I am a soon-to-be 34 year old Englishman, now living in Australia with my ‘new’ family. I have submitted my PhD and am fiddling around with it a bit prior to its final submission and turning it into a book. In the course of the postgraduate aspects of this journey, I have had to master the grammar of ancient Latin and Greek, as all my original material is in those languages. In learning this, I have come to learn far more about English than I did by simply attending school and I now have a very good grasp of how our language developed as it did.
Etymology has become one of my favourite hobbies and it’s something that I simply cannot turn off, as much as I would like to sometimes ?????. I can’t look at a single piece of writing without critiquing it’s grammar, syntax and punctuation: it’s quite irritating. But hey, this is the mind that you will have at your disposal when attending my lessons, it’s certainly beneficial for an English student to have me at the helm.
Having attended university for over a decade, I have a good idea of the various teaching methods employed by teachers and so I have gauged what are and what are not good things in the learning environment. This translates to me wanting to make you as comfortable as you can possibly be, with everything transparent and honest. On top of this, all the resources that I use for my lessons are derived from material created by Oxford and Cambridge universities, so you can be sure that it’s all as properly English as it gets.