Cathal Larkin

Hi, I’m Cathal, an experienced, native teacher who’s damn good at his job, y que habla español.

I offer the usual general English and exam preparation classes, but I do them in a way which helps you develop an intuitive feel for English. I don’t just give you grammar rules to follow and exercises to do, I help you internalise the patterns of the language, so fluent, elegant English emerges from you effortlessly.

I also offer a niche course and two coaching services:

• The niche course is on phrasal verbs. Everybody says there is no logic to phrasal verbs, but there is, it’s just an image-based logic, not a rule-based logic. In this course I help you understand this logic and make it intuitive.

• One coaching service is for performance coaching. Lots of people have advanced grammar and vocabulary knowledge, but intermediate speaking abilities. I help you overcome the anxiety and other psychological barriers that get in the way of achieving advanced-level speaking.

• Another coaching service is for accent. Lots of Spanish speakers speak English in the machine gun rhythm of Spanish (dat dat dat dat dat dat dat) which makes them very hard for native English speakers to understand, even if their grammar and vocabulary are at an advanced level. I teach you how the rhythm of English works, and coach you on how to make it part of your natural expression.

If you want to know more about me, check out the reviews sections, where you’ll find recommendations from many happy students. Check out my Linkedin — full name: Cathal Larkin — where you’ll find more recommendations. And check out my Substack, The Performing Mind, where I write about the above topics.