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Jonathan

French

Native

English

German

Spanish

Swiss German

Georgian

From Switzerland

Living in Geneva, Switzerland

Dance-theater artist, coaching athletes & dancers, teaching french with an immersive methode I spent my childhood waiting for the bell. The bell that rang to get up and run outside. And rather than sit and study, I'd go out and measure myself against the elements, pushing my body in all kinds of acrobatic activities. So, as an autodidact, I engaged in a career as a freestyle ski athlete. Finally, a few injuries redirected me towards a bachelor's degree in sports science. Once finished, I felt I had to leave for new horizon. I spent a year travelling by bike and kayak until Georgia where I discovered theater and dance. Two years later, I returned to Switzerland to attend a theater and creation school. Today, I live in Georgia, giving dance-theater classes and performing on stage. Pedagogy is developing a subtle sense of someone’s situation and proposing an adapted path of progression, coherent and alive. I develop my pedagogic skills coaching gymnastic, ski freestyle, dance, theater and French. Crossing all those fields, I could discover similar structures and patterns of learning process and started also to transfer methods from one field to another. During my bachelor studies in sport, I realized how deep emotions and body are involved in learning process. This even became the topic of my bachelor thesis: “Importance of self-presence in learning a foreign language”. It's always a joy to create personalized conditions to allow students to perform their best. Teaching is having a vision on the overall structure while creating an immersive and personalized context. ...

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Environment & Nature

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French

Trial Lesson

70 lessons completed

USD 7.00+

7% off

Let's speak French! - Thoughts into words - B1-C2

B1-C2

Conversation

428 lessons completed

USD 12.00+

9% off

Perform french as your own - Words into action - A1-C2

A1-C2

Language Essentials

785 lessons completed

USD 16.00+

10% off

Writing creative - Give a French life to your words - A1-C2

B1-C2

Language Essentials

113 lessons completed

USD 14.00+

9% off

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Liz Fox

31 French lessons

Teacher’s pick

Jonathan clearly explained and followed his extremely effective teaching strategy. He was patient and thoughtful and allowed me to make mistakes and learn from them. I look forward to continuing to study with him!

Tony | YNOT?coaching

10 French lessons

Teacher’s pick

I'm very happy to have met Jonathan. He established a connection between us very well and laid out a clear strategy for not just my french learning journey, or just my study of other languages, but my self-development as a person as well! Highly recommend!