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Hello everyone! My name’s Alessandra and I’m 34 and I’m a free lance tutor and translator since 2006. I was born in Italy and I spent part of my childhood and life in France, so French and Italian are my native languages. I love teaching and since I graduated I’ve been teaching Italian, French and English and made lots of friends. I’ve been teaching online for 10 years now and offline for almost 11 years (since I graduated at the beginning of 2005). I am a student myself; I have been studying Spanish for 4 years.

General Spanish, for adults and for children. Spanish to help school Spanish Spanish for bussiness Spanish for health Spanish for DELE Exams all the levels, including C2.

I started teaching in 2012, giving private face-to-face lessons. In 2013, I did a placement in a language school in Poland, helping children practise German and English. I started working for Language Trainers in 2014. Since then, I have been giving online and face-to-face lessons for adults from many different countries, of different ages and with various reasons for learning German. I enjoy meeting new people and helping them with their language needs. In October 2016, I completed a Goethe-Institut correspondence course of teaching German as a foreign language. My final mark was 'very good'.

I have been teaching Dutch and Spanish to people from 6 till 76 years from more than 30 different countries in the last 8 years.

I am from Peru, which is where I started my career in teaching. For nearly five years I taught Spanish as a Second Language to American young adults who were preparing to serve Spanish-speaking missions in South America. Additionally, I was a Spanish editor. I developed great attention to detail and excelled in the correct and elegant use of the Spanish language. Lately, I have worked as a Spanish Instructor for Language Bird in Los Angeles. During that time, I taught students and career professionals from the basic, intermediate and advanced levels of Spanish. It would be a pleasure to meet with you at your convenience to discuss my qualifications, as well as any Spanish language needs you may have.

•Extensive experience in the planning of short, medium and long-term courses of English as a foreign language for general and specific purposes •Identification of students need and goals and organization of related learning actvities •Evaluation and assessment of written and oral tests followed by individual feedback according to the CEFRL •Extensive understanding of foreign language teaching methodologies •Preparation for International Examinations such as IELTS, CelpBras •Focus on the communicative function of the language and its four skills (reading, listening writing and speaking) •Strong focus on raising and strengthening students language awareness through students-centered activities that comprise the linguistic competence (domain of the linguistic code through syntax, lexicography and phonetics), sociolinguistics (adequacy of meaning and speech form according to the use) and pragmatics (text genres) •Effective use of technology in teaching •Ability to conduct small, medium and large groups in professional environments, language courses and regular schools •Experience in teaching courses for specific purposes such as Business English (presentations, phone calls and "conference calls", meetings and negotiations and "social english") in different corporative environments •Freelancer interpreter-translator (English-Portuguese) in various entrepreneurial segments •International experience in England and New York •Contribution with the book "Fundamentos do ensino de português como li?ngua estrangeira/ Portuguese as foreign language teaching fundamentals" with the article "A literatura como instrumento motivador no processo de ensino aprendizagem/ Literature as a motivating tool in the teaching and learning process" published in 2015 http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentos-ensino-portugu%C3%AAs-estrangeira Portuguese/dp/0996051147

20 years teaching Dutch, Italian and English at Berlitz Language Center, Austin, TX

Taught First-Year Russian to Yale undergrads Taught First-Year Romanian to University of Texas graduate students