I am a multilingual, practicing international business and real estate attorney (NY / Fla). My fluency, a complete working ability in French and Spanish is a mainstay of my practice. The ability to conduct business with clients wholly in their language, so they are as comfortable with me as their US attorney, as they are with their business attorneys at home, whether home be Paris, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Abidjan, Tunis, Madrid, or elsewhere, is the heart of my law practice. French is my...
I am a multilingual, practicing international business and real estate attorney (NY / Fla). My fluency, a complete working ability in French and Spanish is a mainstay of my practice. The ability to conduct business with clients wholly in their language, so they are as comfortable with me as their US attorney, as they are with their business attorneys at home, whether home be Paris, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Abidjan, Tunis, Madrid, or elsewhere, is the heart of my law practice. French is my primary commercial / business / working language for more than 45 years, followed second by Spanish.
I am educated in Spanish, (B.A in Spanish language/literature, and B.A. in International Relations) and having spent junior year abroad at University in Madrid with full term homestay in a Spanish and French speaking (Moroccan origin) family in Madrid. I hold a J.D. and Certificate of International Legal Studies. I became fluent in French working as an international attorney, as legal counsel in NY for the Embassies of France and Côte d'Ivoire. I am a linguist; I live my life in French and Spanish, reading, writing, speaking, thinking, with the vocabulary and expression of a native speaker, on a continual basis as I travel the world and even in USA. I am proficient, as well, in Italian and Portuguese.
I have informally tutored high school age students in both French and Spanish and even served as a substitute French teacher at a Riverdale private high school. I also tutored English as a second language (ESL) for junior high school age Haitian immigrant children in NY.
My approach to teaching / tutoring a language is that "speaking" the language is the key; losing all fear of erring as one speaks will open doors to proficiency, and then fluency. That is my goal for my students. From constant efforts to express oneself without fear to err, will inherently come vocabulary building, good grammar, pronunciation, accent, and the love to interact and communicate in that new language.
