Tania ZIMEN
Manager
Tania Zimen has been a German and a horse-riding teacher, trainer, consultant and professional translator in the past years in fields as varied as foreign languages, office applications and specific business applications (ERP, DMS, front and back-office applications, etc.). Working for clients such as Arcelor, PSA, Sanofi-Aventis, SAGE-Cogestib, Galeries Lafayette, Yu Sports, La Société Hippique Percheronne or Bergquell Brauerei Löbau, she has acquired a certain versatility. She therefore can now accept and conduct missions combining consulting, creating training modules and the associated training materials, change management, deployment assistance and final user training. Woman of “multi-national” culture Tania considers herself before anything else as a European citizen. For the past six years she has returned to teaching foreign languages, her original core business, and teaches German in secondary schools.
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Tania lived and worked for 10 years in Orthez, in the south-west of France, between Pau and Bayonne. In 2006 this city received a certification label as a “point of attraction and development for rural image and written excellence”
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In 2011 she joined the “Pôle I.Étech” business center, managed by the Orthez Council Community business center and supporting companies working in the field of image and writing.
In 2012, Tania Zimen and her family left the southwestern Béarn and moved to the more northerly "Pays de la Loire" area, near Le Mans. Skriva moves its new headquarters to the "Pôle Européen du Cheval / Boulerie Jump", an international horse show facility. From then on, the training and translation agency Skriva offers a wide range of services in the field of horses and equestrian sports. The new clients of the agency are for instance amateur and professional horse-riders, al riders, service companies for horse breeders and equestrian athletes, horse associations, saddleries and equestrian shops etc…. This gives Tania the opportunity to combine her work and her passion for horses.
In 2013, Tania put Skriva’s activities on hold for some time in order to be able to give her career a new direction in equestrian sport. From September on she completes the 3-year “BPJEPS, Activités Équestres” vocational training, the French official Horseback Riding Instructor degree. Skriva then closes its office on the "Pôle Européen du Cheval / Boulerie Jump"
In June 2014 Tania Obtained the CQP ASA, Équitation, mention Cheval, the First official riding teaching state acknowledged degree. From September, in parallel to following the “BPJEPS, Activités Équestres” vocational training, Tania resumes some of Skriva activities, such as foreign language teaching and training and translation services.
From September 2014 Tania starts teaching German in secondary schools and colleges of higher education in Le Mans
2017: Tania takes on an additional job as a hippology teacher and riding instructor for high school students at an agricultural college in Le Mans.
From 2018 on Tania plans and prepares herself to complete the ATE diploma, which is the French official professional qualification for equestrian tourism guides and to finish her BPJEPS training in the outdoor riding branch. She starts to prepare herself for the ATE entrance tests. She intends to enter the ATE training in the course of 2022. At the same time, she continues to work full-time as a German teacher at secondary schools in Le Mans.
2019-2020: Tania passes the CAER d’Allemand, French Teaching Degree for Secondary Schools in German in private education and goes through the final validation year as German teacher during the scholar year 2019-2020. She finally is granted tenure as a state German teacher in July 2020
2020: Tania resumes her activities as a foreign language trainer during the COVID 19 health crisis and develops an online training course for adults in French, German and English for foreign countries such as England or the United States. United. This concept is called "Learn Languages and have fun" !. She creates a dedicated website entirely in English and asserts her presence on social networks: she creates a Youtube channel, a Facebook page, an Instagram account. You can go and get an idea for yourself by clicking on the different icons on the right side of this this paragraph. Tania thus offers a range of free educational content for studying French, German and English. To learn more about this concept, you can click on the "Learn Languages" mind map at the bottom of the page or visit the page dedicated to this concept on this website.
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Tania’s ultimate goal is to combine horse-riding AND foreign languages learning , allowing the younger ones (and also the not-so-young ones) to learn foreign languages through their passion for horses and riding sports in general
Hence Skriva's motto: “One learns better when enjoying it”
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You can download Tania Zimen's Curriculum Vitae in French, German and English
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