"My name is Carmen and I have been tutoring for the past five years. The two main subjects, but not limited to, are Spanish and English as a Second Language (ESL). I currently freelance and work full time as a multimedia designer for print and video, in which I would love to instruct Adobe software to those that are familiar with the programs or newbies.

My passion for teaching started right after college where I lived in South Korea to teach English from preschool to elementary age students. I had a great time there and when I settled back into the US, I found opportunities to teach ESL to adults and tutoring Spanish to students from elementary to college-age. Currently, I'm the director of our ESL program at my church. We have been excited to see the program grow as well as seeing our students grow by using the language skills that they learned in their jobs.

Most of my childhood was lived in Chile, so my Spanish accent is a very "southern" South American accent, but my parents were American. So speaking English was never an issue, but studying in the English language was hard for me when we moved to the US in my early teens. I now can relate with third culture kids in their culture or language struggles, but those tough times do pass. Coming to the US ended up being a great opportunity to not only be able to test in the Spanish AP exams but also be apart of a French Immersion program in high school. As I lived in South Korea, I learned some Korean there and now my current interest is the Russian language. There are no limits to learning your first to many foreign languages over your lifetime, so let's start today!

I hope to hear from you soon and start learning!" less...