Ruqayyah

I've taught French, Spanish, and Italian for 10 years. I lived between France and the UK for a few years, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, later working as a reporter, translator, and editor for Diario SUR in Málaga, Spain.

After graduating with a 1st and distinction in Modern European Languages BA (Hons) from the University of Liverpool in 2015, I went on to teach privately and work in secondary-schools, while undertaking a further journalism qualification.

Now based in London, I work as a voiceover artist and tutor.

Being multilingual has given me the opportunity to make once-in-a-lifetime memories — I'd love to help you make your own, too.

Payment
- Classes are £30 per hour; if you're studying as a pair, they're £22.50 per hour per person
- For one person, four hours of class (to be used over four weeks) is £110
- If you're studying as a pair, four hours of class over four weeks are £95 per person
- First lessons are all reduced to £25 per hour per person
- All lessons are fixed in length, in price, and are pre-paid

Booking
- Once we've exchanged details, you can book your first class!
- If you'd like a regular weekly slot, this needs to be arranged in advance.
- All classes are pre-booked to ensure other students can book in too.

Rescheduling and cancelling
- Please allow 48 hours' notice when cancelling a lesson
- If you cancel with sufficient notice, I can offer a refund or lesson credit

Other info
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- If we attempt to swap details, moderators will delete them and terminate our memberships
- Please don't ask my details or send me yours!

Tutoring Experience

• I've taught between the ages of four and 70
• One-to-one, couples, whole families, and large classrooms of children and adults.
• I've prepared students of all ages for oral, reading, writing and listening exams
• The above exam levels include GCSE, 'AS' and 'A2' (WJEC, AQA, OCR, and EDEXCEL)
• I also teach KS1, KS2, and KS3
• Assisted university students with essays, interpreting exams and presentations
• Workshops for university-level exams and coursework from £10
• Experience teaching neurodivergent students

Tutoring Approach

All my classes are tailored based on a student's personal goals and abilities. While I feel a bit of structure is useful, I always try to accommodate depending on what you'd like to achieve. I firmly believe age, ability, neurotype, educational background, and aims shouldn't deter anyone from enjoying learning a language.

I'm happy to use the materials you have, depending on your study motivations, but tend to use Schaum's for grammar. I like to ensure you feel you can approach me and feel safe making mistakes around me, as it's important to be able to trust your tutor in order to learn happily and effectively.

I like to ensure all my students have the grammatical "cement" ready before starting to build the "bricks" of French, Spanish, or Italian vocabulary into full sentences. I also enjoy teaching students to overcome tricky hurdles in pronunciation, which allow them to achieve more "native-level" language abilities.

I'm familiar with WJEC, AQA, OCR, and EDEXCEL boards.

I use shared documents online to track students' progress and you can drop me an email at any time.