Who I am?

Franziska Pugin-Maurer

 Fascinated by and passionate about languages, I left Thun, my hometown, to perfect foreign languages.

In Geneva, I met my husband with whom I had two – now adult – daughters. It is with great pleasure that I devoted myself to this family life.

After this time devoted to our daughters, I was once again gripped by language fever. So I took advanced German courses at Ifage, where I met the head of the German department. My devotion for studies as well as my team spirit led her to offer me a job as a teacher at their premises.

Since 2010, I have been teaching German with passion and kindness. Subsequently, I started to teach the comprehension of Swiss-German (from Bern, Basel, St. Gall and Zurich) and for the past two years I have also been teaching the Bernese dialect (oral and written comprehension, as well as speaking and even writing).

Today, I have created this site with the aim to share my passion for languages with a wide number of individuals who are eager to learn.

Personally, I love to learn by communicating. I would therefore like, through these sessions, to develop the concept of “walk and talk” to teach in a new way and combine business with pleasure.

Short biography

1990 – 1992
French evening classes “Alliance Française, Higher Diploma in Modern French Studies, literature option”

1993
Italian evening course, then three months of language school in Florence

1997 – 2010
Stay-at-home mom

2007 – 2010
German evening course “Grosse Deutsches Sprachdiplom” (C2) then German literature course

2010 – present

Part-time German lessons at Ifage including evening classes, intensive courses, business German, corporate courses, Swiss German and Bernese dialect courses

Examiner for the Goethe Institute A1-B2

2012 – 2017
Federal Adult Training Certificate (BFFA)