Leeroy Anakarkis
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Leeroy Anakarkis
Professional Teacher![]()
Teaches
French
Native
Speaks
English
Spanish
Focus, challenge, creativity... and SINGING!
Teaches
French
Native
Speaks
English
Spanish
Focus, challenge, creativity... and SINGING!
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
Resume & Certificates
From FranceLiving in Tunja, Colombia (01:11 UTC-05:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Mar 25, 2022InterestsWritingMusic
My name is Leeroy and I've been a French teacher for more than ten years now.
I taught students of all ages in schools, companies, online and quite literally all around the world.
I am passionate about language (as well as a singing and philosophy) and I can't wait to share at least one of these passions with you.Me as a Teacher
Efficient teaching, in my understanding, is based on three pillars: a teacher's knowledge, personal enthusiasm & psychological skills.
At the very least, this is what I offer: an in-depth understanding of French language (its registers, history and subtleties), powered by a genuine joy of sharing it and tailored to your specific needs as a student.My lessons & teaching style
At the moment, I focus on teaching French through vocal technique, and vice versa. A very small niche, sure, but it's a lot of fun!
For advanced learners (B1 min.), I also offer a lesson about politics, breaking news, and the growing trends that constantly transform French society.My teaching material
- PDF file
- Text Documents
- Audio files
- Image files
- Video files
- Articles and news
- Test templates and examples
- Homework Assignments
Certificates
TEFL - International TEFL Teacher Training - 2022The curriculum covered a wide range of topics for learners of english as a foreign language: grammar, tenses, figures of speech, etc. We were also taught different pedagogical approaches so that we'd be able to teach different subjects to different students in an efficient way. The whole course took me seven months to complete, mainly because I hyper-focused on it.
Certificate verified
DPAFP-FLE - Alliance Française - 2006The Diplôme Professionnel de l'Alliance Française de Paris - FLE is awarded after completion of a 5 months training that covers Preparation of classes (grammar, phonetics, sociocultural, use of textbooks and other supports); Teaching (pedagogical techniques, strategies with individuals and groups, etc.); Evaluation (correction, tests, etc.); Acquisition and Reinforcement of Knowledge (in-depth learning, exposition to extra-material and immersion strategies, etc). After, one's ready to teach!
Certificate verified
Work Experience
2006 - 2008
French TeacherI worked for about two years with the Alliance Française, both in Chandigarh and New Delhi, India, mainly with adults who wanted to learn French for professional reasons (many of them worked or wanted to get a position in call centres, where French was a rather rare skill). This was probably one of the hardest, yet most rewarding of my professional experiences. Students were beginners and learning was hard, but they were motivated. It taught me a lot: patience, creativity, care, etc.
2015 - 2022
Vocal CoachIf anything, the understanding of basic acoustic principles gave me tools to teach pronunciation. Additionally, mixing language and singing lessons has proven very efficient because learning and singing a song allow students to deeply internalize phonetics and grammar patterns.
5.0
Rating
62
Students
373
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate
French Lessons
Trial Lesson
28 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
SING IN FRENCH!
B1 - C2Language Essentials32 lessons completed
USD 18.00+
FRENCH SOCIETY
B1 - C2Conversation0 lessons completed
USD 30.00
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
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Podcast (2)
Quiz (19)
64 Reviews
Tiia
6 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Excellent lesson! Leeroy is very professional, dynamic, knowledgable and friendly teacher. I think that if you need a teacher for improving your speaking fluency, he would be perfect. He proposed really good excercises and technics for practicing speaking and in the end of the lesson, I got a written document with the lesson notes. Despite the technical issues I had with my computer, the lesson went very well.
Sep 10, 2022
Wes
8 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Leeroy is fantastic. He's practical, enthusiastic, demonstrative, colorful, warm, attuned, and direct. He gives prompts that elicit generative cognitive challenge. Today, he started by asking me to construct a sentence in the past conditional. From there, we moved organically in other expressions. He gives great examples and sends notes from each lesson that I've started turning into flashcards. Wonderful teacher.
Jul 11, 2022
suegannon
20 French lessons
Toujours agréable
Sep 28, 2023
Valentine Zhuk
66 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
I love how many different ways Leeroy finds to make the process of learning a language exciting and informative at the same time! Great teacher!
Jul 18, 2022
Charlotte
1 French lesson
Terrific teacher, very affable and easy to work with. He structured the course according to what would work best for my needs. I’ll note that we had a lot of connection issues with the italki platform, but we switched over to Google meet and it was all smooth from that point on.
Mar 17, 2025
Aaron sandiego
5 French lessons
knows how to teach from English learner's perspective
Jul 21, 2023
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