Lambert Girardin

Lambert is an excellent teacher. Super well-organized, attentive, and focused on helping with problem areas while having a really interesting discussion. Strongly recommend !

It’s a pleasure learning French with Lambert. Lambert is kind, easy-going and patient with a penchant for creating engaging lesson plans. His flexibility and adaptability skills are some of his biggest assets as, even with a well-tailored lesson plan, he isn’t afraid to go “off script” to better adapt to your unique goals, interests and level of French. Lambert understands the subtleties around when to allow students to speak uninterrupted to increase confidence level vs when it’s necessary to interject with corrections to facilitate progress. He doesn’t hesitate to explain key concepts in English when necessary and takes the time to write down any words, expressions etc. that you may be struggling with in the chat function to maximize understanding and retention. This is something I have come to really appreciate as it allows me to review our lessons at a later time. Merci pour tout, Lambert. -Nishanti

Learning with Lambert: To begin: Book your time with him early and often. 20 + hours in and here are some things you should know about learning French with Lambert. The first is that he is an extraordinarily gifted teacher. I taught at the university level for 10 years. There are a few people who are "born" teachers. Lambert is one of them. He knows his stuff and, more importantly, follows his intuition. Lambert meets you wherever you're at and pushes just enough to make you *want* to take chances. I didn't even realize he was pushing; I was having too much fun working with him! Now I recognize it, but I'm pushing him to push me! And that's the other thing to know about Lambert. He's a lot of fun. In this cramped, Covid world, he has an irrepressible *joie de vivre" and he uses it in teaching. Lambert can talk about anything...and all the while he's inserting a lesson into the conversation. I can actually feel my brain working, making connections.

As always, a great lesson with Lambert. He poses great questions to really get me to think how to best respond when I don't necessarily have the precise vocabulary I would have in English. Low pressure which allows me to stretch beyond what I think are my abilities.

Lambert m'aide à me préparer pour un test à l'oral. Il est très gentil et connaît bien la grammaire. Lambert is helping me prepare for an oral test. He is very nice and knows grammar well.

I had a fantastic first lesson with Lambert. He was engaging, easy to talk with and made learning fun. The introductory lesson was well-structured to determine my needs as a learner and set the stage well for follow on lessons. I felt comfortable and confident throughout the session. I highly recommend Lambert if you're looking for a supportive and effective language teacher who will work with you to achieve success.