Nicolas A.
- Albuquerque, NM 87104 ( 6.2 mi )
- Expert German Tutor
- Male Age 31
- Member since: 05/2017
- Will travel up to 15 miles
- Rates from $40 to $45 /hr
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On-line
In-Home
In-Group
- Also Tutors: Spanish
My comments on tutoring German : My mother is from German and raised me bilingual, so I've been speaking German my whole life. I also spent two years living in Dresden, Germany.
I am a firm believer in the immersion style of learning languages. Understanding the grammar and acquiring a decent vocabulary are of course indispensable, but from personal experience learning a variety of languages, I've found that simply speaking is the best way to learn. We don't learn languages to perform well on tests, we learn them to communicate, and to see the world through a different culture's cognitive perception!
I've been tutoring many friends or meeting 1 on 1 with University students to help them with English, German, and Spanish for about 4 years. Often, these have been unofficial language-exchange scenarios; for instance, I would meet with someone with whom I would speak for half an hour in English, then half an hour in Spanish (or whichever language it happened to be). This can be a very challenging and very exciting method of learning, and I believe it is the mo ... read more