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10+ years
James
Reading original Latin manuscripts is central to James's paleography work at Yale, giving him a relationship with the language that goes well beyond grammar drills. He breaks down complex constructions — ablative absolutes, indirect discourse, purpose clauses — by connecting them to real passages fr...
Yale University
Current Undergrad, Humanities (focus on paleography); Math

Certified Tutor
6+ years
Noah
Four levels of Latin coursework gave Noah deep familiarity with declensions, conjugations, and the sentence structures that trip students up most — ablative absolutes, indirect statements, and purpose clauses. He approaches Latin translation almost like parsing code: breaking a sentence into its gra...
Duke University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

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Ruth
Ruth's University of Chicago English degree and SAT Subject Test preparation in Latin mean she's spent serious time with the language's grammar, vocabulary, and literary roots — not just skimming declension charts but actually working through how Latin sentence structure operates. Her high school te...
University of Chicago
M.S.Ed
University of Chicago
B.A. in English and Theatre

Certified Tutor
6+ years
Sarah
Sarah's liberal arts training across music, theology, and world religions means she's spent years reading texts where Latin isn't just a classroom subject — it's the language sacred music, liturgical history, and philosophical ethics were written in. That lived context makes teaching declensions and...
Yale University
Master of Arts, Sacred Music
Vassar College
Bachelor in Arts, Music

Certified Tutor
6+ years
Zachary
Zachary's PhD work at Harvard sits squarely at the intersection of German philosophy and classics, meaning he reads Latin not as a classroom exercise but as a daily tool for engaging with primary texts in their original language. He teaches all four levels and is especially sharp on the grammatical ...
CUNY City College
Bachelor in Arts, English
Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy, German

Certified Tutor
9+ years
Dennis
Dennis's Latin studies through AP level sit alongside his physics and math work at Princeton — an unusual combination that means he treats Latin grammar the way he treats a physics problem, breaking complex sentence structures into their component parts and solving them systematically. He's especial...
Princeton University
Bachelor of Science

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Paula
Paula's psychology and communication studies background means she's constantly bumping into Latin roots — in clinical terminology, rhetorical frameworks, and the academic vocabulary that underpins both fields. She leans on that familiarity to make vocabulary acquisition and grammatical patterns feel...
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor in Arts

Certified Tutor
7+ years
Charles
Charles teaches both Latin 1 and Latin 2 alongside a full slate of English grammar and literature courses, which means he's constantly working at the intersection of Latin's grammatical structures and their echoes in modern English. That dual focus sharpens his ability to walk students through conju...
University of Notre Dame
Bachelor in Business Administration, Finance

Certified Tutor
8+ years
Dylan
Studying Classics alongside Physics at Vanderbilt means Dylan reads Latin daily as part of his actual degree work — not as a side interest but as a core discipline. That dual training sharpens his ability to teach grammar as a logical system, walking students through subjunctive constructions, indir...
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor of Science, Physics

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Cassandra
Having taught Latin 1 through Latin 4, Cassandra covers everything from first-declension nouns to translating Virgil and Cicero at an advanced level. Her literary training means she doesn't just parse grammar mechanically — she unpacks how word order, meter, and rhetorical figures create meaning in ...
Harvard University
Bachelor in Arts, Comparative Literature
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