Guten Tag, ich heiße Nicole Warner und ich liebe die deutsche Sprache!

People call me "German lady" for good reason: I am a German learner-turned-German instructor and this is my career. I lived in Germany from 2003-2008 and after I moved back to the US (I'm from and live in Wisconsin, but I did not grow up speaking German), I decided to keep up my German skills by teaching German at a local institute. In May of 2013 I started offering my own lessons, and that took off and has continued to evolve to what you see here before you today.

The sentence "Ich liebe die deutsche Sprache" isn't to be taken lightly. In German you only say you love the things you truly love, the things which really count, so when I say "Ich liebe die deutsche Sprache!", I really mean it.

Prior to teaching German, this is what I did:

• My Bachelor's degree is in music performance (voice). During college I took two German classes, which were a complete disaster. At the end of the class I knew approximately four words of German, which ended up being four darn expensive words. Then in 2002 I took 20 hours of private German lessons in Frankfurt am Main. These lessons were completely different, because my instructor taught me the foundations of German grammar as they relate to speaking the language, and I was hooked.
• In 2003 I finished my Master's degree in music and moved to Germany. I got a job at a small, private music school, and in addition I taught voice, piano, and music theory privately. That same year I also began teaching English as a Foreign Language at a private language school, where I also taught 5 corporate courses on General, Technical, and Conversational English (mainly to introverted, German engineers).
• In 2005 I spent a month in Hamburg on an intensive course and earned a CELTA certification to teach English as a Foreign Language to Adults. The University of Cambridge accredits this program and it really opened my eyes to a new world. I also received a grade of "Pass B," which only 12% of their participants receive.

Back in the US, I moved into teaching German:

• In 2010 I began teaching German at a small, private institute and quickly became a main teacher there. It was the perfect opportunity to transfer my English teaching skills to German.
• 2013 (May): I started teaching private lessons on my own with one student over Skype.
• 2015: My private lessons had grown into a real venture.
• 2018: I became certified to teach German as a Foreign Language to Adults by the Goethe-Institut.
• 2018: I took the C2 test, which is the hardest German test you can take, and my average score on the 4 modules was 84%.

Und jetzt? ~ And now?

It's 2025 and there are 3 small group classes, a half-dozen private lessons each week, tutoring sessions, and the video lessons are growing. I've still got good quality German clothes in my closet, German pens and pencils on my desk, I drive a German car, I use German silverware, and I've even got a gorgeous German typewriter. And in my "spare time" I am learning Old German Script, Kurrent. Warum nicht?

Important stats:

6560 teaching hours

Hier gibt es nur eine Katze.

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