I'm a junior at Yale University pursuing a double major in Linguistics and Theater. I have experience tutoring in a variety of subjects, but I'm particularly excited to help students with writing, critical reading, and SAT or ACT preparation. I had a strong support network of teachers and mentors throughout middle and high school, so I understand firsthand the importance of thoughtful, individualized educational enrichment. I seek to meet each student where they are in...
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I am an experienced and well-qualified essay coach, and a tutor in language arts and German. I also tutor students who are preparing for the SAT. I earned my B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an M.A. in German from UC Berkeley, where I taught college German and received training in foreign language pedagogy. I love to learn, I am drawn to travel, and the experiences I have had enrich my work as...
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I graduated from Beloit College in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in Health & Society and Theater Arts. I have a passion for travel and foreign languages. While in college, I spent a summer in Costa Rica and an exchange semester in Argentina. After graduating from college I lived in Switzerland for 9 months. There, I tutored private clients in ESL, while also sharpening my French and German language skills. I worked as a...
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I have had the opportunity to work with a broadrange of individuals, fromchildren to adults. For example, in the course ofteaching one semester (Sixth-grade) while at St. Helen's Catholic School (Southgate, CA) in theLos Angeles, California area, I had the opportunity to interact withchildren ofmanyethnic backgrounds. Later on Iworked for Professional Tutors of America asan Academic Tutor (Yorba Linda, CA). I was also employed by a local tutoring center, more specifically, The Enrichment Center II...
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I attend Barnard College of Columbia University, working towards a Psychology degree. I love connecting with people, and languages has always been my path towards doing so. Creative writing and English classes have helped me to connect with other authors and texts, and learning different languages allows me to do the same with different cultures. I have spoken French for 8 years, German for 4, and began to learn Spanish this past year. Tutoring is...
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After three years of tutoring students from kindergarten through high school and an adult in math, I have used and developed a teaching approach that values the student as a whole person, not just their test scores. I am patient, methodical, and understanding, and I work well with students who are willing to make an effort toward improving. I can tutor in the following subjects: - Math (elementary, middle-school, pre-algebra, algebra 1, algebra 2, geometry, and...
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After graduating summa cum laude from Whitman College (2019) with a double major in History and German Studies, I undertook a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English to students in Bad Homburg v.d. Hoehe. This was not my first, nor last experience as an educator. I've tutored Math, English (writing and as a foreign language), and German. I've taught as a German teacher at a private high school in Seattle, and helped to create an art...
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I have been teaching young people to speak German since I was twenty seven years old. From age twenty-one on, I have been learning German. After all of these years, learning and teaching are still part of what my students and I do every day, and I love it. I started speaking German in August of 1991. I was twenty-one years old, had a decent grasp of Spanish, despite not having had any formal training,...
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I'm an instructor with 5+ years of teaching and tutoring experience. I'm enthusiastic about helping students meet their own goals and develop useful skills. I began tutoring as an undergraduate, for history, French, German, and Latin. I also have extensive experience editing English essays (my own, those of my peers, and those of my students.) I spend a lot of time thinking about these subjects, and about how to help others understand them better. When...
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I am dedicated to creating a supportive and engaging learning environment where students feel confident to excel. My approach is tailored to each learner, breaking down complex ideas into simple, relatable steps. With a focus on building skills and self-assurance, I strive to make every session impactful and enjoyable. Together, we'll turn challenges into achievements.
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Education opens doors. It took me a long time to understand the powers of knowledge and sharing it but I can now affirm that bettering oneself through education is one of the biggest joys of life. I am a recent graduate of the University of Oregon in Political Science, International Relations and German. I am planning to attend Sciences Po Graduate School of Public Affairs located in Paris, France this coming fall. I have extensive...
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...many places throughout California. Studying abroad not only let me experience other cultures, it also showed me how much fun international travel can be. I definitely plan to travel abroad the next chance I get. I like hiking as well and do most of my hiking in and around Yosemite National Park. I also play video games as a hobby and while some might see this as a negative thing, I believe gaming in moderation...
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I'm an undergraduate at Columbia College. I love tutoring students in math, German, SHSAT, and SAT. I believe that I have good communication and pedagogical skills, and a firm understanding of the subject matter. Having come from Germany at the age of eleven, I know the frustration that can come with feeling overwhelmed by coursework. I performed well on standardized exams like the SHSAT and the SAT and can teach test-taking skills that will ultimately...
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I have always enjoyed working with people of all ages because there is so much to learn as we work and study together. I have studied and taught at university, particularly the psychology of learning to better understand how we learn things and grow. I speak three languages, French, English and German (plus a little bit of Hawaiian) and this has taught me a lot about how culture, words, and thinking influence each other. Basically,...
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...realia (props/objects and materials from everyday life), media, and physical connections such as writing, and encourage the students to produce their own work through writing samples, sample activities, bringing in texts or other resources that they enjoy working with, and various creative activities like drawing, painting, filmmaking, or other activities that they enjoy completing and that incorporates our subject matter. I work with students' specific needs by presenting an initial evaluation tests that assesses not...
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I am a professional actor, singer, vocal coach, and teacher. I am a bilingual native German speaker and am happy and excited to help you with your German and/or public speaking. I have a lot of experience in teaching people of any age and level, so everyone is welcome to contact me. ... I am happy and excited to teach anyone who is willing to learn and is curious. Everything else can be acquired and developed....
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Hi, I'm eager to work with you. I have degrees in German, history, and law. I am natively fluent in German and have successfully taken and passed the bar exam. I will help identify your needs and spend time getting to know you before we start, to ensure the best investment for your education. While I work with students of all ages, my expertise is with adults.
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I'm a Penn Stater with a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering currently working on a master's in Applied Statistics. Finding a way to distill and explain complicated topics is something I've always enjoyed, regardless of the domain. I'm a huge believer in the power of routines when it comes to long-term learning challenges, and as a tutor it is my mission to set students up with the tools they need to have sustainable success beyond our...
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As you have advanced through German courses, the material has gotten progressively more complex. Of course, anyone would expect such difficulties, for each course does in fact build upon those preceding it. However, the difficulties that face you as a German language student can be quite particular and often uniquely difficult among the language subjects taught in high school and college. In contrast to French and Spanish, the German language presents difficulties that far surpass the mastery of new conversational skills and the introduction of more complex grammatical constructions during subsequent language courses. The complexities of conjugation, declension, and the syntax of relative clauses are quite intense in comparison with the romance languages taken by other students. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed by such increasing difficulties in your course when German 3 tutoring can provide you with personalized review to help you succeed.
Contact Varsity Tutors today to find the perfect German language tutor to meet your specific needs and goals! Their educational directors are standing by to help you craft a student profile to attract the tutor that is most suited to you. Your potential tutor can view your course syllabus, proficiency level, past German scores, concerns, learning style, and more. They use this, alongside ongoing interactions with you, to create an individualized German tutoring plan that addresses your weaknesses, builds upon your strengths, and prepares you for your exam.
At this stage of your German learning, many of the topics covered in the preceding years are beginning to compound with increasing rapidity. The complex sentences being read and spoken are beginning to take forms that are quite strange to native English speakers. Depending on your grasp of the concepts covered in German 1 and 2, this accumulated knowledge can become frustrating. It is difficult to self-diagnose the exact topics on which you need to focus your attention in order to successfully move forward in your studies. However, such analysis is easily provided by a personal tutor, who is able to create a unique course of review to address your current German difficulties, as well as to help teach you the new content being presented in your class. German 3 sits at something of a crossroads in your language education.
Your instructor is flexible in their tutoring sessions. You can meet in person at a local shop or your own home. You are free to request face-to-face online tutoring if that makes things easier on you. Further, you can choose what your tutoring sessions focus on and set the pace of each one.
Your personal tutor can help you to prepare for the future, when things will be even more difficult and demanding. In future courses, you will be reading and speaking in a way that will require a firm grasp of German grammar and vocabulary. Advanced German classes, such as AP German, will present you with rigors that are both rewarding and quite difficult. In adulthood, it is always fulfilling to have a firm handle on a foreign language, giving you a particular skill and practical talent that is often rare among Americans. In addition, you can use this skill on your resume to gain access to potential jobs, such as translation.
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Recent German 3 Tutoring Session Notes
Today's session was to help the student prepare for his Mandarin final. He was given a master list of vocabulary, a list of radicals he needed to know, and his study guide. We spent half of our session reviewing his vocabulary. I would give him the pronunciation and he would write the character, how to pronounce the character with the correct tone, as well as the English translation. Out of 109 vocabulary words, he only struggled with seven. After a short break, we went over the radicals and how to break down a character into the radicals. We also continued on and worked on a section of reading comprehension in his study guide. He is able to read and answer the questions with no problems. I have full confidence that he is going to pass this exam with flying colors.
The student had a project to do for his Mandarin class at school. I helped him brainstorm what to say and then translate it into Chinese. Finally I helped him to lay out his presentation and work on how to present it.
In this class, I first tested the student's vocabulary, then we went over the vocabulary and grammar again. After that, he finished the reading comprehension in the sample questions. In the next class, we will do internet-based sample questions.
The student had a worksheet to fill out, which he worked on with minimal guidance from me. The hardest part for him was forming the characters, so I offered suggestions on stroke order. We then practiced using his new vocabulary in conversations about ourselves and our families and then he wrote some questions and answers about himself to practice writing sentences.
He was able to work on making sentences with the vocabulary from Chapters 2-3 and he did a wonderful job. He finished the news article on North Korea, where I introduced a few sentence structures and much new vocabulary. We discussed Chapter 10, starting with vocabulary and also some sentence structures. He had little problem with the text or example sentences. He also looked at the extra passage the textbook provided for reading comprehension practice. He also did a wonderful job. For next time, he will work on sentences for Chapters 4-5.
For this lesson, he learned tools in the kitchen such as pot, oven, refrigerator, frying pan etc. and utensils. I had him memorize all the vocab after lesson 1 and I tested him on it during lesson 2. The student is getting so much better pronouncing Pinyins and I love that he is interested in learning Chinese.
