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I have been teaching languages since 2000. I started tutoring in Switzerland and Japan, and have been teaching Japanese, French and Latin in the Bay Area since 2014. I work with adults of all levels (from 18 years old and up). I have experience with one-on-one lessons, group lessons, online lessons, and schoolroom classes. (For groups of two people, my rate is $100/hr). I teach from an hour and up, for weekly consistent scheduling.

I was born and raised in Switzerland. Because my father is Swiss and my mother is Japanese, I have spoken French and Japanese since childhood. As a youth, I spent summers in Japan with extended family. While I was an undergraduate student, I worked as a French teacher for foreign students at école Lémania in Switzerland, and also as a Latin tutor to junior and high school students for 2 years.

At the University of Geneva in Switzerland, I earned a “Licence es Lettres,” equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts degree, and obtained degrees in Japanese, ancient Roman history, and Latin. After graduating, I moved to Tokyo to pursue a doctorate in ancient Japanese grammar at the University of Tokyo. However, I left the doctorate program after two years when I found a greater calling in Tokyo's fashion world.

In Japan, I worked as a PR fashion manager for a variety of European brands including Giuseppe Zanotti Designs, and as a contributing writer for Time Out Tokyo. I still also work for Japanese companies as an interpreter (Japanese-French-English) and adviser with Japanese department stores and import company during European fashion events, and go back to Japan and Europe regularly. I recently worked for the inflight magazine of the Japanese airline company ANA as a coordinator and interpreter for their San Francisco issues. I am also a cultural consultant and travel curator. Hired as a Japanese cultural expert, I worked with Airbnb to help them curate their promotional tour of Tokyo for their new Exper" less...