My third tutee is Cyan Umbert Lopez. He currently lives in
Spain and works in the technology industry with a bachelor’s degree in
mechanical engineering. He already has a high level of proficiency with
English, but wants to continue studying it in order to do well on the TOEFL and
GMAT so he can attend business school in the US. Cyan is actually from
Barcelona, inside Catalonia. Because of this he speaks both Spanish and
Catalan. We did a short exercise going over some minimal pairs in English, and
I realized while going over pronunciation with him that Catalan actually has
many sounds in common with English that don’t exist in most dialects of
Spanish. He has few problems reading and listening to English due to consuming
plenty of English-language media, so in tutoring him we decided to focus mainly
on writing skills and a few pronunciation issues with speaking.
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