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IN DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES YOU NEED GOOD ENGLISH!
I can help you with both spoken and written English, no
matter what your first language is.
My Ph.D. in English Linguistics is from New York
University, and I have over 30 years of experience teaching college English and ESL, and tutoring individuals at
all levels.
I am
sensitive to your needs
a patient, creative, flexible thinker
available days, evenings, and weekends
I tutor English and English as a Second Language:
speaking, listening, writing and reading, as well as vocabulary, accent reduction, diction and grammar. Please note:
I work with both children and adults.
I also work on test preparation (TOEFL,
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and personal papers; college/graduate school and other application essays, and personal statements.
In addition, I edit and proofread nonfiction
and fiction manuscripts, website content, letters, proposals, academic and other types of writing.
I also translate texts from French to English:
academic, fiction, nonfiction, etc.
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My clients work in the following professions: Acting,
Law, Architecture, College Teaching, Insurance, Medicine, Health Services,
Dentistry, Music, Filmmaking, Pharmacology, Finance, Mathematics, Parenting, Economics, Interior Decorating, Business, Stock
Trading, Computer Science, Scientific Research, Flamenco, Investment Analysis, Singing, Graphics and Visual Arts, Media
Professions, Fashion, Translation, Professional Poker, Swim Instruction, Television, and Writing, and are students--graduate,
undergraduate, and high school. I have worked with speakers of the following native languages:
Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Ethiopian, Farsi, French, Fujianese, Georgian, German,
Swiss German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malaysian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi,
Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and, of course, English. Some of my projects: Trained medical billers in writing and telephone
skills and in Netiquette--University Medical Practice Associates, (Ms.) Robin Worley, (212) 315-0144 X423 Trained non-native English-speaking corporate employees
in Presentation Skills, ProActive English David Kertzner, President: dkertzner@proactive-english.com Taught ESL to adult Russian speakers in Springboard Program
-- (Mr.) Nahum Kaziev, Director (718) 997-6350 Taught accent reduction course for Faculty at DeVry Institute of Technology--Dean Ellen Gambino (718) 369-4204 Wrote two SparkNotes ESL Reference Charts--GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY--for Barnes
and Noble Translated: World War II memoirs of French Surrealist artist Claude
Cahun --(Ms.) Alix Umen cahun8@aol.com Dissertation: "Synagogue Music in Paris 1822-1874" Parts of French
Dictionary of Architectural Terms, ed. Jean-Paul Kurtz A novel from French, in press 2009... Edited: 100-p. introduction to Comprehensive Bibliography on the Druze
Religion, Druze Research and Publications Institute, by Dr. Sahar Muakasa REPLICA 101, a 400-page novel, by David Moryossef The Right Baby Name, by Oliver Tavakol, M.D. Aardvark
Global Publishing Company, 2007) Website: TheRightBabyName.com. Broken Bond, novel by David Sergi Solix Resettles Blue Mountain, by Robert E. Dansby, Edgenics
Media, 2006 Additional work experience: Literacy Assistant, New York Public Library: Recruited
and trained volunteer tutors and taught adult literacy and ESL students in small groups using software ESL/English Faculty: New York City College of Technology (CUNY) New York Insitute of Technology, NYC Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY Publications: Poems Book reviews Essay on Samuel Beckett in Critical Survey of Short
Fiction Papers presented: "Daring to be Tentative: Teaching the Process Writing
Approach to Chinese Students," 16th Annual Winter Conference, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group, NYSTESOL "Teaching The Color Purple," Conference of
the New York College English Association "Religion and Style in the Novels of Barbara Pym,"
Conference on Christianity and Literature "Language in 1984," Interdisciplinary Symposium
"George Orwell's 1984: Vision and Reality" Languages: French: reading, writing, speaking Spanish, Italian, Latin, Medieval French, Old
and Middle English: varying degrees of comprehension and reading knowledge |
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