What a lovely day to start my internship at Kurus English. The sun is shining and I am surrounded by happy students and lovely work colleagues!

My name is Caroline. I am proudly Swiss but also madly in love with Cape Town. What an amazing city! I was actually supposed to leave the rainbow nation by the end of January. But then I got this amazing opportunity to start an internship at Kurus English. I am very happy to join Kurus English and learn how an English school is organised. As I am going to study marketing and communication I am also excited to get a closer look into Kurus English’s marketing strategy. Another objective of my stay in the mother city is to improve my English skills. I am attending English classes in order to pass the advanced and proficiency. I absolutely appreciate the interaction with people from all walks of life and can`t wait to meet people from different corners of the world at Kurus English.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you would like to know more about Kurus English or Cape Town. I will be more than happy to help you.

I am looking forward to seeing you soon.

Have a lekker day!

Caroline

Dear Johannes, Diana & Gavin,

I can’t thank you guys enough for the most fantastic year. It has been a true honour to work with people of your calibre. Thank you wonderful people for being so much more than colleagues -  you guys really have been my CT family. I’m going to miss your smiles, laughs and all the silliness

Thank you for rocking my world

All my love, Jess xx

My name is Florian Abel and I`m really looking forward to the next seven weeks because I am doing an internship at Kurus English here in Cape Town!

I am 27 years old and I`m studying Business Education as a major and English as a minor subject at the University of Bamberg, Germany. In 2010, I attended Kurus English for a two-week intensive English course. From that time onwards, I desperately wanted to return to this wonderful city and to this great language school.

I would like to thank the whole Kurus English Team for giving me this fine opportunity to improve my English, to learn more about the culture of Cape Town and South Africa and, last but not least, to gain further insight into the processes of English language teaching and learning. I assure you that I will do my very best to support you!

If you would like to find out more about me or about Kurus English, please feel free to contact me.

I`m so looking forward to meeting many new Kurus students and friends!

Yours,

Florian

This year Kurus English decided to treat it’s staff to a different kind of year end party… Tabogganing!!

Although, at first quite challenging, the Kurus team zipped speedily around the course, breaking records and showing off!

It was a fantastic day and a great way to end off 2011!

The Coffeebeans Routes and Kurus English Team went up Table Mountain for a delicious picnic to end an exciting year. Thank you very much to the whole team for all your efforts and your tireless commitment! We look forward to having a successful New Year in 2011.

Thanks again!

Iain and Johannes

A warm welcome to Simnikiwe as a new team member of Coffeebeans Routes and Kurus English!

Simnikiwe supports us as receptionist, activity manager and junior consultant. Sim, we wish you a great time and lots of fun at 70 Wale Street!

Iain & Johannes

My name is Viktor, and  I´m really happy to tell you that I´ll be the new intern at Kurus English for the next 5 Months. For the last two years, I have been studying Media Management at Macromedia Hamburg University. Part of my course-work includes an internship which is targeted at further developing my expertise in the field of management. I´m convinced that Kurus English can help me to improve my language and widen my cultural awareness while giving much needed and relevant practical experience. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kurus English for this great opportunity and for the warm welcome which I received. I will certainly do my best and I will try very hard to give Kurus English something in return.

In the following is a short biography:

• Born: 29. February 1988 in Moscow (Russia)
• Hobbies: Football, Muy Thai, Travelling
• Favourite TV show: Two and a Half Men, South Park, How I met your Mother
• Favourite food: Greek, Sushi, Italian
• Favourite movie: Rush Hour 1,2,3
• Favourite music: RnB & Hip Hop
• Three words to describe myself: spontaneous, loyal, passionate

I´m looking forward to meeting new students and spending quality time with them.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask me whatever you want to know about me or Kurus English!

Kind regards,

Viktor Neu

I can’t believe it – I’m flying back to Germany in two days. The time flew by so quickly.

I arrived in South Africa 10 months ago. I remember it, as if it was yesterday. I was so excited, scared, apprehensive and curious. I didn’t know what to expect. And now I already miss South Africa, Cape Town, the people, my friends…. Just everything!!

Before I came to South Africa, I didn’t know that I’d stay for 10 months. Only 6 months were planned. But I knew very soon that I would like to stay longer. An internship at Kurus English was a great opportunity to extend my stay and to experience more of South Africa, Cape Town, the people and the culture.

I want to thank the whole Kurus Team for the great time I had with you. The opportunity to experience your Language Excursions – they were great fun! Thank you for giving me the chance to improve my English and for making my five months worthwhile.

My 10 months in South Africa were awesome, so eventful and diverse. I wouldn’t have wanted to miss them!!

I hope that I could fulfill your expectations and that I could support Kurus English.

Goodbye Johannes, Diana, Gavin, Ian and Michael!!!

Wish you all the best! We’ll keep in touch!!

Anke

Congratulations Gavin!
Kurus English would like to wish you all the best in your new position as Director of Studies (DOS) at Kurus English.

Gavin has taken over the DOS position from Aaliya Bulbulia, who left Kurus English at the end of April. Gavin and Aaliya were jointly responsible for Academics from the outset of Kurus English. From now on Gavin is the sole head of the Academic Department.

Aaliya, Kurus English would like to thank you very much for your most valuable support and also for your lasting contribution to the school during the start-up phase!

We wish you all the best for your future endeavours.

this is me, Anke, and I will be the new intern of Kurus English for the next few months.
I’m from Germany where I study Business Administration.
I have been in South Africa for five month already. The reason why I came to South Africa was my decision to study a semester abroad at Stellenbosch University. Stellenbosch is a small student town not far from Cape Town and very famous for its wine-growing.
The time I have had so far was wonderful and in the meantime I can’t get enough of Cape Town, the people, the landscape, the sun and the good vibe. So I used the chance to extend my stay in South Africa by doing an internship at Kurus English.
I am very glad that I can support Kurus English for the next five month. I will do my best and I am sure that I cannot only improve my business and marketing skills but also my English skills. But of course I’m also looking forward to getting to know South Africa and its locals better.

Last but not least I would like to use this opportunity to thank Kurus and all involved for the great welcome dinner. It was delicious

If you want to find out more about me or Kurus English don’t hesitate to contact me.

Looking forward to meeting many new Kurus students and friends.

Yours Anke

Hello everybody,

First of all, thank you for the warm welcome at Kurus English.
I’ll be the marketing/communication intern for the next.. (almost) 5 months. I come from Holland, so I can understand the ‘Afrikaans’ language. But my goal will be to speak better English then my English teacher in Holland at the end of my stay here in Cape Town. I am afraid I can’t reach that because he’s a native speaker but I’ll give it a try. Besides improving my English I also want to experience the work at Kurus English. I’m gonna practice my learned knowledge at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences. I study International Business & Languages, so I also want to improve my skills concerning the educational programme.
Please feel free to ask questions or whatever you want to know about me or Kurus English!

Kind regards,
Jessica

A warm welcome to Jessica! Jessica joins the Kurus English team for the next 5 months. She supports us with our marketing and communcication efforts. Thanks, Jessica, for your support! We all wish you a great time in Cape Town and at Kurus English!

June Issue: Starting-Up

The German Magazine “Starting-Up” published Kurus English’ and Johannes’ founding story in their June issue. Please download the article here! (In German only, sorry!)

Hello Janne!

Welcome to Kurus English and thank you very much for your support!

Janne is doing a 5 months internship with us and she will focus on marketing and communications.

Enjoy!

Welcome, Sina, to Kurus English!

Sina is doing a 4 week English Language Course with Kurus English. Afterwards she will be working with us for 2 more months, until January 2009. Sina is helping us with the administration of the school.

Thanks!

Hi Rita!

Welcome to Kurus English and thank you very much for your support!

Rita is doing a 2 months internship with us. Rita will be liaising with language travel agencies in Brazil.

Kurus English would like to contribute to the practical training of students not only from South Africa, but also from the rest of the world. Anybody, who is interested in working with us is warmly invited to send a letter of motivation and a CV to info@kurus-english.com

So far three interns have worked with Kurus English during its start-up phase. Firstly, Michael Letlala, a South African Tourism graduate joined Coffeebeans Routes and Kurus English from November 2007 to April 2008. Nowadays, Michael is the Operations Manager at Coffeebeans Routes! Well done, Michael!

Secondly, Mokgadi Molapo, a Tourism student from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology has finished her 6 months compulsary practical training with us. She worked with us from January to March 2008. Mokgadi is now graduating and we wish her good luck for her exams and all the best for her future.

Finally, Karina Krukowski from Germany completed a 4 week internship with us while visiting Cape Town, in February 2008. Karina is studying in Krakau at the moment and we wish her a great time in Poland!

I would like to welcome on board the whole team of M Kommunikation, a German marketing agency, that is supporting us in promoting Kurus English in Europe! Thank you very much for joining us!

For more information about M Kommunikation please visit their website: http://www.m-kommunikation.eu/

Gavin Cuttler (Director of Studies)

Diana Horvat (Operations Manager)

Johannes Kraus (Director)

Iain Harris (Coffeebeans Routes)- Joint Venture Partner for our Language Excursions)

For more information about our team please click here!