Steve Oakes is an experienced teacher, teacher trainer and language learner who has worked in numerous countries around the world including the UK, the US and Japan as well as various parts of Central Europe. He has been the Head of Teacher Training at International House Budapest since 1997 and is a co-author of Speakout, a general adult course from Pearson. He recently relocated to Sintra, Portugal, where he is working on learning a seventh foreign language.