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Two mother tongues, one classroom.
A graduate philologist teaching Greek to Serbian speakers and Serbian to Greek speakers — from Greece, where one of those languages is spoken around me every day.
Who you'll be learning with.
I graduated in Greek language and literature from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, and I have been teaching languages for ten years.
Serbian is my mother tongue. After sixteen years of living in Greece, Greek has become my second one. I spent the academic year 2007–2008 at the University of Ioannina on a Greek state scholarship, studying Greek language and culture, and hold the Ελληνομάθεια Γ' and Δ' certificates. My Belgrade degree is officially recognised in Greece by Δ.Ο.Α.Τ.Α.Π., and I trained separately in teaching Serbian as a foreign language at the Azbukum centre in Novi Sad.
Living here gives me something no textbook fully can: daily contact with living, modern Greek — its expressions, its culture, and the way the language is genuinely used. That is exactly what I want to pass on to my students.
It also means I teach both directions from the inside. I know which Serbian sounds trip up Greek speakers, and which Greek constructions have no clean equivalent in Serbian — because I have had to learn both of those the hard way myself.
Where the teaching comes from.
Degree in Greek language and literature — the formal grounding in grammar, syntax and linguistic structure that lets me explain why a rule works, not just that it does.
Official certification in Greek proficiency at advanced levels — which also means I know these exams from the inside when preparing students for them.
Adults, children, couples, professionals and exam candidates. Enough years to know that the same explanation does not land the same way for two different students.
Greek language and culture, 2007–2008, on a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. Graded «Άριστη» — excellent. A full academic year of Greek, in Greek, in Greece.
Δ.Ο.Α.Τ.Α.Π., the Greek body for recognising foreign qualifications, has formally recognised the Belgrade diploma as equivalent to a Greek university degree.
A teacher-training seminar at Azbukum, the Centre for Serbian Language and Culture in Novi Sad. Speaking a language natively and knowing how to teach it to someone else are separate skills; this one is the second.
Daily contact with the language as it is actually spoken — the expressions, the shortcuts, the register shifts that textbooks are always a decade behind on.
The documents behind all that.
Because “qualified” is a word anyone can put on a website. Six documents, in two countries, over fifteen years.
The language isn't only in the lessons.
It's at the taverna table, at the fish market, in the neighbours' arguments, on the radio in a taxi. Living in Greece means I hear modern Greek the way it is actually spoken — not the version that was current when some textbook went to print.
A language isn't learned from a book alone.
It's learned by understanding it, using it, and living it.
No fixed curriculum
There is no one programme that suits everyone.
Your needs, goals and level set the plan — not a chapter order written for someone else.
Understanding over memorising
Grammar explained through examples you'll actually meet.
Rules you understand stay. Rules you memorise leave the week after the test.
Between the lessons
Homework, then a full review of it next time.
We clear up whatever wasn't clear and connect new material to what we already covered.
The tone of a lesson
Serious when it matters. Relaxed when it can be.
Neither dry nor chaotic. Exam preparation is intensive; the rest has room to breathe.
What people want to know before booking me.
Are you a native speaker of both languages?
Serbian is my mother tongue. Greek is not, in the technical sense — it became my second language after sixteen years of living here, alongside a degree in Greek language and literature and the Ελληνομάθεια Γ' and Δ' certificates.
For teaching, that combination is arguably better than being born into it: I learned Greek as an adult, which means I remember which parts are hard and why.
Are you a qualified teacher or a native speaker offering lessons?
Qualified, in both directions. A degree in Greek language and literature from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, ten years of teaching, and separate training at Azbukum in teaching Serbian as a foreign language. The distinction matters more than it sounds: speaking a language and being able to explain why it behaves the way it does are separate skills.
Who do you usually teach?
Adults, mostly. A large share are learning for a partner or a partner's family. After that come professionals, exam candidates, and children from bilingual families — from around age seven.
Do you teach groups?
One-to-one is what I do, because the whole method rests on adapting to one person's level and goals. Two people at genuinely the same level and with the same reason for learning can work — ask me and we will see honestly whether it fits.
What is your teaching actually like?
Conversational rather than lecture-shaped, structured rather than improvised. Homework after every lesson and a full review at the start of the next one. Serious when there is an exam; relaxed when there is not.
Let's find out where you're starting from.
A free trial lesson, online. We work out your level, talk through what you want from the language, and you leave knowing whether this is a fit.