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.

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 grammatical components before assembling meaning. That systematic method makes even dense passages from Caesar or Virgil feel manageable.

Having tutored high school Latin students while studying English and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy knows how to bridge the gap between memorizing paradigm charts and actually reading Latin with confidence. She zeroes in on building the kind of grammatical intuition — recognizing how a subjunctive signals purpose, or why word order shifts in poetry — that turns translation from a grind into something that clicks.

Classics majors don't just dabble in Latin — Rebecca is building her entire undergraduate degree around the language and its literary tradition, covering all four levels plus AP. That depth means she can walk a first-year student through basic conjugation patterns and then, in the next session, tackle the syntactic complexity of reading Vergil or Cicero in the original. Rated 5.0 by students.

Having studied Latin intensively through advanced levels at Yale, Malina treats the language as a system of interlocking patterns rather than a list of endings to memorize. She digs into how ablative absolutes, indirect discourse, and subjunctive clauses actually function in passages from Caesar, Virgil, and Cicero — so students learn to read Latin, not just decode it.

Declining nouns and conjugating verbs is just the entry point — Kelsey's BA in Latin means she's spent years reading Virgil, Ovid, and Cicero in the original and understands the grammar at a structural level. She breaks down tricky constructions like ablative absolutes and indirect discourse by connecting them to how Latin authors actually used them, making the language feel purposeful instead of purely mechanical.

Four years of Latin through the AP level — plus National Exam Gold Awards every single year — gave Hanna deep fluency with everything from third-declension nouns to the subjunctive constructions that trip up most students. She teaches translation not as a word-by-word puzzle but as a process of recognizing grammatical structures, making passages from Vergil and Caesar feel approachable rather than overwhelming. Rated 5.0 by students.

While Latin isn't Tara's primary subject, her science and medical coursework has given her deep familiarity with Latin roots, prefixes, and terminology that form the backbone of the language. She approaches Latin grammar with the same systematic, pattern-based thinking she uses in her science studies — breaking declensions and conjugations into logical structures rather than rote memorization lists.

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.

Skylar took Latin through the graduate level at Johns Hopkins and earned a 5 on the AP Latin exam, so she knows the language from first-declension basics all the way through Vergil and Caesar at an advanced level. She breaks down complex constructions — ablative absolutes, indirect discourse, subjunctive clauses — by connecting grammar to the logic of what a Roman author is actually trying to say. That approach turns translation from guesswork into a skill students can repeat on any unseen passage.

Studying through all four levels of Latin while majoring in psychology and minoring in neuroscience at Texas A&M, Paris knows the language from both the humanities and the scientific side — Latin roots show up constantly in her neuroscience coursework, which keeps the vocabulary alive and practical. She teaches grammar by building systematic habits around case identification and verb parsing, so students develop the kind of methodical reading process that holds up when sentences get long and layered. Rated 5.0 by students.

An applied mathematics degree and a computer science master's give Daniel an unusual toolkit for Latin — he approaches grammar the way a programmer approaches syntax, where every case ending and conjugation follows strict rules that either compile correctly or produce a visible error. That debugging mindset turns translation exercises into logic puzzles, making it easier for students to spot why a sentence breaks down and how to fix it. Rated 5.0 by students.

Studying all four levels of Latin while pursuing a history degree at Dartmouth means Vivian reads the language where it actually lived — in the political speeches, legal codes, and historiographical texts that shaped the ancient world. She brings that context into every lesson, so students learning subjunctive mood or fourth-declension nouns can see those structures doing real work in passages by Caesar or Cicero rather than in disconnected grammar exercises.