In addition to the courses I organise myself, I also deliver Business English trainings as a freelance subcontractor for the following language institutes in The Netherlands and Belgium:

• Elycio Talen (Zeist)

• EBC Talen (Bergen op Zoom)

• Haumann Taaltrainingen (Amsterdam)

• BLCC Business Language and Communication Centre (Kortrijk, Belgium)

• ELAN Languages (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium)

• De Taaltrainer (Amersfoort)

• LTC Taaltrainingen (Nijmegen)

• Language Partners (Nijmegen)

My teaching career started unofficially at the age of 9, when I participated in a program where stronger readers from the fourth grade read children's books together with weaker readers from the first grade for an hour a week . I continued working as a tutor during university, and I got my first 'real' teaching job soon after graduating, when I moved to Istanbul in 2009 to teach English as a Second Language. There I met my wife, a fellow language teacher from The Netherlands, and after working for a few years in Southeast Asia we later moved to this country to settle down.

You can see my LinkedIn profile here.

About me

My name is Matt (Matthew John Rooks, hence 'MJR' English), and I am originally from the small village of Saranac Lake, New York, in the northeastern United States. I have seventeen years of experience teaching English as a Second Language. Since moving to The Netherlands nine years ago, I have specialised in teaching General English and Business English to adults working for Dutch and international companies in a wide range of industries.