Find your
English voice.
A native every week, an app for the days between.The next best thing to living abroad.
Hi! I'm Andrew. Originally from Sydney, I'm now settled in Poznań with my half-Polish son. Before I started teaching I spent over a decade in corporate roles, and I've taught English since 2019.
- Your English is enough to start
- Everyday or business English
- Online, or in person in Poznań
Speaking stops being stressful.
Plenty of my students arrive understanding far more than they can say. They know the words, but the moment it's their turn to speak, they freeze, certain it'll come out wrong. If that's you, you're in exactly the right place - a big part of my job is getting you through that stage. You each have a different life, world and experience. The sharing both ways is what I really enjoy most.
Maybe you have only a little English, and want somewhere safe to use it. Maybe you had more once, and it's been sitting unused since school. Or maybe you speak well already, and want to go from 'I get by' to genuinely fluent. Wherever you start, the goal is the same: English you can actually use, and the nerve to use it when it counts - talking to someone you have just met, sorting something out on the phone, and yes, in a meeting or an interview too.
Poznań is home now, not a stopover. I spent over a decade in corporate roles - Product Manager at Citi, Business Analyst on global system rollouts, and client-facing roles across telco, media, and tech. So the English I teach isn't classroom theory. It's the English people actually use - ordering, explaining, disagreeing, making small talk with someone you have just met - and, when you need it, the English of a meeting, a negotiation, or a market you're selling into.
Every student also gets the app - your words from each lesson, and the practice built out of them. I built it with my students in mind, and with what I'd want to help me learn Polish. There is more on it further down.
Current students include the head of a regional government and the CEO of an internet company. The rest work in:
Sharpen your English, however you use it.
Conversational English
Stop translating in your head - speak naturally, in the moment.
Business English
Hold meetings, write emails, and present ideas - including disagreeing, pushing back, and closing a point.
Writing & Exam Practice
Writing that says exactly what you meant, plus practice on your own exam material when you need it.
Grammar & Accuracy
Say exactly what you mean - so nobody has to fill in the gaps.
Accent & Clarity
Be understood the first time, every time.
Vocabulary & Range
Find the right word, not just a word - and make it stick.
More English, and somewhere to use it.
Years of grammar, gap-fills and tests, and then the moment it matters, the words won't come. It isn't just you: across Europe three quarters of adults aged 25 to 64 know a foreign language, and barely a quarter feel they're any good at it. Eurostat, 2022
And yes, it's nerves - and it's rarely one thing. You can't think of the word. You're embarrassed. You're afraid of getting it wrong. It's the most common thing I hear, and it makes no difference whether you're speaking with a foreigner or with another Pole - though with your own there's face to lose as well. But nerves aren't a character flaw you have to get over. It's a loop: the more anxious you are about how you sound, the less you speak, and the less you speak the worse it gets. That isn't a fault in you. It's what happens when nobody ever gave you anywhere to practise.
Then, when you do speak, most of what you get wrong nobody can correct at the time. Stop you every time and the conversation dies, and you can't watch your own grammar while thinking of what to say next. So the slips go out unchallenged - and using your English more only helps if someone catches them.
What I built
So I built a system for the part a lesson structurally can't do. Words go onto your flashcards while we talk, and you add your own. Then the lesson itself turns into practice: it appears in the app afterwards, with the moments you could have said better, a cleaner version of each, and why. Your sentences, not a textbook's.
Not a topic I picked. Not textbook sentences. Yours. I catch a great deal while we talk, but nobody can catch everything in real time. After the lesson the system goes back over everything you said and pulls out what I missed.
The days in between
Then through the week you work through the corrections on your own, with nobody listening. Say it out loud, then say it again, and again, until it stops feeling strange. Understanding a correction once changes nothing. It changes when you've said the right version so many times that it's the one that comes out. And if the same slip is still there next lesson, it'll be waiting for you in the week after that.
The lesson itself stays in English, which is the whole point of learning with a native. But when you get stuck, the app has the Polish: every card carries the translation, and you can type any Polish word or sentence in and get the English back. A lower level isn't a reason to avoid a native speaker. You get the immersion, and the Polish is there when you need it.
The hour is where you learn it. The days in between are where you say it enough times that it sticks. More lessons a week will get you there faster, and how much you do between them is up to you.
Most tutors recommend an app. I wrote yours.
The material in it comes from you - the words from your lessons, the corrections that came out of them, and the things you chose to read. It's built narrow on purpose: one purpose, your English between one lesson and the next, done properly instead of a hundred features done loosely. And when part of it doesn't fit the way you learn, I change it.
After the lesson
Every correction from the lesson turns into practice - your sentence, the cleaner version, why it's better, and you can hear it. They come grouped by type - grammar, word choice, the way a sentence is put together - so you practise the pattern, not the single slip.
Words from your lessons
Each one with the Polish and how to say it.
A translator, built in
Type Polish, get English. Tap a word to save it as a flashcard.
Whatever you're already reading
Your PDF, your contract, any web page - opened in the app.
Your last eight weeks
How consistent you've been, at a glance.
A reminder, if you want one
A note when your practice is ready, and an evening nudge. Turn any of them off in your profile.
Beyond your lessons
Ready-made word lists - business, phrasal verbs, idioms - when your lessons are not giving you enough.
More than an hour a week.
A lesson here isn't an hour of talk and then silence until next week. It's a native speaker as many times a week as your plan allows.
The base rate is 200 PLN for a 60-minute one-to-one lesson on a weekday. Evenings add 100 PLN a lesson, weekends 200, and groups of two each pay 60%. More lessons a week does not just buy more hours. Each lesson is where the material comes from - your corrections, your words - so a second one gives you twice as much of your own English to work through in between. Use the calculator to see what your plan works out at.
Cancel or move any lesson with 24 hours' notice - no questions asked.
Why it works this way.
- 01Native Australian speaker, 7+ years teaching Poles - so I know the mistakes Polish speakers make before they make them.
- 02I make you aware of your slips and coach you towards eliminating them.
- 03Over a decade of corporate background - finance, telco, media, tech.
- 04No two students get the same hour - or the same practice afterwards.
- 05A clear Australian accent, not a broad regional one - and without the slang, unless that's what you want.
- 06I ask about your work, your life, the things you'd talk about anyway. It's easier to speak when you already know the subject.
Answers to what people ask me.
My English isn't strong. Won't a native speaker be too much?
It is the most common worry I hear, and it is the wrong way round. You don't need good English to start with me, you need some English to build on, and the lesson is where it gets used. When you get stuck, the app has the Polish: every flashcard carries the translation, and you can type Polish straight in and get the English back. So you get a full hour of real English without ever being stranded in it.
How does the free call work?
A 30-minute intro call at no cost - we discuss your goals, you get a feel for my approach, and you decide if it's a fit. No obligation. Want to try a full lesson first? A 60-minute trial lesson is 100 PLN, half the regular rate.
Online or in-person?
Both. Online lessons run on Google Meet, so anywhere you have decent internet. For in-person we meet at my place, or somewhere near me that suits you - a café is fine. The time I spend getting there counts as part of the hour. If you'd rather I came out to you, there's a surcharge for the distance.
What levels do you teach?
Almost any, as long as you've got some English to build on, right through to advanced professionals fine-tuning the details. Adults, teens, individuals and small groups.
Do you teach Business English?
Yes - a specialty. Meetings, emails, presentations, industry-specific vocabulary. Clients include CEOs, lawyers, auditors, doctors, IT specialists.
Do you issue business invoices?
Yes - invoices are available.
What do students get outside of lessons?
A personal app, free with every lesson and on any device: flashcards from our lessons, ready-made word lists, reading practice, lesson supplements, and a built-in translator. Try the demo - no sign-up needed →
How much work is there between lessons?
That's up to you, and more is genuinely better. After each lesson your corrections turn into practice, so there's always something specific waiting rather than generic homework. What matters most is regularity: students who do something on the days between move noticeably faster than students who only turn up on the day.