and what gets them unstuck.
- Master's work, Instructional DesignHow to build a lesson that does one job well, and how to prove it worked.
- Hawaii resortsResort management and international staff trainer. Real guests, real pressure, English that had to work by tomorrow.
- Vietnam, CELTAThe Cambridge method: student centered, built for one learner, no translation. It's the backbone of every lesson here.
- Taiwan, Portugal, Hong KongClassrooms on three continents, kids and adults, every level. Learned to make a room full of reluctant students want to stay.
- Online, around the globeProfessionals, test takers and kids across Asia, the Middle East and Europe. One to one, one goal, one plan.
How a lesson with Alex feels.
You talk first.
From minute one. The lesson is built around what comes out of your mouth, not a page in a book.
Sounds, not just words.
Linking, stress and rhythm, the stuff that makes Americans understand you the first time.
Your calendar is the syllabus.
The meeting on Monday, the exam in June, the parent teacher night. That's what we prep for.
Off the clock.
Because a teacher is a person first, and the best lessons come from real life.
