Hilary studied, worked and lived in German-speaking countries from 2001 to 2010. She studied and worked in Germany in 1999 to 2001, then moved to Austria, and continued her Masters studies in Arts and Cultural Management in Vienna and has lived and worked there since 2001 (in both multinationals and the arts sector). She now splits her time between Hong Kong and Vienna, and is currently undergoing the Post-Grad Diploma - Professional Certificate for Teaching German as a Foreign Language at Tertiary Institutions Worldwide. (DAF UNTERRICHTEN DLL 6, Goethe Institut & Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany). Hilary has many years of English-tutoring experience and she has been teaching German as a private teacher since 4 years (both teenagers and working adults).