Foreign Language Teachers

in alphabetical order

Dr. Patrícia Beták - French and Spanish Teacher

Patrícia is a freelance interpreter and language teacher, she is passionate about neo-Latin languages. She graduated from ELTE-BTK and BME-GTK (Budapest).

She has been training interpreters and translators in Hungarian universities (Károli, BME, ELTE) for many years and is the president of the Association of Freelance Interpreters and Translators of Hungary (SZOFT), as well as being involved in civil society.

 As a researcher, she has a doctorate (2020) on the writing of resilience in Albert Camus in co-direction with ELTE (Budapest) and Université Savoie Mont Blanc (Chambéry).

Patrícia can be contacted at betak.patricia@gmail.com

 

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

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 kovacskri@ceu.edu

Lili Szabolcsi - French teacher

Lili earned her Master's degree in teaching French and Hungarian as foreign languages at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, in 2016, and has been inspiring learners ever since in leading schools and language centres.

Lili is known for her creative, research-based teaching methods, drawing on digital pedagogy and active learning strategies to make language acquisition both effective and enjoyable.

Her professional development is continuous: over the years she has completed numerous advanced trainings and workshops in innovative language education and digital pedagogy, ensuring that her teaching remains at the forefront of current practice. A committed lifelong learner and dedicated mentor, Lili brings energy, expertise and a deep love of languages to every classroom.

Lili can be contacted at szabolcsi.lili@gmail.com

Li Yiying - Chinese teacher

Li Yiying earned her M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, in 2016. She has extensive experience teaching Mandarin and Taiwanese culture to international students in both Europe and Taiwan and has led calligraphy workshops in Poland, Austria and Hungary.

She enjoys working in multicultural environments and, in 2022, founded Hungary’s first officially certified Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning (TCML).

Li Yiying can be contacted at LiY@ceu.edu

Csilla Váradi - German Teacher

Csilla can be contacted at varadics@ceu.edu