Client Testimonials

Isabelle Dupond's students include businesspeople, educators, students, and every stripe of francophile.

When I first arrived in Paris, I could read Le Monde, but I was a total beginner with my speaking skills. I couldn't have a basic conversation or order dinner in a restaurant! My accent was horrible. I worked with Isabelle every week for a year and made amazing progress. I now run my own business in France and couldn't have done it without Isabelle and Your Paris Teacher.

—Ellen McBreen
Director, Paris Muse

I found Isabelle's private classes to be remarkably practical and effective. This is an opinion I share with other colleagues to whom I have also recommended Your Paris Teacher. Isabelle has a talent for recognizing the needs, problems, and gifts of each of her students. She prepares her lessons in a way that gives her students mastery of the language as quickly as possible. I recommend her highly.

—Sue Lonoff de Cuevas
Deputy Director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Harvard University.

After a year of taking classes with Isabelle, it is my pleasure to recommend Your Paris Teacher. She is an excellent teacher, motivated and highly trained. Her fondness for the French language is always evident and contagious. Isabelle has exceptional abilities to deal with people, especially foreigners, and she adapted her lessons to meet my specific requirements for learning business French. I recommend Your Paris Teacher without reservation.

—Karl Horwitz International President
The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation

Your Paris Teacher's French lessons were a life-saver when I arrived in Paris to take up a new job in journalism with rusty schoolgirl French. Isabelle's excellent, well-structured teaching fast-tracked me into comprehending and speaking the language, and she tailored each lesson for practical application on the next day's assignment, providing useful vocabulary and phrasing of questions. Her initial lessons on pronunciation are brilliant.

—Allison Culiford, journalist

Seven years ago, during one of my annual stays in Paris, I started visiting Isabelle for French conversation lessons. I was particularly impressed by her gentle refusal to allow any English to be spoken during the lesson. This made it impossible for me to rely on anything but my knowledge of French (plus a certain amount of miming!). I was also impressed by the diligent way that she took careful notes of all my errors, writing down in very clear handwriting the correct way to say it. Over the course of these last years, I have never failed to contact Your Paris Teacher whenever I come to Paris. The hours I have spent learning French conversation have been among the most rewarding moments of my trips to France.

—Bruce L.Kates, composer/ lyricist/pianist