Steve Horvath

He has taught children in grades 1 to 6, covering all the lower elementary subjects and history. For the past three years he has also been involved in extensive research and hands-on, in-class practice with digital education platforms and has helped launch our program’s Going Digital extension. After completing his second year with Bilingual.hu, Steve was promoted to Team Leader at the Óbudai Nagy László (aka Váradi) location, supporting both his own students and the entire Bilingual.hu staff at Váradi.

Steve was born in Hungary but from the age of 20 to 30 he lived in the United States. After completing his first degree at the Physical Education University of Budapest in triathlon coaching, Steve received a full athletic scholarship to a college in Arizona. There, besides general education courses in literature, mathematics, science, social sciences and art, he received a formal music education with emphasis on choral music along with the mandatory instrumental studies. Steve graduated with honors in 1996.

Besides his academic success at the school he also earned a leading role in the campus community as a Resident Assistant. It was during those college years in America when he was first able to become actively involved with classroom work through his involvement in the tutoring program of his school in Arizona. In 2003, after having spent a third of his life in the States, Steve decided to move back to Hungary and continued his education. He became more and more interested in language teaching and bilingualism and was particularly interested in the unique position of language education in Hungary and started to study bilingualism in great depth. Since then he has been teaching English as a foreign and as a second language to children and adults of all nationalities and ages, both in the institutional and the private sector. His third degree, which Steve received in Hungary but all in English, is in Philology and Pedagogy, where his thesis revolved around the subject of early language learning and bilingualism.

“I have been teaching for over 15 years now and have been involved with students of all ages. One of the main reasons why I love teaching here at Bilingual.hu is that our methodology and philosophy are a direct reflection of what I think language education and education in itself needs to be like. Early language learning and bilingualism are very close to my heart. I have two wonderful children. They are twelve and nine and even at home, in my family life, we have a bilingual environment. Besides my work, I try to spend a lot of time with my girls, and live an active, healthy life.

I believe in positivity, honesty and the power of great examples. My goal is to create an environment where your children feel loved and safe so that they can build up their self-confidence and spread their ‘wings’.”