Hi! My name is Vanessa Falcony and I’m the creator and founder of My BabyLingua. Thank you for visiting my website!
Let me tell you a little bit about who I am and how MyBabyLingua began. I was born and raised in my beloved Quito, Ecuador, in South America. I am a native speaker of both, Spanish and English. My mother was born and raised in the USA and my father was born and raised in Ecuador, but lived many years in the USA; my 3 siblings were born and raised in the USA as well. They decided to make a big change and moved to Ecuador, where two years later, I was born. From all this mixture, I was raised in a bilingual home and immersed in two very different cultures. And I love it! Because some family members became passionate about language learning, they became educators. I’ve been influenced by them my whole life, so my shared passion has always been languages and their unique worlds.
I hold a Linguistics and Translation degree from Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), as well as a CELTA teaching certificate from Cambridge University, England. In addition, I've attended many seminars and conferences in regards to languages throughout my entire professional life. I continue my education on a daily basis by reading, researching, and learning the most updated information out there. Also, I have a Life Coach certificate, which aims at helping people obtain their goals through realistic and attainable expectations.
I have 29 years experience in teaching language acquisition in English and Spanish to many people from around the world and from as young as newborns. As an instructor, I've taught all English levels, conversational classes, Linguistics, Phonology, Writing, TOEFL preparation, Public Speaking, and more. I've taught in big and small classrooms and private students, at academies, Universities, businesses, at my own home, and at family's homes. In addition, I was the English Teaching major Coordinator at Universidad de Los Hemisferios, in Quito, Ecuador. Among some of the many roles I performed as a coordinator, one was doing class observations of our students in this major when teaching at the schools they worked in, and provided them with feedback to better improve their skills. Our English Teaching department provided monthly training seminars to teachers from all schools in the city. Furthermore, I was invited to a renowned private school to instruct a phonology workshop to all Elementary English teachers.
I love to travel and I have lived in a few countries besides Ecuador like Colombia, Italy, Chile, and now the USA. In all these countries, I've taught and continue to teach various classes in English and in Spanish. Teaching people of all ages and from different countries, and living abroad have positively widened my understanding of the world, people, cultures, traditions, languages, and of language acquisition. I have to say I am truly fortunate and grateful of the great opportunities life has given me.
I am happily married to an extraordinary educator from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and we have two wonderful daughters, born in Italy and in Ecuador. My husband and I are raising our girls to be bilingual in English and in Spanish. We’re continuing with the international-bilingual family tradition!
Some of the things I love is singing and music. My family and I are very much involved in music on a daily basis. We're either creating our own music, playing an instrument, signing and harmonizing to everyday songs, or singing Karaoke on our Saturday nights. I also enjoy thinking up and creating my own didactic material for my classes and all my own material for My BabyLingua families.
