The French your
researcher
self needs.
Firsthand & in-depth understanding of the French thinkers you work on. Within a few months, your intellectual rigour meets eloquence on the page, around the seminar table and over an apéro.
Precise, personal and witty
You work on French thinkers, but French keeps getting in the way. You read them through translation, spend long hours with a dictionary, and on top of it all, something inevitably gets lost: the connotations, the wordplay, the texture of the thought.
In French-speaking academic circles, you never quite feel like yourself. You can't speak your mind, quite literally.
You're always busy, and it's overwhelming.
In short: PhD life.
I bring together the rigour of a philosophy teacher and the ease of a native speaker and lover of living, spoken French.
We read the texts themselves, build the grammar from there, and within a few months you can open the originals and hold your own in French-speaking academia, as your French self.
Not a language school, not a translation service, not coaching.
A key to French thought, with rigour, wit, and without the headache.
Who's talking
Alice Camille
Certified Philosophy teacher in high school based in Annecy, trained at Sorbonne University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where I wrote my master's theses on Kant's concept of illusion in relation to human finitude, then on Freud's contribution to the psychology of religion (Religionspsychologie).
I grew up in Montmartre, in Paris, and spent twelve years in hospitality before teaching, so I know French lives around a dinner table as much as in a seminar room.
More about memy first five Frenchies
Where does French get in your way? Tell me, and you'll receive your free starter pack, built around it. Then we'll spend 45 minutes on it together. Five spots for my first Frenchies, and nothing is binding until we've talked.
Apply for a spot!French sparring partner for English-speaking researchers in philosophy and the humanities: read French thinkers in the original, write and speak like yourself.