About Me

My name is Alex Voloza. I was born in Ukraine in 1986 in a Russian-speaking family. When I was 12, I got to work with a private English-language tutor who sparkled my interest in languages and that changed my life forever.

As a teenager, I won several all-Ukrainian English language contests. I got an MA degree in Translation/Interpreting (German/English/Ukrainian) from Kiev National University and then another MA degree in Languages from Mainz University (1,2 average).

I have been trying to learn other languages by myself but never really committed. At 25, I set out a goal to achieve a C1 level across 10 languages and I have been working towards it ever since. I speak Russian, German, English, Ukrainian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Hebrew. I got a German C2 Goethe Certificate in 2008, a Spanish SIELE C1 Certificate in June 2018 and a Polish State C1 Certificate in May 2019.

I travel full-time, all the while teaching and mentoring online. I have visited 88 countries at the moment of writing and am planning to reach 100 by 2020. I climbed Kilimanjaro in December 2016 and it showed me yet again that we can do a lot more than what we think we are capable of.

Beside reaching my personal goals I want to concentrate even more on helping others. The more I teach and mentor, the more I am convinced that anyone can succeed in language learning and have fun learning languages regardless of age and experience. Speaking 4-5 languages fluently is a decent and achievable goal for all of us and the rewards are life-changing. I would like to touch more lives with my experience as a teacher and mentor and contribute to making this world a little more multilingual and happier place.