French - Improver
This course is ideal for:
a) those who have done LFF Beginners 1, 2 and 3 units
b) those who did French to GCSE/O Level a long time and who have forgotten a LOT but not so much that they want to go back to the absolute basics (because they have perhaps been using these – saying your name, buying and ordering food, getting directions etc – fairly confidently on holiday in the intervening years)
c) those who want to revise their present tense in a variety of useful situations before going on to do other tenses soon
This course is also ideal for those who want a teacher with a flexible approach to lesson dates and delivery; because my groups are always very small we can play around with the times/dates/levels/even language to suit the kind of people who enquire the most. It is also possible to Zoom in to a couple of lessons from your holiday home/boat if you really need to!
I am free all day on a Tuesday and can teach either French from Beginners 1 all the way up to Advanced Plus 3 or Spanish from Beginners 1 to Intermediate 1 (or even German up to A Level, albeit not with LFF who don’t offer this language) at any point between 8.30am and 5.30pm. Please feel free to enquire about ANYTHING as I am here to help you with your language needs.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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