Looking for a Language Tutor?

Need to hire a language tutor or translator? The UM School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures provides a semesterly register of students for hire. To employ student tutors or translators, consult the lists of candidates below. All inquiries, arrangements, and payments are to be made directly between the client and the tutor(s). Rates and availability will vary.

NOTE: In accordance with University and State of Maryland policy, facilities of the UMD School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures may not be used for personal gain. Private lessons must be held off-premises.

Arabic

Samira Basma, Graduate Student
samira.basma@gmail.com, 301-213-0836
Arabic (MSA and Levantine), Arabic -- English translation, Arabic level: 100-400

Kevin Butts, Undergraduate Student
kevin.a.butts@gmail.com, 240-888-1248
Arabic levels: 104-401

Michael Boyce, Graduate Student
michael.e.boyce@gmail.com
Since I am not a native speaker myself, I am particularly good at helping beginning Arabic students understand the tricky concepts that differ from English since I've gone through the same challenges learning them! I am also fully conversational in levantine dialect and can especially help students looking to make the transfer from formal Arabic to colloquial levantine Arabic.

Andrew Grover, Graduate Student
andrewscottgrover@gmail.com
I have three years experience teaching the language. I can help with Modern Standard Arabic and the Egyptian and Levantine dialects.I am especially good at explaining grammar.

Danyal Najmi, Graduate Student
Danyal.Najmi 617-909-3522
I can translate and do simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. I have worked both as a volunteer and professionally in both interpreting and translating. I can tutor Arabic at any undergraduate level, and tutor beginner levels of Spanish or Portuguese.


Chinese

Jianhua Zhong, Graduate Student
jzhong@umd.edu 681-285-9916
I am a graduate student in English and Chinese education and a student instructor in Chinese in UMCP, with several-year Chinese teaching experience. I can tutor various levels. I worked as the International Program Coordinator in a Chinese university for six years and had translated hundreds of documents including professional papers and had interpreted in numerous formal and informal occasions such as international conferences, university official meetings, etc.

Racqueal Legerwood, Undergraduate Student
rlegerwo@umd.edu
Chinese - English translation elementary, middle and high school, college levels 101-204 proficiency of reading and writing traditional Chinese, but can also read simplified.

French

Silvia Baage, Graduate Student
sbaage@umd.edu
tutoring and translation, all levels

Gavin Elliot, Undergraduate Student
Gelliott@terpmail.umd.edu
French -- English translation, elementary/basic to intermediate French tutoring, high school levels 1-4

Abigail Cember, Undergraduate Student
acember@umd.edu, 301-325-3292
Good reading skills but declining speaking and listening (took French AP in high school)

Nathan Dize, Undergraduate Student
nathan.dize@gmail.com
French -- English translation, Comfortable tutoring up to 301 levels

Kimberly Wilke, Undergraduate Student
kimwilke45@yahoo.com
French - english translation, elementary school-high school levels 1-4, college levels 103-204

German

Silvia Baage, Graduate Student
sbaage@umd.edu
tutoring and translation, all levels

Simon Mait, Undergraduate Student
simonam8@gmail.com
German -- English translation, elementary, highschool levels 1-4

Uche Okafor, Graduate Student
iheflorish@yahoo.com 317-640-4010
For tutoring, I possess college level upto 200 level. For translation, I can handle both literary, scientific and technical languages from German into English.

Alexandra Weinig, Undergraduate Student
allie.weinig@gmail.com
German -- English translation, elementary, middle, high school, college level 100-200

Kimberly Wilke, Undergraduate Student
kimwilke45@yahoo.com
German - elementary-high school levels 1-4

Petra Volkhausen, Graduate Student
pvolkh@umd.edu
Native speaker, tutoring for all levels, German-English/English-German translation

Japanese

Grace Mutuku, Undergraduate Student
gmutuku@gmail.com
Elementary school, all High School levels, college levels 101-402

Hebrew

Razie Alter, Undergraduate Student
rdalter@earthlink.net
Comfortable working with students in any level up to 300.

Coral Kalush, Undergraduate Student coralkalush@yahoo.com
Hebrew is my native language. I could translate/tutor in everything up to but excluding textbooks for college level classes.

Sam Allen, Undergraduate Student
samhallen@gmail.com, 443-452-8674
Hebrew is my first language. I attended a Hebrew school until 12th grade and have tutored Hebrew the past two years through the Jewish Studies department. I can teach all levels.

Yonatan Buckman, Undergraduate Student
ybuckman@terpmail.umd.edu
Hebrew -- English translation, elementary school, high school levels, college levels 111-381

Rina Chaya Siegelman, Undergraduate Student
rsiegelm@terpmail.umd.edu I attended day school through 9th grade and then attended Israeli high school from 10th-12th. I speak, read, write and type Hebrew fluently and can tutor all levels.

Talya Miller, Undergraduate Student
talmille1@gmail.com 201-446-1268
HEBR111 HEBR112 HEBR211

Daniel Granot, Undergraduate Student
granot.dan@gmail.com
Lived in Israel until the age of 7
-Went to Jewish Day School from ages 7 to 14
-Took Hebrew 211 and 212
-Speak fluently, previously taught Hebrew in Fiji, tutored numerous friends, as well and taught English in Thailand and Fiji

Binyamin Besser, Undergraduate Student
binyaminbesser@yahoo.com
Hebrew- english translation, elementary school, high school levels 1-4, college level 1XX-313

Erica Burgess, Undergraduate Student
elb23@terpmail.umd.edu
Hebrew-English translation, elementary school, middle school, high school, college levels up through intermediate. I am in the higher end of intermediate, but am already familiar with most of the material being taught in my class.

Mollie Goldstein, Undergraduate Student
Mollz3118@comcast.net
Hebrew- english translation, elementary school, high school, and college levels. Also took Hebr314 and 381 at Maryland took 2 ulpans in Israel at Hebrew University.

Michael Pollack, Undergraduate Student
mepollack90@gmail.com 2403383093
Hebrew - elementary school, middle school, high school, and college levels 100-400.

Shifra Erez, Undergraduate Student
shifra.erez@gmail.com 6788481638
I am currently enrolled in Hebr212, and I took 211 last semester.


Persian

Shina Mirmozaffari, Undergraduate Student
smirmoza@terpmail.umd.edu
I am a fluent Farsi speaker. I took PERS301 to improve my writing proficiency as well as expand upon my vocabulary.

Kimberly Wilke, Undergraduate Student
kimwilke45@yahoo.com
Elementary school, some translation, college level 101 and 102

Portuguese

Danyal Najmi, Graduate Student
Danyal.Najmi 617-909-3522
I can translate and do simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. I have worked both as a volunteer and professionally in both interpreting and translating. I can tutor Arabic at any undergraduate level, and tutor beginner levels of Spanish or Portuguese.

Russian

Karina Panyan, Undergraduate Student
klp377@gmail.com 443.632.6963
RUSSIAN-fluent, Native proficiency

Seda Kojoyan, Undergraduate Student
skojoyan@terpmail.umd.edu
Russian is my second native language. Capable in English -- Russian translation but stronger in Russian -- English translation.

Inna Tsys, Undergraduate Student
InnaTy@aol.com, 410-562-5188
I can translate and tutor up to level 400, if needed be, I can go higher. I have trouble with distinguishing the cases, but I am sure once I look at them, I will be able to adapt quite fast.

Abigail Cember, Undergraduate Student
acember@umd.edu, 301-325-3292
Tutorning levels 100-300 in speaking, listening, and reading but not in grammar, comfortable with Russian academic and literary texts

Spanish

Sofia Calzada-Orihuela, Graduate Student
scalzada@umd.edu
Translation: English - Spanish Tutor: High school and college levels (101-300).

Maria Gomez-Martin, Graduate Student
mgomezma@umd.edu
- English-German-Spanish translation, Translator and interpreter of English and German by the University of Valladolid (Spain)
- Official Sworn Translator of English by the Spanish Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). (Legal En-Span-En translations)
Elementary and High school levels, College leveles 103-400

Rocio Gordon, Graduate Student
rgordon2@umd.edu
Spanish - All levels

Danyal Najmi, Graduate Student
Danyal.Najmi 617-909-3522
I can translate and do simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. I have worked both as a volunteer and professionally in both interpreting and translating. I can tutor Arabic at any undergraduate level, and tutor beginner levels of Spanish or Portuguese.

Lina Morales-Chacana, Graduate Student
lmorales@umd.edu, 202-288-9683
Taught SPAN103 last fall and pursing a master's degree in Peninsular and Latin American literature. I have taught advanced levels of Spanish as a private teacher and earned a degree in Spanish Literatres, Languages and Cultures from the University of Maryland.

Karina Panyan, Undergraduate Student
klp377@gmail.com 443.632.6963
SPANISH- college Level

Coral Kalush, Undergraduate Student coralkalush@yahoo.com
Translate/Tutor up to high school levels

Kimberly Wilke, Undergraduate Student
kimwilke45@yahoo.com
Spanish - translation, elementary-high school levels 1-4

Kevin Butts, Undergraduate Student
kevin.a.butts@gmail.com, 240-888-1248
Spanish levels: elementary/middle/high school (through APs), 101-425

Shifra Erez, Undergraduate Student
shifra.erez@gmail.com 6788481638
I am fluent in the language and have much conversational experience, but I have not yet taken any college level courses. I took Spanish for all of high school and received credit for Spanish 204 and 207 due to IB tests.