CREDENTIALS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Teaching General English, General French and Business English since 2007, 2009 and 2017 respectively
  
  

• Speaking fluent English and French, advanced Spanish, intermediate Italian, Portuguese and Czech - this means I have tested numerous language acquisition methods both
  as a teacher and a language learner.
  Polish is my native language.
  
  

• Lived 9 years in Canada, 1 year in France and 3 months
  in Finland, currently based in Poland
  
  

• Teaching English for Psychotherapists since 2017 to help professional therapists use English specifically in their work environment
  
  

• Wrote my own ebook about overcoming difficulties
  in communicating in English
  
  

• Have written several articles about teaching and learning languages in French and Polish for Le Répertoire du FLE (http://repertoirefle.blogspot.com/p/irena-kolbuszewska.html) and the platform lingroom.pl

DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES

English:

• 2008 
  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
  Bachelor of Arts in Pedagogy - Early Childhood Education
  and Teaching English to Young Learners
  
  

• 2004 
  Cambridge ESOL
  Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)
  
  
  French and Spanish:
  
  

• 2019
  CAVILAM - Alliance Française de Vichy
  Certificate "Enseigner le français langue étrangère aujourd'hui - Parcours avancé"
  
  

• 2000
  York University, Toronto, Canada
  Bachelor of Arts in French and Hispanic Studies