English lessons across Serbia

English is the one subject on this site where supply is not the problem, and that turns out to be its own difficulty. Almost everybody advertises English somewhere: students, people back from a few years abroad, teachers filling their evenings, and a fair number whose own English came off the same screens the pupil's did. The list is long and most of it looks alike. If you are starting from nothing, or it is a child of seven, this matters far less than it sounds. Almost anyone competent and patient will carry a beginner a long way, so take somebody nearby, cheap and pleasant, and stop agonising over it. That choice will not hold you back for a year or two. It begins to matter at the plateau, which in English arrives earlier and lasts longer than in most subjects. Somebody who watches everything without subtitles, follows meetings and has simply stopped getting better needs a teacher who can hear what specifically is going wrong, and that is a different skill from speaking well. The quickest test is to ask what they would do in a first lesson. We will chat and see where you are is the answer of a person who speaks English. Somebody who teaches it will tell you what they listen for.