Foreign Language Teachers

in alphabetical order

Dóra Géber - German Teacher

Dora graduated from ELTE in 2012 where she received MAs in German as a foreign language and Hungarian as a foreign language. During her studies she specialized in contrastive linguistics and translation theory. She is interested in multilingualism, Austrianisms „Austriazismen”, teaching German to the Swabian German minority in Hungary,  Swabian culture and dance.

She finds it a great challenge to teach foreign languages in a multicultural environment. She also teaches Hungarian as a foreign language at the Balassi Institute.

Dora can be contacted at GeberD@ceu.edu

Dr. Emőke Jámbor - Spanish and Hungarian teacher

Emőke graduated from ELTE in Spanish (1993) and Hungarian as a Foreign Language (2020). She taught Spanish Language at the Corvinus University (1993). She has been working as a teacher as Spanish (2005) and as Hungarian as a Foreigner Language (2020) and as head of Department of Neo-latin Languages at the Polytechnic and Economics University of Budapest. She taught Hungarian language at the Institut Cervantes of Budapest (2021). Currently she teaches Hungarian language and culture at the University of Barcelona (2022).

He has a doctorate in applied linguistics (2005), his research topic is cultural elements in Spanish textbooks.

Emőke can be contacted at jambor.emoke@gtk.bme.hu

András Kétyi Dr. - German Teacher

András Kétyi is Senior Lecturer at Budapest Business School (Hungary) with a history of working in higher education. skilled in Moodle, intercultural communication, lecturing and educational technology. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education from the University of Szeged (Hungary). He has recently been working on different Mobil-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) projects, including gamification and has been involved in Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) research. For the PBLL-project launched two years ago, he and his colleagues of the German Section at BBS were awarded "European Language Label" in 2019.

András can be contacted at ketyi.andras@uni-bge.hu

Krisztina Kovacs - German Teacher

Krisztina graduated from the University of Debrecen where she received an MA in German Language and Literature with Teacher Education.

She studied at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

She worked as a lecturer at the PPKE and at the University of Debrecen and, in addition to German as a foreign language, taught courses in the fields of literature, translation and cultural studies. She taught German as a Foreign Language as a freelance German teacher for the Goethe-Institut Budapest, Vienna and Munich.

Krisztina can be contacted at András can be contacted at kovacskri@ceu.edu

Enikő Kraft - German Teacher

Enikő teaches at IBS and the Goethe Institute in Budapest,  being a member of the latter one since 2012. Between 2005 and 2007 she was a staff member of the  Humboldt Institute. In 2004 she graduated from  PPKE with a Masters in History and German.   

Enikő can be contacted at kraft.eniko@gmail.com

Erzsébet Magyar - French Teacher

Erzsebet studied in Brussels and Budapest (MAs in History and French Language and Literature). She also received her MA in Central European History at CEU and her PhD in Cultural History at ELTE (Budapest). Her interests cover a wide range of topics: Foreign Language Acquisition, French Literature and Cultural Studies, Central European History, European Cultural History, Urban History. She has worked for CEU since 1998 and she really enjoys her job.

Erzsi can be contacted at magyar@ceu.edu


Erika Nagy - Spanish Teacher


Erika has been working as a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language for more than 25 years; in the past 20 years as the module leader and head of Spanish Department at IBS, Budapest (Oxford Brookes University) and since 2007 as part-time teacher at Instituto Cervantes, Budapest.

She is the author of several Spanish course books specialized in teaching general Spanish to secondary and grammar school and adult learners. These books were published by the main textbook publisher in the country and received a very good critic once they were stared to be used at schools. They even won the second prize among language textbooks published in Hungary. Erika can be contacted at eri.nagy66@gmail.com

Sarolta Németh - German Teacher

Sarolta teaches at the Goethe Institute Düsseldorf and at CEU.

She received her Master's degree in German linguistics and communication in 2004. As an exchange student she also studied at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf and at Kölner Universität. She also spent some time in Berlin a scholarship recepient.

She enjoys teaching international groups. In her free time she likes spending time in nature.

Sarolta can be contacted at   NemethS@ceu.edu 

Zoltán Ruppert - German Teacher

Zoltán received his MA degree in German and Hungarian as a foreign language at ELTE Budapest. He has been working as a freelance teacher mainly at AUDI Hungaria Zrt. for 8 years. In addition to general German language, he also teaches business and automotive languages. He is happy to incorporate spoken language examples into his lessons, as he teaches Hungarian to native German speakers, so he is in daily contact with the spoken language.

He is also a qualified TELC examiner in B2 and C1 levels.

 Zoltán can be contacted at ruppertz@ceu.edu

Csilla Váradi - German Teacher

Csilla can be contacted at varadics@ceu.edu