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Hello everyone, I received a request to tutor an experienced naval engineer, who has been sailing on tankers and cruisers for years and managed to get by with his English. He'd love to improve his professional English in order to increase the chances for a job overseas. I'm not sure where to start w...

I'm tutoring him tomorrow so I'll talk to him mum about it. Also, I need to check what he's like in his Croatian class, he might even be dyslexic.

Hi Sally, thanks for your reply. The country is Croatia. Maybe I should point out that in Croatia (just like in the most of South-Eastern Europe) school curriculum, as well as homework, is pretty hard on kids. I had an opportunity to compare Croatian educational system with UK's and the difference i...

Hi everyone, I recently got an offer to tutor a 10-year old (ESL), mostly to help him out with keeping up with the school curriculum. It's their 4th year of learning English and they are currently on present continuous, learning more prepositions and possessives. But he doesn't even know what 'Who' ...