Samn J.
- Portage, MI 49024 ( 38.4 mi )
- Male Age 33
- Member Since: 04/2014
- Will travel up to 30 miles
- Rates from $15.00 to $25.00 /hr
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- Also Tutors: Russian, Latin, German
Language tutoring from a successful polyglot and linguist
I recently graduated from the University of Michigan where I received a degree in music composition. I also have a long standing fascination with language that I nurtured by studying 6 languages at the University; those being German, Russian, Polish, Old English, French, and Hittite. I have also independently studied Gothic, Old Norse, Norwegian, Danish, Sanskrit, Latin, and Old Church Slavonic. I intend to use these skills to pursue a doctorate in Indo-European studies, a field of linguistics focused on the development of the Indo-European family of languages, to which all of the above languages belong. Although my degree is not in Linguistics, I have taught myself the technical jargon necessary to read specialist texts, and have recently benefited from the mentorship of Benjamin Fortson, an Indo-Europeanist who wrote the standard introductory textbook for the field. The success of ... read more