THE FOUNDERS

Dover Language School was founded in 1992 (20 years ago now!), under the leadership of Peter Dohár, Kálmán Hencsei, and Lajos Verasztó.

Peter Dohar is a teacher of English and Hungarian. He has been working as an English teacher and organizer at adult education since 1979.
 

Kalman Hencsei is a teacher of physics and mathematics, also an economist and a system organizer. He has been involved in adult education since 1992.
 

Lajos Veraszto studied at the Hungarian National School of Film and Dramatic Arts, then he took his Master’s Degree from English and Hungarian Literature.

The school’s leaders realized (well before the rest of the country) the importance of language mastery. They also recognized that languages could and should be well-taught and well-learned. Lajos Verasztó, an expert in Hungarian and English, had been teaching and organizing language courses for adults since 1971. Similarly qualified, Peter Dohár has worked with Lajos Verasztó since 1979. Kálmán Hencsei, a physics and mathematics teacher, economist, and systems operator, joined the partnership in 1992.

In 1991, after Lajos Verasztó returned from America, he and Kálmán Hencsei published the book Kis Angol Nyelvtan (Little English Grammar), which Péter Dohár wrote with Lajos's assistance. The book remains Hungary's most popular and most useful language teaching tool even today. It has already become legendary. All over the country, people quote Péter Dohár's "It is easy to take Kate to dance" sentence variations and his story with a razor, or Lajos Verasztó's "Have you ever been to Tótkomlós?" question and the line “He had it comin’ ” from Chicago.

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, others have tried to steal the language book's title and program. They have even copied the system and the style, though with admittedly less success. For their part, the authors still have an enormous amount of teaching material to arrange and publish. They have put off work on a sequel, however, devoting their attention primarily to running the company and launching the school’s e-learning program.

The Dover Language Centre leaders undertake their work not from a profit standpoint. Humanism, optimism, and rationalism (the founders' unique outlook and sense of humour) determine the company's spirit, whereas the conscientious teachers and staff have contributed fundamentally to the school's prestige. With excellent teachers and a harmoniously integrated administrative team, the founder's philosophy (or working model) has succeeded well. 

In January 2010 Dover Language Centre was awarded the János Pilinszky Commemorative Plaque for its merits and achievements in the fields of Culture and Education. 

DOVER LANGUAGE CENTRE IS AN
ACKNOWLEDGED SUPPORTER OF THE
NATIONAL OLYMPIC TEAM OF HUNGARY 

THE SCHOOL WHERE MEMBERS OF THE
NATIONAL OLYMPIC TEAM OF HUNGARY HAVE BEEN IMPROVING THEIR LANGUAGE SKILLS