About NLG

NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Christine

And I'm not just here to teach you German — I'm here to guide you through a cultural and emotional transition I've truly lived, and I bring professional, linguistic, and cross-cultural expertise to back it up.

By the time I reached fluency in German, I’d lived through just about every expat challenge you can imagine: raising kids in a new culture, navigating endless layers of bureaucracy, and figuring out how to build a community from scratch.

Those experiences shaped not just my language skills, but the way I understand what it really means to integrate. Because language learning isn’t just about memorizing words — it’s about confidence, connection, and feeling like you finally belong somewhere new.

That’s why I created Next Level German: to help you cut through the noise, skip the fluff, and focus on what actually works. No endless drills. No one-size-fits-all textbook lessons. And definitely no wasted hours on methods that sound good but don’t deliver. Instead, I teach practical tools, shortcuts, and real-life communication strategies that get you speaking sooner, connecting faster, and feeling less alone while you do it.

Because at the end of the day, this isn’t about perfect grammar — it’s about building a life that feels like your own, right here in Germany. 

Why trust me?

I’ve called Germany home for over 20 years, and I’ve experienced the full journey from awkward newcomer to confident, fluent insider. Along the way, I earned my C2 certification, studied language, culture, and communication, and built a bilingual career that has had me switching between English and German more times than I can count.

Professionally, I’ve worked across education, cross-cultural communication, and language support — helping international professionals, students, and families find their footing and their voice in everyday German life. Personally, I’ve done it all while raising a family, navigating German schools, handling all that delightful bureaucracy, and building lasting friendships across languages and cultures.

So when I tell you I get it — I really do.
And when I say there’s a faster, kinder, and far more human way to learn German, I mean it — because I’ve lived it.

Everything inside Next Level German is built from that mix of experience: the academic understanding of how languages work, and the real-world wisdom of how life in Germany actually feels. My goal is simple — to help you learn better, faster, and more meaningfully, so you can stop feeling like a visitor and start feeling at home.

My Story

I always knew I wanted to go far in life, so I worked hard to become the first person in my family to graduate from college. After graduation, I thought my future was a guaranteed success. Then once I started having to make student loan payments, my dreams of a better life seemed out of reach.

I felt frustrated and helpless, but I had worked too hard to let my dreams slip away. I dove into financial literacy and came up with a system that allowed me to eliminate debt, save more, and invest for my future. Now I empower others on their journey to financial freedom.

Why I Do It This Way

Language fluency is not a term I heard while growing up in Boston, a very culturally diverse city. While my parents did their best, I longed to know more, see more, do more, hear more ...and become multilingual. Our global community is so full of inspiring stories, this pushed me to aim higher. But despite my best efforts, learning in classrooms was tough.

Once I experienced immersion language learning in Mexico, it was clear to me that this was THE way to learn! After moving to Germany to learn German, I taught English to earn a living. Over the last 20 years, I've imitated the immersion method by integrating real-life activities and content into my language lessons. It's the same way that children learn languages, and they don't need a grammar book to do it. It's known today as CLIL (content- and language-integrated learning).

I realized that the methods I used could help others like me who wanted to learn naturally but didn’t grow up in multilingual families. So I made it my mission to show as many people as possible how this method allows them to use their own natural ability to learn languages. In this case, to learn German!