Gabriele Stobbe

As a native of D'sseldorf, Germany, Gabriele Stobbe started her professional career as a kindergarten and art teacher. She subsequently decided to pursue proficiency in foreign languages and lived in France and Spain for several years. Travels with her husband took her to South America and South Africa, where she started her undergraduate degree at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, completing it at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

After years of teaching languages in high schools and for the Bayer Corporation, she formed her own company to provide language services and private tutoring in German, French, and Spanish.

A move to Washington, D.C., brought prestigious assignments at the Goethe Institute, the Foreign Service Institute for the Department of State, and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (Washington, D.C.).

Gabriele's lifelong passion has been to provide effective learning materials that will assist students throughout the critical early stages of their language learning.