A Man of His Words - (Spanish, Swedish, Song lyrics, Singing onstage)

Methodology

BA Bowdoin College (Economics and Music)
MBA Johnson School of Business and Public Administration (Marketing) - Cornell University
Spanish language fluency - Stanford University
Swedish language fluency, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Musical performance, arranging, recording: Studio Blue, Stockholm
Website production: (concealed information)

Background

I have lived for 7 years in Latin America and visited most countries from Mexico to Argentina.
I lived for 28 years in Sweden. I am not only multilingual, but multicultural. My lessons are primarily conversational, involving role-playing, music, story telling, geography, culinary arts, head math and a lot of humor.

I have taught in kindergarten thru college situations, homeschooled kids and adults.
I've been teaching since 1985 (in Sweden), and in Maine since moving here in 2000. I have had hundreds of students of all ages...who have received a valuable exposure to foreign languages and cultures from a person who has been there and done that.

Rates

Rate for a 1-hour lesson. : $45/h

Lessons offered by Roger

Individual

The lessons will be held

at his home

at your home

Taught subjects

Spanish
Swedish

Levels

Elementary School
Middle School
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
College
Adult Education
Other
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

Roger's resume

R H: - Spanish Teaching / Coaching

Ran the Spanish program at Coastal Studies for Girls, Freeport, Maine in 2014.
Spanish grades K-8 at the Center for Teaching & Learning, Edgecomb, Maine in 2012.

I ran after school Spanish Teams at Hall Elementary School. Portland, 2006 – 2014.
Substitute Spanish teacher for many Portland and Westbrook Schools, k-12, 2000 – 08.

Taught after school Spanish for grades 1 – 5 at Breakwater School in Portland in 2013.
Homeschooled several Portland and Cape Elizabeth groups from 2008 to 2012.

As a Spanish speaker, I was a teacher, choral leader and coached basketball in Colombia at EAFIT in Medellin, where I taught college economics to Colombian undergraduates and founded a business library (Peace Corps 1968 - 1972).

Music in Spanish
I produced tours in Europe and Latin America with major performers from Sweden, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Argentina and Nicaragua and I directed two music groups specializing in Latin music, resulting in albums, festivals, documentaries, and TV shows.

Film Work
I have translated over 250 movies, TV shows and private films from Swedish and Spanish into English for a variety of film producers, mostly for subtitles.

More Spoken and Written Spanish
At EAFIT (Escuela de Administracion y Finanzas) in Medellin, Colombia , I helped found a business research center, conducting scores of academic and market surveys in Spanish. Our goal was to find domestic companies with the capacity and know-how to replace imported goods with Colombian-made products, thusly improving Colombia’s balance of payments. I conducted surveys and published articles in business and research journals in Spanish.

Spanish Language Study
I completed a 6 week total immersion program (Peace Corps: eight-hour days) at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. It included courses in Latin American history, culture and geography - in preparation for Peace Corps.
I have been fluent in Spanish since 1968, living and teaching for 4 years in Medellin, Colombia. And I have traveled extensively in Central and South America, in the Caribbean in Spain and most of Europe..

Education:
AB Economics/Music - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 1966
MBA Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business and Public Administration,
Ithaca, NY 1968