Laure Achouline-Cousin

Bonjour ! My name is Laure and I started teaching French as a foreign language when I moved to Germany for my studies in philosophy. In the meantime, I graduated and fell more and more in love with teaching, which became an almost full-time job while I was working on my PhD.
In the past seven years, I have lived and taught in Germany and Italy, and speak fluently these languages. But of course, I can and would love to transmit my mother language to people from all around the world !

I really enjoy teaching my mother tongue, and find it obvious to combine with a transmission of my culture and, more generally, with the French way to communicate (should it be personal, formal, professional...)

I tried to speak as exclusively French as possible, but I would of course adapt to the specific requests of the students. As mentioned, I also am fluent in German and Italian and could help beginners feeling more at ease by explaining grammatical concepts in these languages. But I still am very attach to having people develop a "sense" for French and trust themselves to speak without any shyness.

I like to diversify my teaching material and have language points apply directly to everyday life situation the students might encounter. I work with literary texts, newspapers, songs, images, role playing...
My goal is to make the language acquisition as playful and concrete as possible -even with grammar !

Last thing: I would propose to elaborate a learning program with you during a (free) first class, which should be a personal encounter as well as an evaluation of yours needs and goals. It goes without saying that I would adjust to these and try to offer you a customized training.