Nathalie Charlès-Wiesemeyer
Expand your French language skills
for work and travel
Develop your language skills with tailored lessons designed to meet your specific needs.
French lessons focusing on communication, culture, and collaboration
I teach French to adults – online and on-site – with a focus on collaboration, development, presentation, moderation, and intercultural exchange from a historical and creative perspective.
General language courses
Professional language training
Do you make phone calls and write emails to French-speaking contacts? Do you need to write minutes or dossiers on specific topics (finance, environment, cooperation)? We will work on these aspects from an action-oriented perspective that includes role-playing and specialist vocabulary.
Workshops
Is it necessary for you to introduce yourself to new colleagues or give a presentation in a formal setting? Do you need to moderate a workshop in a French-speaking country? In presentation and moderation workshops, we address both linguistic and intercultural aspects.
Exam preparation
Would you like to take the DELF (Diplôme d’études en langue française) or DALF (Diplôme approfondi de langue française) certification exams? We prepare you specifically by training the four required skills: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, oral and written expression.
My concept
Courage to communicate:
Make mistakes or remain silent?
In my courses, I use artistic means such as theater, music, drawing, and creative writing to promote spontaneity and self-confidence. Depending on the language level, these elements are used differently in addition to vocabulary and grammar.
But is language learning just about vocabulary and rules? Understanding cultural codes and openness to interculturality are at least as crucial. Through my many years of experience in various regions of the world, intercultural communication has become a matter of course for me and has a lasting impact on my teaching practice.
Learning a new language is not just about words and grammar,
but also about the gateway to a different perception of the world.
Feedback and experiences from my lessons:
»Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer impressed with a methodology and didactics specially tailored to the virtual learning format, with which she conveyed the learning content in a varied manner at a high professional and content level. With her friendly and approachable communication style, she always responded to the questions and interests of the participants without losing sight of compliance with the curriculum.«
»In a very skillful way, you manage to correct grammatical errors or compensate for deficiencies in vocabulary without blocking the flow of speech of the participants or otherwise demotivating the participants. In your courses, you use an excellent mix of methods from reading texts, grammar lessons, discussions or conversation. When choosing topics, you adapt to the interests and wishes of the participants as far as is didactically possible and ensure that they are also thematically motivated and eager to learn. Your likeable, humorous and witty manner is also an advantage, making the hours with you a pleasure.«
»Thanks to your well-structured course tailored to my needs and your great flexibility, a large number of relevant topics and situations from my work context could be dealt with. This included writing emails in a professional context, writing summaries and analyses relating to Mali and the Sahel region, and situations in everyday working life. In addition, you taught me French grammar at B2 level. You were very flexible in responding to my needs.«
»In the course, I learned vocabulary from the field of development/international
cooperation, refreshed various aspects of grammar (subjonctif,
conditionnel) and learned and practiced presentation techniques. I found
your teaching style to be very adapted to the needs of the participants,
varied and professional.«
»When implementing and designing the lessons, you always kept my demanding professional life in mind and designed the lessons in a motivating way. You used the functions of the online format profitably. Native speaker level, friendliness and empathy characterize the didactic implementation of your lessons.«
»I refreshed and expanded my grammar knowledge and vocabulary and
improved my conversation skills. I also expanded my knowledge of
French-speaking Africa and the French overseas territories. I found the lessons very entertaining and didactically well structured. The mix of grammar exercises, presentations, text work and videos was very successful.«
»Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer conveys content in a didactically clear manner with a likeable demeanor and builds on the individual level in the foreign language with great sensitivity. She responds to queries and identified weaknesses, making it fun to learn the language with her.«
»The texts were carefully selected, they were previously agreed upon with the participants, and were carefully prepared by Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer. They were then sent to the participants by email a few days before the course. Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer has a very calm, friendly and approachable way of teaching. She always tried to involve as many participants as possible in the discussion.«
»All course participants are actively involved in the conversations and discussions; there is always room for your own additions. We have very lively discussions and, in particular, a lot of fun. You have a great skill in leading the conversation, but also in allowing adjacent topics. Mistakes that the participants make when speaking are corrected in a constructive and competent manner so that we can make progress. Your likeable, cheerful and warm-hearted personality contributes greatly to the fact that I look forward to every course evening!«
»I couldn't imagine a better course! Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer has been leading the course for many years with exceptional competence, both in terms of the design of the course, the selection of conversation topics and the teaching of grammatical subtleties and special features of the French language, as well as in terms of the implementation of the course itself. She treats all participants with great respect, involves everyone equally, and there is a lot of laughter. Thanks to her broad general knowledge, it never gets boring«
»Thanks to the extremely flexible and varied design of the lessons, a solid grammatical and stylistic basis could always be combined with the topics from my professional practice. The use of different teaching materials and the: smooth implementation of the course in the virtual format was particularly positive. Thanks to your extremely respectful, friendly and humorous manner, learning was very easy even in the individual format, was a lot of fun and led to the desired results.«
»The interactive course format and a flexible design of the course along my needs, has contributed greatly to my learning success. A mixture of specialist literature, articles, videos, grammar exercise material and discussion rounds has made the course a perfect combination of specialist and language training. Due to the very careful preparation of the material by Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer, the course days were well organized and built on each other, but left enough free space for in-depth exchanges. The alternation between grammar exercises and subject-related exercises was very balanced and the selection of working materials was also very good. Overall, it was a very successful course and Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer was a professional and very likeable teacher.«
»The training was strongly focused on my needs and the work context. Specialist vocabulary was taught and exercises that are based on the work context. Methodologically and didactically, the training was very well designed. It was varied, contained many partner exercises and different learning resources were used. The trainer was motivating.«
»Overall, the course has provided very helpful support for deepening existing prior knowledge at an intermediate level among the participants. Participation was low-threshold and the "homework" was appropriate, so that the course could be easily integrated into everyday working life despite a high workload. The flexible design of the course and the focus on oral exchange on current topics from the participants' everyday working life has particularly strengthened the special usability of what has been learned.«
»Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer is very popular with the audience of the Institut français. I can therefore only recommend her due to her personal qualities and pedagogical skills as well as her commitment, seriousness and motivation.«
»Despite the virtual format, which is often a hindrance for language courses, you have succeeded in involving all participants equally, moderating interesting discussions and answering questions competently. I was always able to follow your explanations well. In my opinion, the quality and scope of the homework were appropriate to the format of the language course.«
»In this context, Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer has successfully conducted intensive and refresher training courses lasting one or more weeks as well as subject-related language training courses for us. In addition, she has created various teaching materials and also implemented training courses in the area of presenting and moderating in an international context. Ms. Charlès-Wiesemeyer actively participates in our training events and also offers content herself. For example, in January 2024 she completed a workshop on theater activities in foreign language teaching.«
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