Maria Sarkar, a graduate from the University of Hong Kong, with an MA from the University of Grenoble, has taught English and French in Hong Kong, India and the United Kingdom. After having specialized in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages, she has been teaching English to adults as well as children for the last 26 years. Speaking four languages herself, she has always had a penchant for words and feels passionate about motivating learners to imbibe the vast spectrum of words that the English language offers.