Most tutoring starts with a sales pitch. Mine starts with a measurement. Before you commit to a program, we run a proper diagnostic: your written and spoken French, scored against the same rubrics TEF and TCF examiners use. Only then do we talk programs. Here's each step and what you walk away with.

Step 1 — The consultation

Thirty minutes, free, on video. We cover your goal, your deadline, and where your French has been so far. If you're an immigration candidate, we also confirm which exam your pathway needs, because that answer changes everything downstream.

What this call is not: a lesson, or a pitch. You leave with a straight read on your situation whether you continue or not. If I'm not the right fit for what you need, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Step 2 — The diagnostic

Ninety minutes. You write and you speak, under conditions close to the real exam, and I score both against the actual rubrics: the six criteria TEF writing is marked on, and their oral equivalents. No sample tasks pulled from a random website; the same standards an examiner applies.

You get a one-page written report: your estimated level per skill, your main bottleneck, and the path from where you are to where you need to be. That report is yours regardless of what you decide next.

Why measure this carefully? Because the most expensive mistake in language prep is starting at the wrong level. Aim too high and you build on sand; aim too low and you burn months reviewing what you already own. The diagnostic exists so neither happens.

Step 3 — Your program

With a real measurement in hand, the program choice is almost mechanical.

  • Sprint — 4 to 6 weeks, for students whose exam is close. Heavy on exam strategy and rubric moves, because that's what moves scores on a short clock.
  • Bridge — 10 to 12 weeks, half skill-building and half exam craft. French improves, then sharpens against the rubric.
  • Foundation — several months, for durable French built from the ground up. The exam becomes a checkpoint along the way, not the finish line.

The match is driven by your diagnostic and your timeline, nothing else. Nobody gets steered toward the biggest package; a Sprint student pushed into Foundation is as badly served as the reverse.

Why measurement comes first

Most tutoring sells hours. But hours aren't the unit that matters; the gap is. Two students can both be "intermediate" and need completely different twelve weeks. Measurement is the only honest way to know which twelve weeks you need, and honesty is the whole product. If the answer is "you're six months out from your target," you'll hear exactly that, with the plan to match.

Start at step one

The consultation is free and books in two minutes. Worst case, you spend half an hour and leave with a clearer picture of your own situation. That's the floor. The ceiling is a plan that gets you to your number.