Gabe E. - Tutor in Salt Lake City, UT (84105)

I love languages. Not only foreign languages, but my native tongue of English as well. I will graduate in December 2008 with a BA in English and German. I would like to continue my education and study other European languages and possibly an Asian language.
I have enrolled in various courses on English Grammar and Critical Theories regarding English. I am very familiar with many classics of English literature. I enjoy writing and studying/analyzing poetry. I have been involved with many different creative writing groups and enjoy critiquing other's writings.
I received a 6-month crash course in German when I was 10 years old from an elementary teacher. That simply whetted my appetite for more linguistic studies. I studied French for four years in High School. Seven years after graduating High School, I traveled to Paris in 2006, and though I couldn't understand much of the spoken French, I was able to read most of the billboards and other signs, advertisements, menus, etc.
My native German professors at the University of Utah tell me that my German is excellent. They have tried many times to convince me to stay at the U of U and enter the German graduate program. My real goal is to study German in Germany. For the past year I have translated e-mails and letters for my aunt who is doing genealogical research and is in contact with relatives in Germany who aren't able to communicate in English.