Elephant English Dublin
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Exam coach for Cambridge FCE, Cambridge CAE and IELTS |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Introduction | Brandon has been a language teacher for 13 years. She has a Master's degree in foreign language education from the University of Virginia and a Master's in Spanish from Middlebury College. Originally from Seattle (USA), she lived in Madrid for many years and has called Dublin home since 2010. She speaks Spanish fluently and is hard at work improving her Italian. |
| Interests | Helping students achieve their top possible score on FCE, CAE and IELTS, the history of English, Spanish and Italian language, learning about new cultures, gardening, yoga, animals... especially black labs! |
| Favorite movies | You Can Count on Me, House of Sand and Fog, Midnight in Paris, The Shawshank Redemption, Hable con ella, El hijo de la novia |
| Favorite music | Conor Oberst, Wilco, The Riptide Movement, Josh Ritter, Lucio Battisti, The National, The Stone Roses, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart... and Taylor Swift |
| Favorite books | The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion), Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse (Jared Diamond), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen), Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett), The Onmivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan) |