French for companies

Dear Nenah Iza! I thank you sincerely for everything you have given us. These are not only solid foundations in French, which my daughter Denise will certainly put to good use and which will serve me too, above all for reading French literature in the original. You also gave us a part of yourself, a warmth that is yours alone: with you, all of us in the group became richer. The two of us will miss you both. The finest word I have for what I feel is: thank you.

Her courses are professionally of a high standard, and the teacher always manages to establish a genuine relationship between teacher and students; she has an exceptional capacity for empathy and for motivating students (using all sorts of “tricks”, humour …), a unique approach and the ability to convey grammar and grammatical structures without being dry. She is one hundred per cent prepared for her lessons (structured and flexible delivery of the syllabus). She has a detailed knowledge of each individual's abilities and expectations. In this way she adapts the lessons to the participants on the course. She is very willing to adapt the programmes to the students and to accommodate any individual request without this affecting the group. She conveys the material in a very engaging and witty way. In her lessons she uses audio and video aids to the greatest possible extent, which contributed most to the students' progress (the camera above all). The material was backed by excellent support – in quality and in quantity. The role plays were at a very high level and were later analysed with the help of video recordings – the use of very advanced and modern approaches to presenting the material, which changed constantly. I attended French courses with Prof. Nenah Iza Zeilhofer (active courses together with six colleagues) for a good year and a half (around 550 hours in total) and I am grateful to her for the French I acquired, and equally for the pleasant and interesting hours we spent together.

With Prof. Nenah Iza Zeilhofer I studied the French language, namely in module 10 and the refresher module. In the course of my education in French I attended classes with nine different teachers. I would like to stress that what stayed with me above all from the teaching with Prof. Nenah Iza Zeilhofer was: the approach, the teaching methods, the systematic structure, the exceptional ability to connect with and animate the participants, an ear for what the students wanted, and her readiness to meet individual requests by preparing extra exercises for the areas we felt we wanted to work on more intensively. I would particularly like to single out the variety of resources and methods used, such as: simulating events in different situations and settings, enlivening the teaching with various games, competitive or purely for entertainment, the use of the camera, a microphone with a tape recorder, TV, VIDEO, an overhead projector with transparencies. Attending French courses with Prof. Nenah Iza Zeilhofer helped me personally to order and structure my knowledge of French in such a way that I can call it to mind incomparably more easily when it is needed.