A graduate of Romance studies at the University of Warsaw with 10 years' experience in teaching French. She has a certificate to hold secondary leaving (Matura) exams. She has attended numerous methodological training sessions in Poland and France on preparatory courses for DELF and DALF exams as well as using new technologies and drama techniques in teaching language.

After graduation, in 1997-2007 she worked in the comprehensive secondary school (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego) in Warsaw. Her numerous students have studied or graduated from the Institute of Romance Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, as well as French universities. In the secondary school she conducted a French theatre group winning many prizes and honourable mentions at festivals in Poland and abroad.

A graduate of the Teacher's College of French and Romance studies at the University of Warsaw, PhD of the University of Warsaw, has received a grant from the French government. Her several months long stays in French speaking countries: France, Luxembourg and Switzerland let Justyna Świątkowska better explore the culture and language as well as various techniques of teaching French. For a year she has been with Voila where she teaches adult beginners and more advanced students. Due to her fascination in the culture of the French speaking countries, she uses such information to add colour to her classes.

Ma passion pour le français a déjà commencé pendant les trois premières années de mon apprentissage à l'école primaire française à Varsovie. Puis, c'étaient des études au Collège Universitaire de Varsovie et à la Philologie Romane. Enfin, j'ai fait des recherches pour ma thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2004. J'ai commencé à enseigner le français au début de mes études universitaires. Depuis, je n'ai jamais arr?té. Grâce à cela, j'ai compris que la connaissance du vocabulaire ou de la grammaire d'une langue ne devrait pas ?tre le seul objectif à atteindre. A mon avis l'apprentissage d'une langue donne à l'apprenant l'accès à un univers culturel différent du sien. La culture francophone sera présente pendant mes cours au m?me degré que la grammaire ou le vocabulaire du français. «Comment séparer la culture de la langue ?» c'était l'un des sujets que j'ai exploités dans ma thèse de doctorat à l'Université de Varsovie. La notion de culture si vaste comprend entre autres la langue de tous les jours. A ces fins je propose de travailler sur les documents authentiques (publicités, extraits de films, chansons) qu'on trouve dans la presse quotidienne, à la télé et à la radio mais aussi sur Internet.

In 1988 she graduated from French Filology at the University of Warsaw. She worked as a teacher in the French Institute (1986-1991), as a methodologist and supervisor of teaching practice at the Teacher's College of French (1991-1999). Since 1999 she has been working as a teacher in American School of Warsaw teaching French to children. Since 2006 she has been employed as a teacher at VOILA. Since 1998 she has been an active member of "PROF-EUROPE" Association of the Teachers of French. At the moment she is the president of Warsaw department of the Association. She organises meetings for teachers, workshops on methodology of teaching, training sessions and traineeships. She took part in numerous international conferences ( Vienna 2006, Riga 2002, Nice 2000 and 2001). In 2007 she was appointed a secretary to the 1st Polish Congress of the Teachers of French.

J'adore enseigner le français! J'aime bien travailler avec tous les groupes d'âge, enfants et adultes, débutants et avancés. Je suis persuadée que l'enseignement efficace d'une langue dépend de la motivation interne et externe de l'apprenant, je fais donc tout mon possible pour activiser et mobiliser mes étudiants. Pendant mes cours, j´utilise des chansons, des fragments de films et de la publicité. J´ essaie aussi d´introduire autant que possible des documents authentiques : des articles de presse, des petites annonces, de la publicité et toute sorte de dépliants. Je travaille avec les images, les documents sonores et les objets authentiques pour activer les deux hémisphères du cerveau. J'introduis aussi des techniques théâtrales en classe. Avec moi vous n´allez pas vous ennuyer!

Two years ago Nathalie Viala completed two years of studies at the Social Sciences department and then a year of language studies. Afterwards she took up numerous trips and met many people and decided to turn to teaching French. She started studies at the University of Sorbonne in Paris where she graduated from the department of teaching French as a foreign language. She also completed her post graduate studies of education engineering at Sorbonne as well, yet her traineeship was at the University of Warsaw. She decided to stay in Warsaw after the traineeship. She started working at Voila in October 2007.

A Frenchman living in Poland since 2006. He has been with VOILA Centre for a year - running group and one to one classes introducing French culture and mentality during additional workshops on culture and language. He has graduated from the university of Vannes, where he studied Statistiques et Traitement Informatique des Donnees, and then developed the acquired knowledge working in a company in Paris. Now a student of 'Licence Sciences du langage' at the university of Rouen. He is still learning Polish as well to better understand the country where he lives. A member of PROF-EUROPE association, participating in the theatre traineeship conducted by Fabrice Dubusset from Caviolam in Vichy. He attended workshops on how to teach French for special purposes ('Français sur Objectifs Spécifiques').

Rémi Gerôme is French and comes from Auvergne. He studied English philology at the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne and specialized in the 'British literature, language and civilisation'. After that he went to England. He worked as an educational consultant responsible for the French language in a secondary school in Lincolnshire. This experience resulted in taking up new studies, this time at the Institute of FLE (Didactics of French as a Foreign Language) at the Lumiere University Lyon 2. The studies provided him with necessary knowledge to teach the language and culture of his country abroad. In 2007 he went to Rumania where he worked as a teacher in a Military Academy. In September 2008 he joined the Voila team.

Maciek Szyszkowski discovered the language of Moliere when he was in high school and such unexpected encounters are hardly ever forgotten. In fact, after finishing the school he decided to study the French language at the Catholic University of Lublin at the same time being a student of Lettres Modernes at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers. The studies made him fascinated by French literature which in the end resulted in his master's thesis about the theatre of Voltaire and Sartre. He has also been granted diplomas by the Chamber of Commerce in Paris certifying his knowledge of specialist language.

She spent her childhood in Paris where she went to junior high and high school where she followed a course focused on French, foreign languages and philosophy ("série littéraire"). After graduating with distinction she came back to Poland and studied French philology at the University of Warsaw, journalism at Collegium Civitas and later on sociology at the University of Warsaw in Institute of Applied Social Sciences. She teaches French for 12 years working both with groups and with individual students. She also translates French books and comic books for children. Has a history of work as a journalist for Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik and Przekrój. Trying to focus only on journalism, she missed teaching as well as working with students. Today she combines both her passions often using topics of her articles when preparing lessons and workshops for her students.

After she graduated from University College of French Language Teacher Education at Warsaw University in 2006 she decided to study in Paris. In 2008 she obtained a Master?s degree in Didactics of French as a Foreign Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III). The topic of her Master?s thesis was related to teaching French through 20th and 21st-century francophone art. After graduating she lived her Mexican adventure working as a French teacher for Alliance Française in Durango and for different language schools in Mexico City. In 2009 she came back to Paris to work as a teacher in one of language schools.