71 Santa Clara Latin Tutors

...Building your vocabulary cannot be crammed into a couple of tutorials but there are techniques for building and expanding your vocabulary rapidly. English borrows as much as 60% of its vocabulary from Latin. Learning Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes can multiple your English vocabulary, and help you to decipher words newly seen. A few Greek roots... read more

...am working on my PhD in Classics from the University of Pittsburgh, while living in the Bay Area. I have received my Master's in Classics from UPitt and graduated cum laude from Pomona College with a double major in Classics and Geology. I have taught college-level Latin, semesters 1-3 as a TA and TF in Pittsburgh, as well as courses in classical... read more

...My years as an undergraduate and graduate student at UC Berkeley and UC Davis stressed the Socratic method of teaching. That is, the instructor and the student constructively argued his or her points of view, while listening, appreciating, absorbing, and remaining open-minded to adversarial ideas. This is the method I choose for tutoring my students... read more

...Though I took few math courses in college, I am highly skilled in High School math, and find it to be on of the easier subjects to tutor. My collegiate background is in Medieval European History, though through that I have become a skilled researcher and writer, with the ability to pass along those same skills. I am currently pursuing a Master's... read more

...If even some vocabulary words are unknown or uncertain, then meaning is lost. Numerous methods for building vocabulary can be tailored to best suit individual students. In addition to my comprehensive in English, Latin, Greek, and French grammar, my experience explaining grammar topics has helped hundreds of students. Grammar mistakes are common... read more