"Hi! I'm Maddy (French, ESL, beginner Spanish). I've always been a language lover and started learning French at an early age. Although I grew up in the UK, I had extended family based in France with whom I often went to stay, which enabled me to develop bilingual fluency. I studied English Literature at Oxford University for a year or so, before moving to the U.S, where I switched to French. I graduated (4.0 with a French major and an award for the most outstanding student in the foreign language department), then taught for 17 years at Le Lycée Francais de Los Angeles, (both English as a foreign language to French kids and French as a foreign language to Americans).

Right now, I’m teaching French to high-school students one-on-one at a great alternative private school called Fusion Academy and am collaborating with a French Canadian author in my spare time on the English translation of his first novel that was published in French.

I have tutored extensively both in person and online and what I love most about teaching is helping people connect with and cultivate their intrinsic motivation, an ideal I am passionate about. My greatest strengths as a teacher are creativity and learner centered-ness (by which I mean attunement to students’ needs and feelings and emphasizing strengths and progress). I strongly appreciate the connection between confidence, motivation and success, so if choose to you work with me sensitivity, patience, and understanding are guaranteed!" less...