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Gaëlle |Accent Coach
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Living in Helsinki, Finland

Accent Coach & Teacher since 2014 | + 10 000 lessons on italki | Communicate more mindfully! I help expatriates, moms, businessmen & diplomats alike to dramatically improve their accent to connect & communicate more mindfully in French. - Follow me on Instagram for more tips: TheFrenchLass If you want to hear me introduce myself (with a very French accent back then!), go to 3:55 on my teacher presentation video :) Mes élèves disent que je suis très curieuse et qu'ils apprécient le fait que j'aime discuter de tout. J'ai vécu dans 5 pays différents et j'ai également voyagé dans presque 30 pays. J'aime apprendre de mes élèves, écouter ce qu'ils ont à dire et ce qu'ils valorisent. Je suis aussi maman de deux enfants en bas âge, et je leur enseigne à parler français et portugais. I have been teaching on italki since 2015. I specialise in accent reduction and in "spoken French". I also worked for the MimicMethod for a few years, where I was the Head of French Instruction and helped give specific pronunciation feedback to students. Later on, I also took lessons with a cinema accent coach and got acquainted with a more theatrical approach, which helped me be more versatile in my feedback. When I see one type of feedback doesn't work, I try another one. Each student reacts differently to different verbal cues, so I think it's important I can bring these different approaches to them, whenever needed :) I do expect some level of motivation from my students and I expect you to give all you can during the lessons :) I don't bite, though, I promise! ---- Pas de prérequis atten...
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Michelle Creel
31 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Excellent teacher! I am confident that I will become conversational sooner than I thought. I have only taken 30 classes and I can already understand a lot of audio dialogues without having to read or look up most of the paragraph per say. She has also never made me feel embarrased about my speech. She is very patient and yet knows how to correct the position of the jaw, lips and tongue to correctly say something in French!
Student Anete
Anete
54 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Gaëlle is excellent french teacher! She teaches really contemporary french - slang, bad words included! :-) Now, when I moved to France, I realize every day that french people really talk like Gaëlle thought me!! ;-) She makes very personalized lessons, uses material of variable themes... thank you, Gaëlle, for stimulating discussions we had! :-) I also liked how easygoing and flexible you are! Bon continuation! :-) gros bisous Anete
Student John Anderson
John Anderson
12 French lessons
It is so great to work with a professionally trained linguist like Gaëlle. Great for wide ranging conversation, and also for technical instruction on grammar and pronunciation, which is powerful for helping adult learners advance quickly.
Student Eric
Eric
56 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
The number one reason holding me back from ever learning French in the past was pronunciation. As an English-speaker I thought the pronunciation was impossible to master. I couldn't even hear the differences between many French sounds, let alone attempt to reproduce them myself. That's all changed sinced working with Gaëlle. I can not only hear the differences between ALL the sounds, but can also reproduce them at a pretty high level. I finally don't sound like that awful English-speaker "trying " to speak French. Thank you Gaëlle!!
Nick Politidis
4 French lessons
Excellent teacher.
Student John Anderson
John Anderson
12 French lessons
Gaëlle is a wonderfully engaging and encouraging teacher!

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