Award-Winning German Tutors in Rocklin, CA

...will make sure your writing stands out as an indicator of high intelligence and exceptional academic promise. In German, I will help you speak and master a challenging language that forms an excellent foundation for any college or graduate school application. Together we will tackle verb tenses, word order, and complex adjective endings- or any...

...base in English, German, and History amongst other topics. I endeavor to make my tutoring sessions not only useful, but fun by incorporating the individual interests my students in my lessons and tailoring our sessions around their needs and wants. When I'm not teaching, I keep myself busy with gardening, hiking, guitar playing, folk music...

...to finish with a doctoral degree in Religious Studies. My undergraduate degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Studies. I grew up in the Sacramento Valley, but I have lived in Boston and the Pacific Northwest. With a strong background in the humanities, I am an excellent tutor for writing, communication, and verbal reasoning...

...as a tutor I see myself as a guide, my job is to get you excited about the topic so that you begin to ask questions and piece together the picture yourself. My interests include board games, video games, science fiction/fantasy, fiction writing, language, ballroom dance, and most anything having to do with science.... I find that working on gaining a full perspective of what the student is struggling with is key. If I can dig down and figure out what is causing the work to be so hard, and fix that, it cleans up multiple issues at once and empowers them to complete problems on their own.

...questioning rather than accepting, being critical rather than passive. This has helped enormously with learning. When I question something, it deepens my interest and my involvement with an intellectual matter. When I tutor I do not see myself as a master with knowledge to impart to students, but rather, I am a facilitator for students...

...arts, and I have had experience in almost every art field (3 years of piano, 4 years of ballet, drama lessons (at a private academy in 9th grade), community theater, speech and debate, and art history (one of my two minors). One of my favorite jobs was as a German and French tour guide at...

...my education at Brigham Young University where I got my bachelor's degree in communication disorders with the intent to pursue a masters degree and become a Speech-Language Pathologist. My professional background has helped me to develop as a language teacher because of my added coursework in language structure and grammar, phonetics and phonology, and function...

...experience is with college students, but I enjoy the challenges of working with all levels of learning. I earned my Ph.D. from Georgetown University in German Studies in 2012, and my MA from the University of Chicago in the Humanities. My main areas of expertise are in German and English language and literature, including an...

...my students), and have also developed and organized study abroad programs, German curricula, and language programs at the college level. I was born and raised in Chicago, but my German is fluent and native-level, which can be really helpful to students whose first language is English: I can explain the nuances of German to them...

...to understand a new culture is to understand that culture's language. My personal goal is to become fluent in seven foreign languages, so I can treat patients from many different regions of the world. I enjoy doing many activities that keep me outdoors: hiking, biking, camping, fishing, running, etc. due to me being an Eagle...