Award-Winning AP French Tutors
serving New Haven, CT

I'm a teacher living in New Haven, Connecticut. I grew up in CT before going to Smith College where I studied European history and education. I spent my junior year abroad in Paris, France and fell in love with the city and its history so much that I moved there after college to get my master's degree from the Sorbonne in early modern French history. While I was there, I tutored students of all ages in English and I taught English conversation to French high school students. Then I joined Teach for America and moved back to the states, where I've taught ancient history to 5th graders for the last two years. I'm fluent in French and scored a C2 (highest level) on the Test de Connaissance du franais. I love tutoring test prep, history and French. In my free time, I like to hike, cook and ski.

I'm eager to help you in whatever way I can! I'm a graduate of Harvard (BA, Social Anthropology) and Columbia (MA, Human Rights) and have spent years tutoring students in a variety of subjects. I'm a firm believer that effective tutoring stems from developing a program that is tailored and highly customized to individual students. I look forward to working with you!

Samantha earned her B.A. in French Language from Duke, which means AP French students get a tutor who can dissect a Le Monde article, explain the subtleties of the subjonctif, and coach persuasive essay writing in French — all skills the exam demands. She knows exactly where the AP rubric rewards nuance and where students lose points on careless grammar.

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Pursuing a degree in French with plans to specialize in French-English translation, Sarah brings a translator's ear to AP French prep — she teaches students to stop converting English thoughts word by word and instead build sentences that sound naturally French, which is exactly what graders reward on the interpersonal and presentational tasks. Her English minor also sharpens her ability to pinpoint where interference between the two languages causes errors in register, syntax, and idiomatic phrasing.

Having studied in France and earned a degree in French Language, Taylor brings real cultural fluency to AP French prep — from mastering the interpersonal speaking prompts to crafting persuasive essays in formal register. She breaks down tricky grammar structures like the subjunctive and conditional so students can deploy them confidently on exam day. Rated 5.0 by students.

I am proud to say that the eleven-year-old Vietnamese girl and boy that I tutored for 5 years are both attending Medical school. In addition, I am proud to say that I speak, write and read in French, English, Spanish, Haitian Creole and Italian proficiently. Whenever I tell people that I speak French, they often assume that it is not my mother tongue language because I have no accent in English. I am always proud to say that I did not know how to speak English until I was 16 years of age. Learning a language is like cracking a secret code. Once you decode it, the treasure is yours.

French is the subject Riley lights up about — she studied it alongside English Writing at Saint Mary's College, received formal pedagogical training in the college's tutoring program, and then completed a Master's at Notre Dame. For AP French, she leans into the conversational and writing-intensive tasks, coaching students to stop mentally drafting in English and start producing natural French prose with the register and idiomatic precision graders reward. Rated 5.0 by students.

I am a recent graduate of Bowdoin College with a BA in Biology, English, and Theater. I have been tutoring pretty steadily in one form or another since middle school and am quite comfortable tackling diverse subjects in both the arts and sciences. As a native Spanish speaker, reader, and writer I have years of experience tutoring students at all proficiency levels in the language. My bilingual background has also given me the opportunity to work with native Spanish speakers in other academic subjects. I bring a compassionate and collaborative approach to teaching. I strongly believe that a tutor must treat his or her student as a teammate and not as someone who merely needs instruction. The goal of any tutoring session should be to bring out and foster a student's own capacity to understand and excel in a given field, which begins with respect. I am currently pursuing a graduate study in biology- where my interests primarily lie in evolution and bioanthropology.

Conducting PhD research on West African music at Harvard, Sarah uses French as a working language for fieldwork, academic reading, and professional communication. She brings that real-world fluency to AP French prep, drilling students on the interpretive listening passages and persuasive essay prompts that carry the most weight on exam day.

I am a graduate of the University of Chicago, with a bachelor's degree in psychology and linguistics. Currently, I am pursuing a master's degree in speech-language pathology at Teachers College, Columbia University. In the past, I have worked as a teacher's aide in a public school classroom, a mentor to middle school girls, an instructor and tutor at the literacy education organization 826, and a summer camp counselor. I tutor a diverse range of subjects, and I find that I especially enjoy tutoring language arts, reading, and writing at all levels, from elementary school all the way up to college/grad school test prep. As a tutor, I am committed to helping students reach their full potential as learners. Throughout my years as an educator, I have seen firsthand the remarkable academic growth that can occur when tutors provide students with the individualized support that they need. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, journaling, and learning about other languages and cultures.

I'm an MIT student with a background in mathematics and computer science. I love working with data and making sense of numbers. I hope I can share my passion for these subjects!

A master's degree in French Linguistics and Pedagogy means Nicholas doesn't just speak French fluently — he understands the grammatical architecture underneath it and knows how to teach it systematically. For AP French, he digs into the interpretive and presentational communication tasks that drive the exam, from synthesizing audio sources to crafting persuasive essays in French.