Hi everyone
I’m Mark and I come from Australia 
, but I now live in the UK 
. I live in the beautiful seaside city of Brighton. I grew up in Melbourne and visited London in 1996 for a holiday. I never went home!
I’ve been trying to learn languages for a long time. I started learning German 13 years ago, and Spanish 10 years ago but didn’t learn very much until I started using Chatterbug.
I loved Chatterburg 
so much that I decided to be a tutor 
, to help other people on their language learning journey. I love being able to chat with people all over the world 
.
In my life I have travelled a lot of the world 
, and everywhere I travelled I would spend months learning the language before I went.
I spent three months learning Spanish before travelling to Colombia in 2009 
, and I kept going by learning a little bit of Greek 
, French 
, Bulgarian 
, Khmer 
, and I even learnt Bahasa Indonesia 
when I was at school.
I am a teacher in a school, and teach Digital Media 
, Science 
and also Business Studies 
. I am a senior manager, so I also manage our Careers Programme, our 6th form (in the UK that’s the older students aged 16-19), and all the IT systems 
.
I love bike riding 
, and there is lots of beautiful countryside near Brighton where I can spend hours with my friends riding (and drinking coffee 
)
I love music 
, and learning a language has been a great way to find out about music from around the world. I love finding out about the newest bands and Brighton is a great city for seeing “The Next Big Thing” in a small venue.
I completely love learning languages 
and I understand the stress and difficulties of trying to learn a new language, particularly having the confidence to speak. The Chatterbug 
live lessons are a great place to build confidence speaking and being able to make mistakes and get better and better each time. I know how hard it is to go from learning some grammar and vocabulary to being able to speak, so the lessons with me are always supportive and a safe place to learn at your own speed.
I have been teaching for over 20 years, so hopefully I know what I’m doing!
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.Thanks. It’s great to be here. Can’t wait to start working with all those Chatterbugs wanting to learn English out there