KEY Teachers Short Biography (one)

Andes Kurnia, SS.

Is an English teacher who has a lot of experiences in teaching English. He finished his bachelor degree in the University of Nasional in 2007. Focusing on the faculty of Letters, English department, makes him have a lot of insights to support his teaching methods. He has also ever joined some teaching trainings.

Andes Kurnia started teaching English after he graduated in 2007. He, at first, became a teacher at one of big institutions in Indonesia: International Language Program (ILP), in Pasar Baru. He taught there for about 2 years. When he became an English teacher in ILP Pasar Baru, he was a favorite teacher who was liked by a lot of students. However, a far distance makes him move to a nearer outlet of ILP. He moved to ILP Kalimalang, and still teaches in ILP Kalimalang until now.

Moreoever, Andes Kurnia also teaches English as after school program in Al-Azhar Syifa Budi, Jati Bening, for Elementary and Junior High School students. He has been also teaching English in the University of Mercu Buana, Kranggan, Bekasi for 1 (one) year.

Andes Kurnia feels that English is very important to be taught privately to the students. Because, he thinks that every person has got different characters. There are some people who are (maybe) very confident in a big class, so they can join English courses to study English. But, There are also many more students who have shy characters. These people feel shy because of some reasons: age, the ability of comprehension, etc. So, these reasons make them lose of hope to be able to master English. 

Based on the consideration above, he decided to share his English knowledge to the students, and he chose to offer the students to study English privately. Besides that, another benefit of studying English privately is that he likes motivating the students so they can always have big excitement to study English. 

Finally, for the readers who want to study English privately and excitedly, you can contact him. Or, Andes Kurnia also welcomes the readers who only want to consult everything about English.

Andes Kurnia, SS (0821-146-313-50) / Blackberry PIN (24CF9BF1)

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English Is Easy, Isn't It?

While I was teaching in the University of Mercu Buana, Kranggan, Bekasi, a lot of my college students asked me, "Sir, how can I improve our English easily?". The question sounds familiar. Why? Because, yes, there are a lot of people who have big motivation to study English, but they don't know the right way to make it become easy.

I smiled at them, of couse, because I like when people ask me about the right ways to improve English skills. To me, having big motivation isn't enough to be good at English. It's like you have a dream but you never know an appropriate strategy to achieve it.

Well, here, I have only one sentence to answer the question: "Love English". Yes, guys, you must love English first if you want to be good at English soon. Wise people have ever said, "Someone who loves something will do everything to be able to master it". For instance, if you love music, and you're eager to be good at playing guitar, of course, automathically all your desires encourage you to live by practicing guitar. You will buy a guitar, you will go to a music course place, you will buy books about guitar. Even, when you're sleeping, you will dream you're a guitar master.

So, what about English? 

It's not far different! If you love English, you will do everything to achieve it. Let me direct you to the right ways to be able to improve your English. First of all, you must buy a guidance book (Grammar book), then you can study autodidactly, when you get difficulties in comprehending a theory, you can go to your English teachers, and don't ever feel shy to ask them about your problem. Secondly, use your hobbies to support your English. For instance, you like watching movies, so watch a lot of movies with English speaking and subtitles, and then if you find new vocabularies, you can remember them. It is also good to practice the actors's English accents an expressions in the movies. Or, if you like listening to music, you can listen to English songs--it's better to take from your favorite singers or bands' songs--and then you can note their lyrics, and get new vocabularies, new expressions.

Finally, I hope this short writing can give you a bit enlightenment about how easy English is!

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