What are people saying about our language mentoring programme?

Why take our word for the effectiveness of language mentoring? We asked three participants in our language mentoring programme to share what they thought.

Participant 1

I really enjoyed working with Esther as my language mentor. I found her easy to get to know and I felt comfortable with her to share the ups and downs of language learning. She was great at listening, and good at supporting on this journey. 

I found all the sessions helpful at exploring different aspects of language learning that I hadn’t necessarily thought about before. 

It was great to have someone to talk to, share the wins, and listen to the frustrations, who understood language learning but wasn’t my teacher. 

I would highly recommend this course, because it helped me feel more in control of my language learning and therefore use my learning time more effectively and enjoy it more.

Participant 2

Firstly I want to say thank you to Tim! 

It was really helpful and engaging to be able to go through some aspects of language learning. I was having language lessons but they did not include anything about how to learn the language. 

It was really helpful to look at this a bit more in a low pressure environment and also to engage with some of the emotions that have come up while learning a new language. 

I hope that you can continue to provide this service for others on their language learning journey.

Participant 3

For me, this is the second time I’ve embarked on a language learning journey and at the point I started receiving language coaching sessions, I was really struggling even though I had some experience of learning a language before.

I found my coaching sessions to be transformational and empowering. Transformational because many of my wrong patterns of thinking that I held about languages, the language learning process and even my own abilities were challenged and have been dismantled over time. I found the sessions to be empowering because it wasn’t about being told ‘this is the way to do X’ but rather the sessions were about exploring what worked well personally for me within my own language learning journey. 

I found that having the space to speak through my language learning challenges with a neutral party was invaluable. There was no pressure to make decisions in any specific direction and my coach was fantastic at always bringing me back to putting myself and my needs at the centre of my language learning journey. As a result I feel so much more empowered and hopeful about language learning.