David Lebor is not your typical German language teacher. He refuses to use textbooks. He doesn’t teach in a classroom setting, but prefers to take his students onto the streets. And, perhaps most surprising of all, he is British.
Yet the 42-year-old entrepreneur’s radical new approach to teaching languages is helping Germany deal with one of the biggest issues thrown up by the influx of more than 1m migrants in recent years: teaching them to speak German.
Armed with nothing more than a mobile phone app, Mr Lebor is sending young migrants out onto the streets of Berlin to learn German by talking to local people.
Nasratullah Sultani arrived in Germany three months ago after fleeing his native Afghanistan….
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