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''Prepared for classes well and explained grammar well and made class fun.'' Apr 20 2008 ''Mariella instills so much confidence. When I got really frustrated with a concept, she reminded me of what I have accomplished and just kept moving forward. She has an amazing ability to use different exercises and conversation to make a difficult grammar usage make sense.'' Mar 11 2008 ''Very organized and prepared. She is able to move along during the session to different topics, all of which are well handled and helpful.'' Feb 20 2008 ''Explained and put the things we learned together so I could actually from sentences and talk in Spanish. In most language courses I've taken they just give you words and don't [*] you how to put it all together. I found that my tutor did a very good job showing me how to do that.'' Feb 12 2008 ''Pleasant manner, encouraging, good mix of grammar and vocabulary.'' Feb 04 2008 ''She was fun, professional, and generally communicated well. She still keeps in touch, which is great! She had a lot of good tips for learning vocabulary and generally I looked forward to the classes.
I enjoyed the exercises of finding pictures for flashcards/vocabulary, reading articles, and using Read and Think in Spanish. It was also fun to listen to music in Spanish.'' Jan 10 2008 ''She is an excellent teacher who has an inate ability to find ways to make me understand difficult (to me) grammar structures. I enjoyed how the class is structured with grammar, conversation, news, film, politics, etc.'' Dec 21 2007 ''Spoke Spanish 95% of the time.'' Dec 02 2007 ''She (Mariella)prepared well, had humor, understood my reasons for taking her class. She clearly explained the concepts and the grammar.'' Nov 30 2007 ''Mariella is the ultimate instructor. She makes learning, studying and doing the homework an enjoyable process. She is demanding in a positive way. She listens to pronounciations, corrects speech and grammar patterns but in a way that is postive and encouraging. I explained to her about my hearing problem that is in part caused by being new to language learning. I am an older nontradiontal student. From the moment I [*] foot in her classroom it was all Spanish all the time. I need that and even though I told her my tiny brain hurt at the end of the class, she provided great brain exercises for language acquisition. She loves what she is doing, is interested in her students, what they do, how they use the Spanish, etc. We discussed political issues, poverty, wages, history, art, music. Wow, she is amazing. I can't wait until the end of January to start again.'' Nov 30 2007 ''Make learning Spanish easy and fun and not a chore.'' Nov 23 2007 ''Natalia was energetic, encouraging, and flexible in her approach. She was also good at balancing our different learning styles.'' Nov 09 2007 ''never had spanish so can`t compare teacher. she stayed in spanish format. I probably should of studied more to get more from course. Probably would of benefited if stayed w/ other member of group, but might of held them back. I think following the book more closely would of been better, although again my study habits were not great. She was very encouraging and after our sessions I felt that I knew more than I realized. Overall I think she is a good teacher and would be happy to take another class w/her'' Oct 31 2007 ''Tutor was attentive to my needs and answered my questions well.'' Oct 31 2007 ''[*] a comfortable atmosphere conducive to speaking in spanish'' Oct 20 2007 ''Whoever desinged this survey should correct their English! It should say: "What did this tutor do particularly well?"
She was accommodating and flexible. She tailored our sessions to my personal needs.'' Oct 11 2007 ''She listened well and was very receptive to our learning needs.'' Oct 06 2007 ''When I do not understand something Mariella says, she is very good at explaining it in another way, or acting out the motion in order for me to understand'' Sep 27 2007 ''Listening to my needs and helping improve in areas of weakness.'' Sep 11 2007 ''She was very good, however, the other student should have been properly placed. The student was more of a level 1 which took a lot of time away from me who was in my second session and new how it worked.'' Sep 11 2007
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