Wordsmith Forge
English classes for upper-intermediate and advanced learners
& resources and ideas for online English teachers
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👋 Get to know me 👋
👋 Get to know me 👋
My name is Julia Lewandowska, and I've been teaching English ever since I wrote my first English coursebook for my grandmother. I was 9 at the time and a very bad teacher: I didn't manage to teach my grandma anything except the colours.
Since then, I have taught English to adults, teens and children in Poland, France and Italy, both on online and in-person courses... but I never did manage to teach my grandma properly!
When I was 19, I passed the Cambridge C2 exam in English (also called Cambridge Proficiency, or CPE). If you're curious to find out how I prepared, you can read about it here. Thanks to this exam, I was able to teach English in Paris during my gap year, and then to apply to university in the UK.
I now think Cambridge exams can be great motivators to really push yourself with your English, and I enjoy helping students prepare for them. If you think it might be a good idea for you, book a call to ask me about it.
I studied at the University of York. My degree in Film and TV Production actually had nothing to do with teaching... so in my third year, I also did an extra TESOL qualification for English teachers and trained my skills teaching Maths to English-speaking primary school children. I also managed to get a bit of work experience in the TV industry before COVID hit and everything shut down!
My time at university taught me a lot about academic language and writing in English: ask me and I'll be happy to chat about it.
Today, I live in Warsaw and focus on helping intermediate and advanced-level adults and young adults master their English skills for work, study and self-development.
When I'm not in class, I enjoy designing learning materials, creative writing, reading fiction, and sitting around in coffee shops. If you know any good ones to recommend, please give me a shout!
🧑🏫 Learn English with me 🧑🏫
🧑🏫 Learn English with me 🧑🏫
Would you like some help with your English? Book a free Zoom call with me and let's chat about your goals. During the call, I will do my best to share some suggestions for how you could improve and what to focus on, and we will discuss how I could help you do that.
Would you like to find out a bit more about how we could work together? Click through the buttons below to discover more.
Boost Your Speaking is an open conversation class that meets every Tuesday at 5:30, live on Zoom. Over 90 minutes, we chat about interesting topics, improve clarity and fluency for communicating at work, and discuss ways to say the same thing but better. Click on the button below to see what a sample lesson could look like, and find out how to join us.
I work with select students on a one-to-one basis, or in pairs or groups of three if you'd like to study with friends. I can help you prepare for a job interview, a holiday abroad, a Cambridge or IELTS exam in English, or Matura Dwujęzyczna. Explore more below, or get in touch with me to ask about availability.
🗓️ Book and pay for your classes here 🗓️
🗓️ Book and pay for your classes here 🗓️
If you're already a student, you can use your Fitssey details to log in below, sign up and pay for classes.
If you haven't worked with me before, please book a free Zoom call first or drop me an email saying you'd like to join a class. I will send you instructions on how to sign up and pay!
🫤 But what does Wordsmith Forge even mean? 🫤
🫤 But what does Wordsmith Forge even mean? 🫤
Click on the little arrows to find the answers to the questions! Did you know any of these words before?
Who's a smith?
Who's a smith?
A smith is a person who works with metal. You would visit a smith if you wanted a sword made, or a shield, or a metal tool. The profession also gave its name to the most common English surname: Smith.
Who's a wordsmith?
Who's a wordsmith?
A smith works with metal, but a wordsmith works with words. If you have a large vocabulary and can use words beautifully, or if you are a fantastic writer, you are a wordsmith!
What's a forge?
What's a forge?
A smith uses a forge in order to heat up metal so that it can be shaped. As a verb, to forge also means to make something out of metal like a smith does, or to produce something that was difficult to make: for example, two countries can forge a good diplomatic relationship.
Why Wordsmith Forge?
Why Wordsmith Forge?
At Wordsmith Forge, our goal is to forge YOU into a wordsmith, of course -- and give you the skills not merely to use English, but to use it confidently, precisely and elegantly.
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