Meet Buse
The page where you get to know me (rather too) closely: my story, my training, and everything that makes me me.
The English I was taught in school in Turkey and the English people actually speak in America were not the same language, and I found that out at 16, the moment I stepped onto that continent alone. Closing that gap on my own took me years. What I teach today is that gap itself.
16 years old
I left for the US on my own, on a 50% scholarship, for high school.
100% scholarship
College paid in full by academic merit; a double major in sociology and business.
10 years
Maryland, Indiana and Ohio; the only Turkish student at my college.
2 years
B2B SaaS sales development at a US-based technology company.
The facts
I started high school in the United States at sixteen on a 50% scholarship, then completed college on a full scholarship. I lived in the US for a total of ten years.
A career built on sociology and business: B2B SaaS sales at US-based technology companies, and co-founding Thanxful, an AI-supported gratitude journal.
My view: if half of English is grammar and practice, the other half is psychology and cultural fluency. I put that missing half at the center and teach the language through the unwritten dynamics of American culture, not through rules.
My promise to you: not a standard lesson that drills rules, but communication mentoring that breaks the fear of being judged and puts you forward in real meetings and interviews.
Having lived in both languages, I can tell mid-sentence what your mind is translating from Turkish, and take you from memorized lines to the fluency where you sound like yourself.
Where it starts
I moved to the US at sixteen on a 50% scholarship for high school, then completed college on a full scholarship. I spent ten years in Maryland, Indiana and Ohio, in places with almost no Turkish community. My English settled inside daily life, not inside a classroom.
In my first year I noticed something: the English I had learned at school and the English spoken around me were not the same language. My grammar was fine and my test scores were high; but the sentences people actually built, the sounds they linked, the syllables they dropped were different. Closing that gap took years.
What I teach today is exactly that gap. Having lived in both languages, I can see what goes through a Turkish speaker’s mind mid-sentence: which sentence was built in Turkish and translated, which sound was swapped for its Turkish neighbor.
Let us start by meeting.
In a 15-minute intro call we talk about your level, your goal and your schedule. I am not selling you a lesson; we decide together whether this is a fit.
