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I am a native speaker of French with 14 years teaching experience, having taught both in the United States and in France as part of my initial career. I undertook a career change in 2007-2008 but have continued to work as a French language tutor occasionally since then.
Said B.
I am a native speaker of French with 14 years teaching experience, having taught both in the United States and in France as part of my initial career. I undertook a career change in 2007-2008 but have continued to work as a French language tutor occasionally since then.
Subjects
French
French
Teaching levels
- А1 (Beginner)
- А2 (Pre-Intermediate)
- B1 (Intermediate)
- B2 (Upper-Intermediate)
- Business language
- C1 (Advanced)
- C2 (Proficiency)
- College / University
- Conversation language
- For study abroad
- Grammar
- Native speaker
- Tutor for adults
Lessons may take place
- At students’ place:
New York, NY
- 10004 Lower Manhattan
- 10009 Alphabet City
- 10280 Battery Park City
- 10002 Bowery
- 10013 Chinatown
- 10007 Civic Center
- 10002 Cooperative Village
- 10009 East Village
- 10002 Essex Crossing
- 10005 Financial District
- 10012 Greenwich Village
- 10013 Hudson Square
- 10017 Little Australia
- 10013 Little Fuzhou
- 10013 Little Italy
- 10002 Loisaida
- 10002 Lower East Side
- 10014 Meatpacking District
- 10012 NoHo
- 10012 Nolita
- 10012 SoHo
- 10038 South Street Seaport
- 10003 South Village
- 10007 Tribeca
- 10002 Two Bridges
- 10014 West Village
- 10048 World Trade Center
- 10001 Midtown
- 10019 Columbus Circle
- 10036 Diamond District
- 10010 Flatiron District
- 10119 Garment District
- 10001 Herald Square
- 10001 Koreatown
- 10010 Madison Square
- 10001 NoMad
- 10018 Silicon Alley
- 10018 Theater District
- 10001 Times Square
- 10023 West Side
- 10001 Chelsea
- 10018 Hell's Kitchen
- 10001 Hudson Yards
- development
- 10023 Lincoln Square
- 10023 Manhattan Valley
- 10025 Penn South
- 10025 Pomander Walk
- 10025 Riverside South
- 10023 Upper West Side
- 10021 East Side
- 10029 Carnegie Hill
- 10003 Gramercy Park
- 10010 Kips Bay
- 10021 Lenox Hill
- 10016 Murray Hill
- 10009 Peter Cooper Village
- 10016 Rose Hill
- 10009 Stuyvesant Square
- 10009 Stuyvesant Town
- 10021 Sutton Place
- 10017 Tudor City
- 10017 Turtle Bay
- 10003 Union Square
- 10021 Upper East Side
- 10010 Waterside Plaza
- 10028 Yorkville
- 11105 Queens
- 11433 Addisleigh Park
- 11692 Arverne
- 11101 Astoria
- 11358 Auburndale
- 11360 Bayside
- 11360 Bay Terrace
- 11691 Bayswater
- 11357 Beechhurst
- 11694 Belle Harbor
- 11426 Bellerose
- 11377 Boulevard Gardens
- 11697 Breezy Point
- 11435 Briarwood
- 11693 Broad Channel
- 11354 Broadway–Flushing
- 11411 Cambria Heights
- 11354 Chinatown
- 11356 College Point
- 11368 Corona
- 11362 Douglaston–Little Neck
- 11369 East Elmhurst
- 11691 Edgemere
- 11373 Elmhurst
- 11691 Far Rockaway
- 11001 Floral Park
- 11355 Flushing
- 11375 Forest Hills
- 11365 Fresh Meadows
- 11385 Fresh Pond
- 11385 Glendale
- 11004 Glen Oaks
- 11693 Hammels
- 11423 Hollis
- 11414 Howard Beach
- 11101 Hunter's Point South
- 11372 Jackson Heights
- 11432 Jamaica
- 11432 Jamaica Estates
- 11432 Jamaica Hills
- 11415 Kew Gardens
- 11367 Kew Gardens Hills
- 11354 Koreatown
- 11413 Laurelton
- 11368 LeFrak City
- 11434 Locust Manor
- 11120 Long Island City
- 11378 Maspeth
- 11422 Meadowmere
- 11379 Middle Village
- 11694 Neponsit
- 11005 North Shore Towers
- 11416 Ozone Park
- 11365 Pomonok
- 11355 Queensboro Hill
- 11101 Queensbridge
- 11427 Queens Village
- 11427 Queens West
- 11374 Rego Park
- 11418 Richmond Hill
- 11385 Ridgewood
- 11434 Rochdale Village
- 11691 Rockaway
- 11693 Rockaway Beach
- 11694 Rockaway Park
- 11422 Rosedale
- 11697 Roxbury
- 11412 St. Albans
- 11694 Seaside
- 11433 South Jamaica
- 11420 South Ozone Park
- 11413 Springfield Gardens
- 11101 Sunnyside
- 11101 Sunnyside Gardens
- 11416 The Hole
- 11357 Whitestone
- 11368 Willets Point
- 11421 Woodhaven
- 11377 Woodside
- 11237 Wyckoff Heights
- At tutors' place:
- No
- Online:
- No
About:
I have experience teaching both French and ESL. My first teaching job was teaching English to high school students in a suburb of Paris. Thereafter, the bulk of my experience has been in a community college setting in the Boston area, at a private language school in Lyon, France, and in a variety of adult education programs with some private tutoring.
I believe my greatest strength is my ability to genuinely and passionately engage in meaningful communication in the target language with my students. How this comes about is a complex social interaction involving planned instruction, deliberate and purposeful guidance, and the ability to respond to emerging occasions. I think the institutional setting also plays a very important role in this process.
I have an explicit knowledge of the structure of the French language, the ability to convey all notions that relate to the use and structure of the language, the capacity to evaluate individual language needs, as well as the ability to design and implement student-specific instructional goals. That said, one of the maxims I stand by as a teacher and learner is that "you learn what you do," meaning that if what you do is analyze language structure, then you learn to analyze language structure. If what you do is sit in class and listen, then you have learned to sit in class and listen. If what you do is converse in the target language, then that is also what you learn.
- Education:
- Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, Master’s Degree, 1995
- Age:
- 50+
- Experience:
- more than 10 years
Tutor's calendar
Here are the tutor's free hours for lessons with new students. The information about the available time slots may change every hour in real time. That is why you have to discuss the exact time with a tutor