Our team & the languages
we offer at a glance

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced speaker, our staff of highly qualified and experienced bilingual teachers will help you find the words and master the structures you need to express yourself freely and confidently in a foreign language.

English

Learn to speak English with confidence!

German

Lernen Sie, Deutsch selbstsicher zu sprechen!

French

Apprenez à parler français avec confiance!

Spanish

Aprende a hablar español con confianza!

Turkish

Kendine güvenerek Türkçe konuşmayı öğren!

Italian

Impara a parlare italiano con sicurezza!

Deborah Cohen

German / English / French

Raised in a multilingual environment, Deborah has been working as a professional language teacher, academic translator and interpreter for more than 30 years. She founded the SPRACHwerk language school in 2004. Deborah developed the teaching method used at SPRACHwerk over many years of training young adult students for oral foreign language exams and is convinced that it is the fastest and most effective way to help learners achieve fluency in a foreign language.

Stefania Migliorati

Italian / German

Born and raised in Bergamo in Italy’s Lombardy region, Stefania studied English and German in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bergamo and worked as a translator (Ger>Ita) and visual artist before relocating to Berlin in 2009 and devoting herself to teaching Italian as a foreign language. Since 2024 she has also been enchanting students at SPRACHwerk with her pedagogical skill, charm and wit.

Nuri Arslan

Turkish

Nuri is from the Antalya Province in Southwestern Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea. He studied law and worked as a lawyer in Istanbul before moving to Germany in 1992. Since then, he has worked as a self-employed language teacher, including at the Leo-Baeck Foundation. He’s been a member of the SPRACHwerk team since 2011. As a teacher, Nuri radiates warm-heartedness and patience. He summarizes his philosophy as a language teacher in the following words: “When you learn a new language, you become yet another person.”

Ander Arrizabalaga

Spanish (Castilian) / Basque

Born in San Sebastián (Spain) and raised bilingually in Basque and Spanish, Ander graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of the Basque Country in 2014. Subsequently, he studied and worked in the United Kingdom for several years. Through learning three foreign languages himself, he discovered his passion for teaching languages and getting to know different cultures through them. He obtained a Master’s degree in teaching and taught both English and his native Basque in Spain until he decided to move to Germany. Since his arrival in Berlin, he has dedicated himself to teaching foreign languages to students of all ages. He joined the team at SPRACHwerk in 2019.

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