8filltheheart Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 We have been trying to find a French tutor for dd. She met with one and that tutor was not a good fit at all. She was ok for simple conversation, but she was not able to really answer a lot of dd's questions and would speak to dd mostly in English. Someone recommended a new tutor. Dd met with her today. She is not a teacher, but she moved here from France in Dec. She and her dh moved here for his job and they will be here for the next 3-5 yrs. She doesn't speak much English at all. She and dd hit it off immediately. It was exciting to see dd sitting and conversing only in French! She told dd that she would love to work with her on composition and conversational skills and told dd that she was so fun to work with that she refused to accept the $30 an hour she had told us. She finally took $20! This was a total answer to prayer. I am so relieved to have finally found someone for her to work with. I think her dream of being completely conversant and writing at a high level by the end of high school is now a very realistic goal! So, so happy for her! 47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: Finding someone like that is one of those one in a million moments! Hurray for your DD! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: Finding someone like that is one of those one in a million moments! Hurray for your DD! Absolutely! It reminded me of the day I met Kathy and knew ds had an amazing mentor. Truly a gift that is not even quantifiable. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnTeaching Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That is huge!! Ds never did find a good French Tutor here. He took 5 years of French, but he really could have benefited from one-to-one discussions. He is heading to college in the fall, majoring in International Business and minoring in French. He is not registered for a French class his first semester. He definitely needs to stay up on the language. Hopefully, they will have a French club or some sort of discussions he can attend. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Yeah!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That is great! I am so happy for her (and for you lol)! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 So happy for her! That's great. Good mentors/tutors are worth their weight in gold. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Oh wow congratulations! I wish we could find that in a Japanese tutor for ds! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Fabulous! Inspires me to renew my search for a foreign language tutor. Best of luck to your dd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckive6 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That is so wonderful! It sounds like a very good fit. I need to begin to look for a tutor in French also. My daughter is now in the 4th month of her French exchange, near Paris, France. She is speaking fluently, with good vocabulary. She is still working on grammar, conjugation and sentence structure. She will need to converse regularly in French when she arrives home in August, in order to stay bilingual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 What wonderful news! Regards, Kareni 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaLisa Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Love hearing these kind of stories where it works out better than you could imagine! Happy for y'all, 8! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 That is wonderful news. I know how much I treasure our foreign language tutor and how hard it was to find her :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 That is wonderful news. I know how much I treasure our foreign language tutor and how hard it was to find her :)Finding a local tutor was crazy hard. We contacted the local Alliance Francaise hoping to find someone willing to tutor. Every person we contacted referred her to the one tutor we tried who was a disaster. (She is an unemployed high school French teacher. Dd would ask her questions about specific grammatical constructions and the tutor would give her a blank stare. Dd would have to explain via sentence examples the grammatical form she was asking about. Definitely a teacher who reflects modern American education.) I think that when they heard that dd taught herself that They thought she was going to be a low level beginner. ;) The new tutor complimented dd a lot and told her that her accent was better than most of the AF members. :) Dd loves her languages and she takes them seriously. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 You would think that finding a Danish tutor in Denmark would be the easiest thing in the world but it was ridiculously difficult! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 You would think that finding a Danish tutor in Denmark would be the easiest thing in the world but it was ridiculously difficult! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 You would think that finding a Danish tutor in Denmark would be the easiest thing in the world but it was ridiculously difficult!Wow! That is crazy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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