Matthew Devereux

職業: English language teacher
Education, English Language Instruction
I have been working part time for Native Camp in 2022 teaching people right across Japan in cities such as Tokyo, Saitama, Sapporo, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka.

English language teacher
English Language Instruction, Education
I have been working part time in 2022 teaching people who speak Spanish from the Dominican Republic for Erie Neighborhood House in the USA.

English language teacher
Education, English Language Instruction
I have been teaching people this year who speak Spanish (from a Mexican background) for Manos de Cristo in the USA.

Teaching Assistant
Education
I have worked as a Teaching Assistant at three primary schools and a National Autistic Society school working mostly with children in year two (aged seven) and year four (aged nine). This involves all aspects of the curriculum.

興趣: In my spare time I am learning Japanese, French, German and Portuguese. Out of all of these I am probably best in French and Japanese (the former since I did it at school and the latter since I lived in Japan for one year). My German and Portuguese are not so good. So I understand a lot about the process of learning languages and the way in which it is a bit like a rollercoaster ride - you seem to be making a lot of progress one day and then suddenly you find yourself met with a level of complexity that is difficult again the next. I understand the discipline and dedication it takes to learn foreign languages and to try to express yourself in a tongue other than your native or mother tongue.
I am interested in a lot of different things including history (ancient and modern - particularly modern totatlitarian regimes, the Romans, the Second World War and the English Civil War); space exploration and the discovery of new planets and stars and galaxies; fish (I have two pet fish, Isosceles and Triangle); films and TV; reading online newspapers about world news; football, cricket and tennis; parallel universe theory; philosophy and theology; international relations; music of all sorts of different kinds, from pop to classical, drum n bass to hip hop, indie to emo, punk to ambient and house to hard house. In football, I support Crystal Palace, Woking, Oxford United and Avispa Fukuoka.

學歷: Japanese scholarship
Education
I studied Japanese for one year at Daiichi Keizai University in Fukuoka and passed level 2 of the International Japanese Proficiency Test at the end of that year

Modern History BA (2:1), Oxford University
Education
I studied Modern History for three years at St.Anne's college, Oxford University, and gained a 2:1 mark in the finals paper at the end of that three year period.

語言: 英文 (母語者), 日文 (會話), 法文 (會話), 德文 (基本), 葡萄牙文 (基本)

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