About Me

Hello! I'm New York City born and raised. I graduated from the University of Chicago last year with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations. I am developing my own teaching methods to evolve traditional East Asian and French language acquisition, and to do this I need even more experience. My course of study has been directed at learning as much as I can about the culture, economy, and history of East Asia, China and Japan in particular. I view myself as someone who is entrepreneurial, collegial, individually motivated to produce high quality work, as well as foster a love of the subject which I teach. I am compassionate and enjoy working with both children and adults. I believe I have something to learn from everyone I meet. I have experienced a variety of textbooks and language teaching methods from elementary to collegiate. I have been taught by professors that have textbooks used around the country, as well as some considered to be experts in their field including Hiroyoshi Noto, Guy Alitto, and Edward Shaughnessy. I have 3 years private tutoring experience in Chinese and Japanese language. I know more than the 2000 characters required for proficiency in reading and writing, both in Japanese and Chinese (simplified and traditional character sets), a total of about 5700 characters. so I can help you no matter your age or proficiency level. I spent seven years of grade school learning French, culminating in an advanced literary French class. I am familiar with spoken and written French, and a variety of textbooks and teaching methods. I believe it's important for a student to get a deep familiarity with the complexity of French grammar before advancing to any other point. I've maintained a high degree of fluency: I spent two and a half years tutoring two middle schoolers from France in bible studies, and some of our lessons were conducted completely in French.

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