Lambert Girardin

Lambert is an excellent teacher. Super well-organized, attentive, and focused on helping with problem areas while having a really interesting discussion. Strongly recommend !

It’s a pleasure learning French with Lambert. Lambert is kind, easy-going and patient with a penchant for creating engaging lesson plans. His flexibility and adaptability skills are some of his biggest assets as, even with a well-tailored lesson plan, he isn’t afraid to go “off script” to better adapt to your unique goals, interests and level of French. Lambert understands the subtleties around when to allow students to speak uninterrupted to increase confidence level vs when it’s necessary to interject with corrections to facilitate progress. He doesn’t hesitate to explain key concepts in English when necessary and takes the time to write down any words, expressions etc. that you may be struggling with in the chat function to maximize understanding and retention. This is something I have come to really appreciate as it allows me to review our lessons at a later time. Merci pour tout, Lambert. -Nishanti

Learning with Lambert: To begin: Book your time with him early and often. 20 + hours in and here are some things you should know about learning French with Lambert. The first is that he is an extraordinarily gifted teacher. I taught at the university level for 10 years. There are a few people who are "born" teachers. Lambert is one of them. He knows his stuff and, more importantly, follows his intuition. Lambert meets you wherever you're at and pushes just enough to make you *want* to take chances. I didn't even realize he was pushing; I was having too much fun working with him! Now I recognize it, but I'm pushing him to push me! And that's the other thing to know about Lambert. He's a lot of fun. In this cramped, Covid world, he has an irrepressible *joie de vivre" and he uses it in teaching. Lambert can talk about anything...and all the while he's inserting a lesson into the conversation. I can actually feel my brain working, making connections.

The first lesson with Lambert was good. He was a nice and patient guy and was willing to encourage me to speak more in the conversation. I look forward to talking with him in the next class. Practice makes perfect!

He estado disfrutando mucho mis conversaciones con Lambert. Después de haber vivido algunos años en Montreal, no quería perder la costumbre de escuchar el acento quebequés, estaba buscando a alguien con quien practicarlo y encontré a la persona ideal. Si están interesados en esta variante del francés o si van a inmigrar a Canadá o a Quebec, les recomiendo sin reservas tomar lecciones con Lambert.

Lambert puts me at ease. He encourages me and challenges me to think about ways I can say something when I don't know a specific word or phrase, and follows up on mistakes I made in the previous lesson to make sure I understood the correction. Each lesson has been super enjoyable!