Hi everyone,

My name is Mateja and I'm the project co-ordinator for Slovenia.

Let me tell you something about me. I've always been in love with the English language, well at least ever since we got our first cassette-recorder at home (yes, I'm that old) and I could listen to all the songs in English with my 'big' sister. It didn't take us long to start transcribing the lyrics (phonetically, of course) and sing along.

I still listen to English songs whenever I can and this is also one of the reasons I'm so happy to be a part of this project.

My second passion is mountain cycling (Slovenia is perfect for that), although I don't have as much time for that as I used to. Nowadays I mostly teach my two children how to cycle; a boy Žan (pronounced as French 'Jean') is four years old and a girl, Ema is two.

I've been teaching at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana for the past ten years. I teach practical English classes and methodology (how to teach English to children). Besides that I teach English to children at a language school.

I'm really looking forward to meeting you all in June. I think we'll have a great time together!

Mateja