Award-Winning Latin Tutors
serving Salem, OR

I am a graduate of Reed College with a degree in Classics. I came to Portland five years ago all the way from New York city and fell in love with the community and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. I worked as a peer tutor in high school and college, and have tutored English, Math, Reading, Writing, Attic Greek, Latin, and Humanities. I also spent five years as a Hebrew School teacher where I worked with elementary age children teaching basic Hebrew and Jewish studies. I'm passionate about tutoring because I believe every student can achieve any academic goal they set their mind to as long as they are given the tools for success. I aim to turn every "I can't" into "I know I can." I want to instill in my students a confidence in their own academic abilities and a true love of learning. I like to work with a student's unique skills to help them master new or difficult material. My ultimate goal is to help my students truly comprehend the material, and be able to apply what they have learned when encountering new problems and questions. When I'm not working I spend my time hiking at the Sandy River Delta with my husky puppy, Kili, or whipping up new vegan recipes. I love to read, especially modern fiction and historical biographies, and try to travel as much as I am able; my most recent trip was to Italy, and this winter I am heading South to the Antarctic.

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 from Vergil, Caesar, and Cicero so the syntax starts to feel intuitive.

Spanning Latin through AP level alongside Spanish, Italian, and German, Jamie brings a polyglot's instinct for how Latin's grammar echoes across the language families it shaped — making case endings and conjugation patterns feel like familiar territory rather than abstract rules. His approach leans on comprehensible input and story-driven immersion, so students absorb vocabulary and syntax through context-rich reading rather than isolated memorization. A Master's in Special Education also means he's skilled at adapting pacing and methods to fit how each learner actually processes new material.

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 precision needed for dense philosophical and literary passages — ablative constructions, purpose clauses, and the kinds of nested relative clauses that make students' eyes glaze over until someone unpacks the logic holding them together.

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 the original text.

Holding a Master's degree in Latin, Catherine doesn't just teach the language — she lives in its literature, grammar, and history at a level most tutors can't match. She covers every level from Latin 1 through AP, with particular strength in guiding students from early declension patterns into reading authentic prose and poetry with real confidence. Rated 5.0 by students, she also teaches Greek, giving her the kind of cross-classical perspective that illuminates how Latin syntax and vocabulary function within the broader ancient world.

Studying Dante in Bologna under a leading scholar meant David wasn't just translating Italian — he was working backward through the Latin literary tradition that shaped every line of the *Commedia*. That immersion, combined with his coursework in philosophy and European history, gave him a reader's intuition for how Latin syntax builds meaning across long, layered sentences. He covers Latin 1 and 2 and holds a 5.0 rating.

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 teaching background gives her a practical sense of where students get tripped up on things like verb conjugations and case identification, and she builds lessons that make those sticking points click. Rated 4.9 by students.

As a Classics major at Carleton who aspires to teach high school Latin full-time, Emma has spent years immersed in the language — not just grammar drills, but reading original texts alongside Ancient Greek and the historical contexts that bring both languages to life. She covers all four levels plus AP Latin, and her weekly tutoring at a nearby high school means she's constantly refining how she explains everything from first-year noun declensions to the subjunctive constructions that trip up advanced students.

Physics training builds a habit of reading equations as sentences — every symbol has a role, every operation has a reason — and Cory applies that same structural decoding to Latin grammar, where case endings and verb forms function like variables in a well-defined system. He's not a classicist, but his 4.9 rating across dozens of subjects reflects someone who can break any rule-driven discipline into logical, learnable steps, which is exactly what first- and second-year Latin students need when declension tables start to blur together.

An English degree and a Master's in Acting mean Joseph has spent years dissecting language from the inside — scanning meter, breaking down rhetoric, and performing texts where every word's Latin origin carries weight. He brings that same close-reading instinct to Latin grammar, treating each sentence as a script to be decoded through its cases, tenses, and clause structure. Rated 5.0 by students.

Philosophy and Latin are deeply entangled — Adam's degree means he's spent years encountering Latin terminology, logical structures, and the classical texts where Western philosophical traditions actually originated. He teaches Latin 1 through 3 with a focus on how grammatical concepts like subjunctive mood and indirect discourse carry philosophical nuance, so students learn to read with precision rather than just decode words. His background in Greek reinforces that classical-languages fluency.

Danny's music education background puts him in constant contact with Latin — choral repertoire from Renaissance masses to sacred motets is written in it, and understanding the text means understanding the grammar underneath. He teaches Latin 1 through 3 with a focus on how verb forms and noun cases shape meaning in real passages, not just fill-in-the-blank exercises. His 1450 SAT composite reflects the kind of close-reading precision that carries over into translating Latin prose.