Azren the Language Nerd

I am temporarily offering free lessons and/or tutoring in French, Spanish, and/or English. I have been tutoring for the past 3 to 4 years, but I am wanting to start taking on more students than I have in the past. These free lessons are going to be a good way for me to attract new students, while allowing me to further hone in on my teaching abilities. 

I have been studying French for the past 19 years, and Spanish for the past 7. I have majored in both languages in university, and I have spent 10 months attending school in France, and 3 months living in Chile/Peru. Because of this, I have near-native fluency in both languages. In terms of English, it is my native language. 

To learn more about me, you can visit my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOLXifLkADUVoyR8lRITJg. If you'd like to start free lessons, reply to this post!

 Personally, I am most interested in the sounds behind a language. When I am learning a language, my biggest focus is being able to nail the pronunciation so that I can, at a minimum, sound native even if I am not 100% fluent. 

I am also interested in learning languages because I love traveling & immersing myself into different cultures

1 minute ago, linguaholic said:

Hi Azren. So nice to have you here! Nothing better for me than seeing another polyglot joining linguaholic.com 

How do you feel about learning Mandarin? I have been studying Mandarin for many years, but I still feel like there are so many things I don't know or that I can't understand properly. 

At this very moment I am near Ningbo, China with my Chinese friends. We went on a little trip to 舟山. We speak Mandarin all the time, so this really helps mi to 提高我的中文水平。：＝.

I am looking forward to see you in the threads. Have a great day.

regards

Lingua

Hi! I'm enjoying Mandarin to be honest. I am nowhere near fluent as of right now, but I will be in China for the entire fall (I leave very shortly) and I'll be returning home right around Christmas. I'll be attending a Chinese school while I am there, while touring around of course. I feel like this will really help me to improve. I'd like to become relatively fluent by the time I return home. 

I had a few quick questions for you actually, since you are currently in China. I am assuming that linguaholic isn't a blocked website in China since you're commenting on this? Or do you have a VPN? I was also wondering if forums in general are blocked or not? I am a part of a few online that I enjoy being a part of (YTTalk being one of my favourites currently), and was wondering I'm going to have to take a 3 month hiatus or not.

Talk soon!

Hi everyone! My name is Azren, and I am new to this forum. Languages have always played an important role in my life. When I was a child, I attended a French school, spoke English with my friends, and Gujarati with my family. That being said, my passion for languages didn't really start until I was about 15 years old when I went on a 3 month exchange trip to France. After coming back, I was hooked. When I turned 16, I started studying Spanish, while still attending a French school. 

After graduating from High School, I went to university where I majored in French & Spanish. For the past year or so, my main focus has been on learning Mandarin. Once I've mastered that language, I am going to move onto Hindi, Gujarati, Russian, and Arabic (at a minimum, haha). I have also been focusing on teaching & tutoring French, Spanish, and English, and making videos on YouTube to help people learning those languages.

Anyway, that is a little bit about me! Looking forward to learning more about the others in this community