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Laura
French
Native
English
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian
Indonesian

From France

Living in Other, Costa Rica

🇫🇷 ❤️🎓Passionate French teaching expert 🎓❤️🇫🇷 ⚠️ Rescheduling Policy: 4 days' notice minimum please. Thank you! Native Parisian with 15 years’ experience, I offer a premium approach that bridges the gap between theory and real-life fluency. I teach techniques that accelerate retention and show you how to strategically rephrase, simplify ideas, and bypass blocks to be operational quickly. Whether a beginner or advanced, you’ll focus on conversation from day one. With two Master’s degrees and a corporate background, I provide a professional, supportive atmosphere. Having lived worldwide, I love exploring diverse topics with my students while sharing my culture. My goal is to ensure a high-level yet relaxed and "easy to talk to" space where you feel confident to practice.
My teaching material
  • PDF file
  • Text Documents
  • Presentation slides/PPT
  • Audio files
  • Image files
  • Video files
  • Flashcards
  • Articles and news
  • Quizzes
  • Test templates and examples
  • Graphs and charts
  • Homework Assignments
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Interests

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History
Reading
Travel
*** Conversation lessons ***
B1-C2
Conversation
1,980 lessons completed
USD 37.00+
9% off
*** French for beginners or continuing beginners ***
A1-B1
Language Essentials
751 lessons completed
USD 41.00+
12% off
*** French for intermediate and advanced students ***
B1-C2
Language Essentials
550 lessons completed
USD 41.00+
12% off
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Scarlett
76 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Laura's teaching style is exactly what I’ve always dreamed of. She owns a complete structured teaching method and has self-created teaching materials with corresponding audio recordings. Her lessons focus on reading and memorizing useful real-life dialogues, helping students build a sense of the language. She can explain grammar in an easy-to-understand way and guide us to apply what we’ve learned. Step by step, she helps us build our own expressions. What motivated me the most is that Laura truly cares whether her students have really leaned it. She keeps track of every student’s learning process and arranges reviews. If you’re like me - feel lost on the journey of learning French and unsure where to go — then put yourself in Laura’s hands. She will hold you tightly and guide you step towards clarity and confidence - like lighting a bright light just for you! Never before have I felt as confident as I do now: One day I’ll be able to say, “Oui, je parle français.” :)
David
11 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Laura's video gives an excellent and accurate account of her approach to French lessons on italki. Returning to the study of French after a lapse of many decades, I am booking conversation lessons with her, and they are going very well indeed.
Mark
1 French lesson
I loved my lesson with Laura. She has an amazing teaching style that is unique to her. She was patient and caring and answered any questions I had. I'll be booking another lesson very very soon!
Talia Azimov
32 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
I study Spanish and French, and Laura is, with a doubt, the best language teacher I've ever had! I've never progressed this quickly with any other teacher before. She's extremely well prepared, dedicated, incredibly kind, and encouraging. She creates a very comfortable environment for the student, and she has a great sense of humor. Learning a new language can, at times, feel frightening and intimidating, and it's vital to have a teacher that can put you at ease and make you laugh, and that's what Laura does for me. If you truly want to become fluent in French, book a class with her today. You won't regret it!
Student Catherine Scanlon
Catherine Scanlon
4 French lessons
lovely - thanks, Laura! seems such a long time since I tried to speak French, and you supported me to make a start!
Student Brandon
Brandon
10 French lessons
After only a few lessons with Laura, I couldn't imagine learning French with anyone else! Her lessons are structured, the materials she uses are really helpful, and she coaches you through speaking French properly, not just memorizing grammar rules. She's extremely patient and, put simply, amazing at what she does. I've already picked up things I use every day.