...knowing more than one language is an absolute necessity for an improved quality of life, and I try to impart this appreciation to all of my students. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, riding my bike, hiking, painting and knitting. I believe that personal encouragement and motivation is very important, to children and adults alike. I love my students and I love seeing them thrive under the right guidance! I am looking forward to...
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...where I lived for five years with my wife and where I taught English at a private language academy. I'm an easy-going guy who fully understands that school isn't always the easiest, greatest, most awesome thing there is. That's why I strive to give my teaching and tutoring a different feeling and structure than one might find in school. Other than academic stuff, I'm a musician, video gamer, and conversationalist who knows a little bit...
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...with the group Culture Connect. This group was an after school program at local elementary schools to help ESL students with completing schoolwork and aid in language comprehension. While I tutor English, German, and Art, I am most passionate about German Literature. In my experience, it has always been most productive to make sure a certain level of fun is incorporated into every lesson. I also make sure that lessons are dialogue heavy and a...
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...my passion for history, language, and travel to my tutoring and teaching. As an instructor for the History and Spanish & Portuguese Departments at the University of Arizona, and as a freelance English teacher in Germany, I have taught students of all ages, backgrounds, and interests for over a decade. In the history classes I teach, I ask students to think about how global developments in politics, economics, and science have shaped the lives of...
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...History. In addition, I went back to school for a Master in Business Administration later. I am excited about tutoring German and/or European History, either online or in person. I did this a lot back in Europe and worked very successfully with students. My last student was my own son whom I tutored from 2012-2016 in German so he does not lose it. In my "real" life job I am an Executive Assistant. I am...
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...I worked as a TA for both general and Organic Chemistry and I have taken courses in a vast majority of chemical fields including Organic, Inorganic, Analytical, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry and even Nanochemistry. I also took four years of high school German and four years of college German courses, and I enjoy finding new opportunities to practice my language skills. In addition to academics, I was a Division III football and baseball player throughout my...
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My name is Sebastian Almer and I'm a native Austrian currently living in the U.S. I am a student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell studying Psychology and have my sights set on a career in this field. I adore languages and am fluent in both German and English. Therefore I love helping enthusiastic German students perfect the language and get an insight on German, as well as Austrian, culture.
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...in Molecular Biology), I also have experience teaching technical German to adults that need to learn German for business purposes. No matter what age or level you're at, learning German should always be fun. Therefore my 1-1 sessions are custom-tailored to the individual, well-balanced between grammar and situational German. About myself: I'm easygoing and patient with my students, and I do believe that hard work and practice pays off. My hobbies are gardening, camping, and...
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...in German History from the university of Manchester. It was there, that I worked with the Brilliant Club charity, where I designed and taught classes to middle/high schools from disadvantaged areas. I have received scholarships to study abroad in Germany, first time in Hannover, the second time in Berlin. I have had my work published with support from the Sorbonne Unvieristy, and have presented my academic work in conferences worldwide. My passion for education comes...
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...knowledge to help others succeed in school and achieve their goals. What I enjoy most about tutoring are the moments of breakthrough with students - when they finally understand something they were struggling with or when they realize they can succeed. I've worked as a peer tutor at Auburn University for the last year, tutoring German, physics I and II, and statistics, and I achieved College Reading and Learning Association Level 1 certification. Besides helping...
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...such as Marketing of Innovations, Economics of Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Decision Making. I am currently very passionate about pursuing a career working with children and young adults, either mentoring or teaching, and my experiences volunteering with refugees in Berlin sparked within me a passion for this career path. I am very well versed in writing, reading comprehension, 2-D and 3-D art (digital and traditional), languages, and math up to Calculus I. I have several years...
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...teaching is about having patience for students who need more time to grasp particular concepts, while providing a caring and supporting atmosphere where they may blossom. Now, with a few years of teaching under my belt, I have developed a more defined teaching philosophy. Since having established clear teaching objectives through an emphasis on diversity, by providing an atmosphere of comfort and leaving students with a desire to continue learning, I learned to apply this...
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Hi! My name is Meridith and I am thrilled to be your tutor. Please do not ever believe the statement "German is hard to learn", because this is falsch (FALSE) - I have been a German teacher for 21 years and I can help you succeed in writing, understanding and speaking German!
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...in European Advanced Studies with a graduate level certificate. My latest degree is a Ph.D. in Law from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with an emphasis on European Law. Several years ago I started to work with children and came to love it. I gained my first experience in a child care facility as a classroom volunteer, later I extended it to tutoring in elementary school classrooms, and to leading scout groups of various...
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Current college student at East Carolina University. I am an intended Entrepreneurship major with a minor in German. I lived in Germany for three and a half years and would be happy to help others learn more about the language and culture.
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...is nothing better than being able to help students develop confidence and enjoyment in their own writing. When I'm tutoring in any subject, my focus is not on the completion of a short-term task, like a specific assignment or test; rather, my goal is always to use the task at hand to help the student become a better reader, writer, learner, and thinker. Above all, I aim to teach the student to teach themselves; the...
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...University of Virginia. I received my BA from Holy Cross in Economics and German and my Masters in German from UVa. While at University of Virginia I taught introductory and intermediate German to undergraduate students and also tutored students in essay writing and grammar in both English and German. This past year I taught an undergraduate seminar in Germany at Ruhr University Bochum on German Film. Outside of teaching and tutoring I enjoy playing basketball,...
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...school and becoming a Nurse Practitioner. I started tutoring students when I was in high school, in subjects ranging from Algebra to Writing to Music to German. When I left Germany and came to the United States for college, I became certified to tutor Calculus I and the German language at Johns Hopkins University through their student-to-student tutoring service, "The Learning Den." Tutoring has been such a joy of mine because of the students I've...
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Life is about learning, and learning is about having fun. I believe that the best way to help a student to excel in their studies is to help them relate to what they are studying. I like to show them how classes relate to their hobbies and interests and try to incorporate those interests as I teach. I am a graduate of Texas Tech University, I have a degree in Civil Engineering and German, and...
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I am a graduate of the University of Kansas. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and in Germanic Languages and Literature. I absolutely love to travel and experience different cultures! After graduating from KU in 2013, I spent a year in Northeastern Germany working as an au pair. I am most passionate about and have the most experience with German and English as a Second Language, however I am also very interested in...
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Unlike many other modern European languages that are taught in high school and college foreign language courses, German presents a particular set of challenges. German education requires you to work through a complex vocabulary, whose cognates are more distant from English than those found in languages like French and Spanish. Likewise, while grammar can be difficult in any foreign language, in German this is particularly the case given its complex inflections and clause structures. Now that you are in your fourth year of studies, all of these aspects have come together in a very difficult mixture of speech, reading, and translation. Rather than struggle through the many difficulties of this intense course, contact Varsity Tutors today to learn about the German 4 tutoring options available near you.
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A personal language tutor can be particularly helpful in a course like German 4, given the number of topics that are frequently addressed in any given assignment. Your tutor can help you to evaluate the specific issues that are causing you difficulties in your conversations and translations, assessing your current learning in light of the topics that you have covered in past years. By focusing in this way on the many grammatical topics that you have already learned and the relationship of these topics to your current studies, your tutor can help you to address any remedial needs that you might have in order to make your current work as easy as possible. It is no small matter to read authentic literature in a foreign language and, given the specific difficulties of reading and analyzing German literature, personal German 4 tutoring may be the best way to help you surmount these difficulties as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
Your instructor may provide personalized learning materials to help you achieve your goals. You might be told to watch German shows, listen to their music, view artwork, read literature, or otherwise immerse yourself in the culture. In addition, your tutor can serve as the perfect conversation partner. He or she can provide instant feedback on your grammar, pronunciation, and more to make sure that you aren't forming bad habits.
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Recent Vancouver German 4 Tutoring Session Notes
The student and I spent most of this time working on his paragraph for Mandarin. The topic was Chinese New Year and he had to write about the traditions, when it started, what animal this lunar year was, as well as how long it lasted. Most of the material he translated himself while I corrected his grammar and provided vocabulary he did not know. After he finished his paragraph, I had him read it out loud, and his intonation is getting better. His character writing is also improving, but he could use a little more work on his stroke order when writing characters.
In this class, we talked about the family. We learned the sentence structure "how many people are there in your family". Then they learned to identify different familial terms, such as mother, father, sister and brother. Then we learned to count from one to thirty. I also played their favorite Chinese songs for them.
The student had some homework from school he needed help with. It involved filling in some blanks in two dialogues. I explained what any unknown words meant and guided him to fill the blanks in correctly.
The student was very focused today, which was great to see. He studied for his dictation test and helped write a new sentence that he will copy each day during the week for extra practice. He worked hard in his workbook. I explained that I see my job as helping him become more independent and that he will learn better if he practices finding the answers himself.
We introduced the verb of location "zai" and practice using it when describing the location of objects. We continued to practice pronunciation and tones. We then finished the lesson by testing her listening skills.
Had a great first session with the student! We learned the four tones and PinYin as well as some basic Chinese characters. He did quite well as a beginner. We deed to practice more on the tones and PinYin.
