French lessons in France

Charlotte is a superb instructor. I took classes with her at her home for several months to improve my public speaking skills. During each session, Charlotte helped me work on my tone and delivery through various public speaking exercises. Charlotte asked me to prepare short written assignments before our meetings, so that I could practice delivering my script using various speaking techniques during the class. For these assignments, Charlotte was very engaged and made sure that the assignments would assist me in my specific professional goals. She did this by tailoring the subject matter to my professional work - mostly legal and political matters - and she pushed me to consider what I wanted to achieve from my audience with each speaking opportunity. Charlotte, however, is not only a skilled professional. She is also a tremendously kind, energetic and dynamic person to work with. She made me feel comfortable sharing my vulnerabilities, which made the process of receiving constructive feedback a fun and welcomed experience. She encouraged me to practice my public speaking in French - which is not my first language - and made me feel at ease. She is kind, understanding and an incredibly nice person. If you are looking for a professional who is dedicated to helping you improve, welcomes your goals and ideas, and who is a pleasure to meet with each week - then look no further than Charlotte.

Jade is a truly excellent teacher of the French language with whom I have been having lessons for over a year. She’s is not only a native French speaker, but holds degrees in Linguistics, Teaching and Business, and has significant experience of teaching French over many years. The benefit of this is that she is able to effortlessly teach at any level, with a focus on actually speaking the language in conversation. We have had discussions about things as simple as ordering food in a restaurant to subjects as complex as planning application submissions and urbanism rules (I am an architect). I am certainly not a natural linguist, but through her teaching I have gone from someone who was nervous about ordering a croissant in French, to gaining the confidence to deal with the complex language found in the workplace, and in day-to-day life in France. I would highly recommend Jade, whether you are visiting Paris for a short holiday and want to brush up on some vocabulary, or have moved here permanently and want to broaden your command of the French language.

I had about 12 lessons with Rose over the course of three weeks. Each lesson was two hours long and was in a small group of three of us--me and my two teenage daughters. We had a great time and learned a lot. Rose was wonderful. She was very reliable and came prepared with a good mix of learning material for us every day. She always had challenging material for us to practice on, but she mixed it up with easier songs and videos and games so we could rest our brains when we became tired from focusing for so long. As you can imagine, having her students be a mom and two teenage daughters wasn't always easy for Rose. We have our own family dynamics and she might have felt awkward at times, but she managed us very well. One of my daughters is very shy and Rose was extremely patient and kind with her. I highly recommend Rose as a tutor. And, I highly recommend encouraging your friends and family to join you for lessons if you are at about the same level of language experience. We had a lot of fun and our French improved a great deal.