Coaching with David
PERSONAL COACHING TO IMPROVE YOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
Hands down one of the best ways to improve your language skills, personal coaching offers you the opportunity to ask all your questions in real time, get in some practice time with a proficient speaker, and get guidance on language learning. Specific tutoring available in French, Spanish, beginning Italian and beginning German. Sessions are held via video conferencing services such as Zoom and last 40 minutes. Wherever you are on the planet, if you have internet, you’re a candidate!
Having studied seven foreign languages, David is well versed in every aspect of learning a language. He is also well aware that not everyone learns in the same way, and having taught in many different contexts, he knows how to adapt his coaching and tutoring to the learning style of the learner.
Learning a language, however, is just the beginning! It is a doorway to other cultures, other ways of seeing the world. David provides a bridge between the two, offering coaching for groups and individuals in cross-cultural dynamics and cultural preparedness.
““My regular coaching sessions with David provided the rare but necessary combination of an excellent speaker, a gifted teacher, and an encouraging colleague. Those sessions were a huge step forward towards my current situation of working daily in French. “
- Dr. Eric McLaughlin, Burundi”
““I have studied French with Mr. Durham for almost four years now. Additionally, I spent a year discovering other cultures in his global studies class at my tutorial. I can confidently say Mr. Durham’s teaching has changed me and the way I see the world. Not only has he opened my eyes to the magnificence of other peoples and languages, he has also inspired me to get out there, make mistakes, learn, and continue to grow my understanding of God’s wonderful world the rest of my life.”
- Jael, high school senior”
““‘Cultural Intelligence’ at first sounds like some gushy nicety. It’s not. Today it is the currency of individuals or endeavors who will thrive in a connected world. Those who possess it will get richer. Those who lack it will become benign or perhaps even dangerous. Dave, my friend for decades, is prosperous in it. He is a genteel maven, patient teacher, un-stuffy connoisseur, and multi-lingual freak show. “
- Scott Parker, Music Business Executive”
““David has such a heart to honor and care for people, which makes him brilliant at helping us understand language and culture. After all, learning the words of another language is an invitation to new friendships within the culture where those words are formed. Understanding language and culture is a relational journey. David has become a close friend who’s opened the door to many new global friendships in my life, and I’m forever changed as a result.”
- Brett Mabury, international mentor to creatives and professional orchestrator”