Dhruva Shubhankar Verma (Duncan Lievi)

My approach is compassionate, affectionate, disciplined, and simple. I have been teaching online for more than 3 years as an online English expression coach. I taught myself the American accent in 2013, initially to sound correct while singing rock songs in English. I use the voice to assist students in intonation, pronunciation, stress, expression, posture, accent reduction -- all that in addition to the various other elements of English -- grammar, vocabulary, reading, sentence structure. I feel at home teaching online.

I am passionate about understanding the attitudes and instincts of my students. How you communicate should be unique to you - like writing a song using the same seven notes.

My main goal is to help you to communicate clearly, the way you want to communicate using the English language.

I ask many questions to identify areas of focus, based on which I provide lots and lots of examples, using specific stresses of tone that are more likely to be memorable or striking, which aids retention.

Phonemics is an area of specialty. Mistakes in pronunciation, flow, quick speech, etc, will be tended to immediately. Those interested in music can also look forward to music-assisted understanding of sounds, and also where these sounds emanate from.

Constant motivation is my promise, without losing sight of practical goals and various methods to get there.

Your health (mental, physical, emotional) is at the core of your progress. I am invested into the progress of the student, encouraging that they build a sold foundation and look forward to the lessons, and are feeling comfortable to ask any and all questions.