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Josh
Professional Teacher
Teaches
English
Native
Speaks
Korean
Top 1% English Teacher on Italki with more than 14 years experience teaching adults and children.
Teaches
English
Native
Speaks
Korean
Top 1% English Teacher on Italki with more than 14 years experience teaching adults and children.
From United StatesLiving in Chicago, United States (23:27 UTC-06:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Aug 7, 2017Interest topicHistoryTravelReading
Hello my name is Josh I am from Chicago USA and I am very passionate about helping you learn English. After graduating university in 2008, and obtaining a Tesol certification I went to Seoul South Korea and worked as an English teacher there for 7 years. It was an amazing experience and I am very grateful that I took the opportunity to learn Korean while I lived there. In addition to being an English teacher I am also a successful entrepreneur. I started my own online company selling electric bikes and other rideables in 2016 and grew that business and then sold that company in 2019. My hobbies include fishing, yoga, taekwondo,cooking and travel.Me as a Teacher
I have been teaching English for more than 14 years. For the first 7 years I taught in Seoul Korea teaching elementary, middle school, adults, and business English students. For the past 6 years I have been teaching online. I have a lot of experience teaching all ages and levels including children as young as 4 years old to business executives. I also have a lot of experience with IELTS test preparation, USMLE test preparation, business email correction and feedback, business power point presentation correction and feedback, job interview preparation. etc.My lessons & teaching style
For my children's classes I focus on the target language from the Everybody up series or the Lets Go series by Oxford. I use a lot of songs from youtube, and other worksheets,powerpoint slides etc to reinforce the target language from the lesson of the day.
For advanced child students we often read an article, go over any vocab they do not know and then have a discussion about it.
For adults I personalize the lessons according to their needs and goals: conversation, test preparation(IELTS, USMLE), job interview preparation etc. Lately I have been teaching classes based on the tv show Modern Family. It is a big hit with my adult students since we are learning so many new idioms and vocab.My teaching material
- PDF file
- Text Documents
- Image files
- Articles and news
- Quizzes
- Homework Assignments
- Presentation slides/PPT
- Test templates and examples
Work Experience
2008 - 2010
Native English Teacher Soongsil Middle School
2011 - 2013
Native English teacher Hansung Middle school
2012 - 2013
Business English teacher Tesco Homeplus
2011 - 2013
Native English teacher Hansung Middle School
2013 - 2014
Native English Teacher Guam Elementary School
2015 - 2018
Online English Teacher Talksclub
2016 - 2017
Online English Business Teacher talknjoy
2017 - 2019
Business and Conversational English teacher Pagoda Talk Kool EnglishI teach many professionals who work for large companies like Samsung and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic staff.
Education
2003 - 2007
Bachelor's - Theology
Certificates
How to Teach IELTS Cambridge English 2018
Certificate uploaded
SIT TESOL SIT 2008130 hour in classroom TESOL certificate I got at Depaul University.
Certificate uploaded
5.0
Rating
596
Students
9,015
Lessons
100%
Attendance
100%
Response
English Lessons
Trial Lesson
356 lessons completed
USD 11.00+
English Conversation
A1 - C2Conversation Practice2,061 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Package with 7% off
Job Interview Preparation
A1 - C2General125 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Package with 7% off
IELTS Speaking Test Preparation
A1 - C2Test Preparation117 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Package with 7% off
Children's Lessons
A1 - C2Kids4,110 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Package with 7% off
Children's lessons (20 lesson package deal)
A1 - C2Kids2,161 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Package with 7% off
Teacher Lessons
A1 - B2General1 lessons completed
USD 20.00+
Package with 10% off
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
495 Reviews
Maria
5 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
Thank you Josh! You are a very good teacher and you helped me a lot! ;)
Aug 22, 2017
Ulyana Kalashnikova
3 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
It was a perfect lesson. Josh is really supportive and professional teacher. We practised IELTS speaking test and it was a really productive session. Thank you, Josh!
Aug 21, 2017
Patrick.Menengaz
16 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
Josh is an amazing teacher that understands the IELTS test very deeply and can help anyone to get whatever score they need, even the 9 out of 9. He can point out your mistakes quickly and give you hints about how to improve your English. He is deeply commited to the help you to achieve your goals and is really easy to speak to.
Highly recommended!
Aug 20, 2017
Siwan Yang
8 English lessons
He's the best teacher!!!!!
Nov 7, 2023
Siwan Yang
8 English lessons
He's the best teacher ever!
Oct 27, 2023
Martin
40 English lessons
棒
Oct 13, 2023
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