Award-Winning French 2 Tutors serving Santa Ana, CA

...in my life: England, USA, Nicaragua and Italy. I consider myself to be a global citizen and that colors everything that I do, including teaching and tutoring. I have been teaching Spanish for 14 years. I have taught both Spanish and English in London England. I enjoy helping students learn Spanish and expanding their vision of the world and the Spanish diaspora. In addition, I am an avid reader and writer. I have a broad...

Hello, my name is Sotonye Briggs. I am currently a junior at CSULB. My hobbies are drawing, reading, writing, learning new languages, traveling, poetry, math, music, and video games. I look forward to working with the students. We strive to help the student succeed. We make studying an easy process, incorporating the student's learning style making increasing success.

...I can't wait to utilize to help you thrive in academia and reach your full potential as a student! This past year I had the honor of being published for a personal essay I wrote on my experience with mental health! In my free time I like to go hiking in Malibu, meet up with friends over coffee, peruse the Rose Bowl flea market, make muffins while listening to my weekly podcasts, and curl up...

...We were finally allowed to be a family again outside of a visiting room, yet nothing felt the same. After such traumatic events my family struggled to regain our footing in this rat race that we call life, or at least thats how my mother described it. Placed on food stamps and disability, my mother did her best to raise four children with the help of two grandparents that had to come out of retirement...

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I have a great passion for learning, and look forward to sharing this passion with my students. I feel as if I succeed when my students do!

...and contemporary usage. (Sometimes textbooks age poorly in how they teach slang.) My pedagogical style is process-based and goal-oriented. I like students to set a goal (or several), collaborate with me on a process to achieve it, and then put the plan into action with individualized methodology and assessment. In my spare time, I work on fun Python coding projects, play the odd video game, read (currently working through Discworld), and dote on my pets.

...passionate about learning and teaching foreign languages, and I hope to share that with my students. In my experience students particularly enjoy (and benefit from) learning and exploring new cultures while learning the language itself. As the child of a teacher I am a strong believer in the importance of education and all of the opportunities it offers to students. I finished my MA in May with a thesis on French fairy tales, but I...

...to perform academically at their highest possible level. I also think it is important that learning is not just for one assignment or one test, but rather that it sticks with you to build a solid foundation of knowledge and confidence that you can carry forward. My favorite subjects to tutor include English, SAT test preparation, math, and psychology. My approach to tutoring is to meet the student where they're at and go from there....

...PSAT, SHSAT, and GRE -- I particularly love tutoring writing, and creative writing is a hobby of mine. My philosophy is that even when we are preparing for a standardized exam, we should always be relating the work to your passions, pursuits, and educational goals to make the work that much more meaningful. In my spare time, you'll often find me learning bits of new languages for fun or writing. I am currently fluent in...