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- New York, NY 10027 ( 26.4 mi )
- Expert French Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 12/2011
- Will travel up to 40 miles
- Rates from $40.00 to $80.00 /hr
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French is one of my top subjects! I have lived in France for some years and love the people and the culture. More to the point: I can teach not only French language, but also French history and culture, so that the student will feel amazingly at home in France when he or she visits that country.
Note please that there are surprises in French culture. Did you know that the finest general in all French history was... Joan of Arc? Did you know that the kindest Frenchman in all their history was the Marquis of LaFayette, who saved the US in the American Revolution? (He got us all our new ships, 80% of our gunpowder, and 70% of our artillery, all from the French court.)
I would note that I happen to have awards in French literary translation too.
Interested?
I hate to see students stuffed with words and ideas, as if they were thanksgiving turkeys.
I love to help a student understand that much of the truth is inside his own mind. We must teach her, or him, to explore his own instincts, and develop his own style, and philosophy.
My experiences are perhaps too wide for this enclosure. I have 5 degrees, in American history and world history and French and Spanish, plus experience in writing and publishing.
But my best experience involves my being able to take an overworked, frazzled student under deadline and teaching him or her how to pause, focus, and then get caught up and then get ahead. As Ben Franklin would say, we have to learn how to "make haste slowly." I teach a student to be calm, take a breath, and then go forward on his requirements -- in exactly the order that the situation requires.
