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A Community of Language Enthusiasts

Driven by passion and commitment to learning.

Hello! Welcome to Verb Hive. We are thrilled to have you in our community!

Verb Hive is a unique online community that connects people passionate about or interested in learning languages with qualified, professional language instructors.

We hope that you will find this initiative valuable and worthwhile. Here’s to wishing you a productive and memorable language learning experience.

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Our Teachers

Our pool of partners comprise language teaching professionals who are either native speakers or specialists of the languages they teach. We maintain transparency on the details and qualifications of our teachers to help you get to know them, even before you enroll.

ASIAN LANGUAGES

EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

ASIAN LANGUAGES

Yen

KOREAN

Yen graduated Magna cum laude from UP Diliman with a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics. She studied Korean Education for her Master's degree at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. She likes going to 노래방 (Korean karaoke) and always sings TaeTiSeo's Twinkle, plus all its second voices.

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James

KOREAN

James graduated Magna cum laude from UP Diliman with a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics. As a professional language teacher of Korean by day and a language researcher by night, he is a leading proponent of Korean language education in the Philippines.

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Seoga

KOREAN

Seoga is a native professional teacher of the Korean language, and acting & drama. He is a theatre actor and stage performer in Korea and Australia, with a degree in the performing and broadcasting arts from the Dae Kyung College. He is a certified multi-lingual, with an excellent command of English and Mandarin Chinese. 

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Por

THAI

Por graduated from Chulalongkorn University, one of Asia's leading universities. A native Thai speaker, she studied Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), and has been professionally teaching languages to Thai and foreign students alike. She manages her own language and academic tutorial center in her native land of Surin, Thailand.

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Jesse

JAPANESE

Jesse is a professional language instructor who studied Japanese Language and Culture at the Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan, and trained in Japanese Noh Theater in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe, Japan. She is knowledgeable in several fields of Japanese culture, including literature, history and traditional performance, and is currently completing her degree in Comparative Literature at UP Diliman. 

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Raf

CHINESE

Raphaël is a professional language teacher and representative of Cambridge University in Taiwan. He has a Master’s in Tourism from the National Kaohsiung University in Taiwan and a degree in Applied Foreign Language Education from the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée in France. He teaches French, German and Mandarin Chinese.

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Jayden

CHINESE & KOREAN

Jayden is professional interpreter and instructor, and a travel specialist based in Seoul, Korea. He is a licensed pilot and has been a crew member of one of Asia's major airlines. He graduated with a degree in English Literature and Chinese Studies from Hansung University in Seoul.

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Manar

ARABIC

Manar is a native speaker of Syrian Arabic. She has five years intensive training in Modern Standard Arabic and "fusha", the classical Arabic, the base of all modern Arabic forms and dialects. She is a professional interpreter and translator between Arabic, English and Greek. She enjoys teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in a fun and engaging way.

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EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Jerome

SPANISH, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE

Jerome graduated Summa cum laude from the UP Diliman, with a degree in European Languages. He took up his specialization courses in Language Education at the Italian University for Foreigners, Perugia. Once a professional language instructor, he is now a Marketing Director with a global energy firm. View details

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Julien

FRENCH

Julien is a professional language instructor and executive coach with a decade of experience in teaching online and in universities. A true globetrotter, Julien has lived in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, France, Italy and USA, where he studied and worked as a teacher, actor and model. He has a French Master - Grande École from École Supérieur de Commerce de Paris, and a degree in International Business from the Columbia University in the USA. 

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Raf

FRENCH & GERMAN

Raphaël is a German, French, Italian and English language professor with extensive experience in teaching at universities. Raf is currently representing the University of Cambridge in one of Taiwan’s prestigious high schools. He holds a degree in Applied Foreign Language Education from the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.

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Sophie

FRENCH

Sophie is a professional French instructor with various institutions, who holds multiple degrees in the French language from universities in the Philippines and France. She has a Master’s in Teaching French from Université Côte d’Azur and Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, and a Bachelor’s in French and German, magna cum laude, from UP Diliman.

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Elenie

FRENCH

Elenie graduated from UP Diliman and from prestigious universities in Europe. She is a recipient of multiple European scholarships since 2012. One of the leading French educators in the Philippines, she also speaks several foreign languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and Lithuanian. View details

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Beppe

ITALIAN

Giuseppe is a classical musician with a penchant for languages. He is a native Italian speaker and also speaks German, Spanish and some Dutch. Giuseppe has been teaching English, Latin and Italian in Austria, Netherlands and UK for many years. He is currently specializing in Teaching Italian to Foreigners, with focus on adults and opera singers.

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Ready for your next class?

Do you want to teach with us? Check out our Partners page.

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