🍯I am a French native speaker, teaching adults from A1 to C1 levels
🍯 I graduated in France (Master in foreign languages, business and international affairs in the University of Metz)
🍯 I hold the Advanced Certificate from Cavilam – Alliance Française
🍯 I am the founder of a French conversation group in Ireland with almost 1,000 members to date (since 2014)
🍯9 years in export, customer service and logistics in Champagne industry and bio-medical sector
🍯 I know the feeling of landing in a country where you don´t understand the language and struggle to express yourself !
🍯 I speak English, Spanish and Portuguese.
What types of classes I offer :
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• You would like to understand at least basic French cause you like the sound of it ? I will help you:
🥐 Discover the language and get familiar with the sounds
🥐 Develop your speaking skills by gaining confidence and lose the fear of making mistakes
• You already know a bit of French but you would like to be more fluent and/or you struggle in those situations :
🥐 At the till, at the hairdresser´s, at the restaurant, at the airport…
🥐 Feel comfortable with your French-speaking in-laws in family reunions! :)
🥐 You want to travel to a French-speaking country and want to meet the locals with some French sentences
🥐 You have French colleagues/friends and you don´t know how to interact with them in their language, at work or during nights out and gatherings
🥖 We will make together a list of subjects you would like to talk about, according to your taste and needs.
🥖 I will correct you as we speak, orally and in the chat. I will interrupt you with corrections only if you prefer that way, otherwise I let you speak and correct after.
🥖 I will help you improve pronunciation and vocabulary
🥖 We will work together to achieve your ultimate objective: speak with confidence !
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Before I became a teacher, I worked almost 10 years in the industry field, as an Export coordinator/Customer service representative/Logistics and warehouse coordinator/Trilingual order fulfilment specialist so I know all about business-related needs (B2B and B2C) and typical business conversations!
👔 You are an executive in need of refining your French for business purpose (negociating, express your disagreement, networking etc)
👔 You are a manager with career progression goals
👔 You are a professional with specific needs in business French language
👔 You are a job-seeker willing to find your dream job but where French is required.
With tailor-made lessons you can expect custom approach and role plays in order to :
☎️ Prepare for a job interview, talk about your CV
☎️ Handle a business call (complaints, take a message etc)
☎️ Organise a trip to France (book hotels, restaurants etc)
☎️ Express your opinion (agree/disagree)
---EXAM PREPARATION---
🎯 Prepare for DELF exam, from A1 to B2
🎯 I will help you improve all the skills you need to succeed in all the parts of the exam :
📚 Reading (comprehension) : news articles, recipes, travel brochures…
🎧 Listening (comprehension): dialogues, songs, movie trailers…
🖍️ Writing (production) : essays, articles, letters…
🎤 Speaking (production): guided conversations, role plays and expression of a point of view…
For Exam preparation classes I use the CEFRL (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) to track your progress and make sure you reach your learning goals and pass your exam!
Sometimes the most difficult part is to keep the motivation. Count on me to keep you on track and acquire the best exam prep methodology to succeed 😊
Our first class will be to :
🎯 Analyse your needs
🏹 Determine your level and your objectives
👨 Get to know you and your hobbies, in order to prepare interesting classes for you
I am very laid-back and with me you will feel comfortable speaking, however I expect commitment from you, as well as homework to be done and ready for correction at the beginning of next class.
If you need to cancel a class, please do so at least 24 hours in advance.