Dale's Tutoring Blog

After four emails over a month's time we decided to have our first meeting at Copperfield's bookstore in Santa Rosa. The gentleman was from Milan. He was formal when he wrote and very specific as to what classes he desired. We sat down at a table and faced each other. When he spoke, his Italian accent was so thick I could barely understand him. It seems that his English tutor in Milan was Irish with a brogue. This made every word additionally heavy with added syllables. I brightened when he told me about his homestay in the outskirts of Sebastopol. In his room in which he stayed...

As a credentialed school teacher I have seven years experience in the public classroom. But the best experience I have ever accumulated over my years on earth has been through travel. I have lived in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, France and Italy. There are many opportunities for affordable travel. You do not have to be a millionaire to experience another culture outside of the United States. Simply put, you just need the desire to speak another language and absorb the language, music, history and customs of another country.

This is more adequately done if you have a quest. Your quest might...