Zineb Cha

Another great lesson! Zineb has done a great job all these weeks teaching my 6 months old baby. She presents creative ways to teach a baby. I explained her the first day what I wanted and she accepted the challenge. We work with manipulative from our side and Zineb explains the activities in French. I like that my little one always is excited about the class and by request Zineb doesn't speak English to the baby which it is what I wanted for the baby listens French the most he can. She has done a nice job reading books and teaching us nursery rhymes.

As frustrating learning new language as the French language, Zineb makes it sounds and looks easy to absorb. She can put a big stop sign indicating that you're not ready for that yet. This is better than just learning everything you think you need to know. Her engaging level is amazing and after 10 lessons, I'm making a great progress comparing to where I started which was nearly zero :D

I have been on italki for 5 years now learning many languages, Zineb is absolutely top notch. I feel like I have made a new friend across the Atlantic and as a bonus have learned some French! She is caring, patient, easy to communicate with, and is a great language partner, encouraging you to speak even if you make mistakes. I look forward to every lesson with her and she has made learning not feel like learning, but instead like talking to a dear friend

Thank you for a lesson. She always patiently correct my grammar and pronunciations. During free conversation, she find out which points I have to study and we focus on it on a material. For examples, a usage of pronouns in passé composé, pronunciation of /r/. A material can be a grammar drill, dialogue or reading. In a lesson, when I read material awkwardly, then she corrects me and asks how well I understood a material. She also asks me to repeat to read loudly because she wants to know if my intonation and pronunciation gets better. Sometimes she asks me to write sentences in "passé composé", "future tense" or something I should learn more. I have taken her lessons for couple of months and I was always relaxed. She often jokes and so do I. My french skill has got better. Recently she prepares to teach DELF, it will help students to prepare for the test.

All cool, but italki need to improve the application stability 😅

Super interesting discussion with Zineb about inequality of women and men, she provided great questions to encourage me to express myself on complex topics in French. Merci beaucoup et j'ai hate pour la prochaine conversation!