Jamie - French tutor - Gorey
Jamie - French tutor - Gorey

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Jamie

  • Rate $48
  • Response 14h
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Jamie - French tutor - Gorey
  • 5 (10 reviews)

$48/h

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  • French
  • French speaking
  • French reading
  • French listening

Wexford native who lived five years in Lyon, offering French through conversation and real engagement with French music, writers, films and culture!

  • French
  • French speaking
  • French reading
  • French listening

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About Jamie

I'm a lover of learning generally and languages specifically - it started with Irish, a good few years ago now, when I spent four months of transition year in the Gaeltacht in Ring, in Waterford, and got quite fluent. It has become a bit of a thing for me since then: I spent six months in Japan, two years in Germany, and five years in France. French is easily my most comfortable language - somewhere around 12/18 months in I felt I could express myself quite comfortably, and around two years in I remember realizing that I could read most fiction pretty handily. Then the floodgates opened, as it were. France has a lot of independent publishers, and an awful lot of interesting intellectuals, who I'd be thrilled to share with an interested student. I still have a little accent, but small enough of a one to be quite confusing for the French. They'll understand me fully, but think I'm from Belgium, or Quebec, or some French-speaking place like that. I used to complain about my accent when I first arrived in France, thinking it would never fade, but gradually it did quite a bit, and a little accent is considered charming anyway.

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I provide plenty of details in my piano ad about my general approach to pedagogy which I invite you to have a look at for more information, but specifically with languages, the key is making your own sentences.

Don't get me wrong, we will look at grammar, and vocabulary flashcards, and coming up with mnemonics, and all the tricks you might like. However, there's no way around the fact that speaking is a real-time performance, and the quickest way to get better at it is to do it.

Languages aren't hard - feeling silly when you make bad sentences is hard. It gets easier with practice, though. You just need to keep going, and make more sentences. The trick to keep going is to find things in the language that you love doing - shows, talks, debates, films, podcasts, a friend who you talk only French with, a forum, a hobby, anything that is real and you love doing and you keep doing in the language.

I've done it with French, and I'd love to help you get started, and to speak lots and lots of French with you! And to show you all sorts of wonderful writers and thinkers and musicians that I collected during my time over there :)

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  • $48

Pack rates

  • 5 h: $240
  • 10 h: $480

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  • $48/h

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