Jerilyn P Immersive experience served with tough love
- Los Angeles, California •
- Online
Tutor Bio
Jerilyn has worked as a private tutor for individuals and small groups for general German, and niche classes such as Theological German, private classes for a group of Rotary ambassadors, and German for Travelers. She has also worked as a translator and courtroom interpreter for private industry, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Department of Defense. She is an active member of the National Language Service Corps (NLSC). She holds degrees in Music Performance and Bartending, and currently works as a web developer in addition to torturing—I mean teaching—German students. If anyone ever wanted to learn Albanian, she’d teach that, too.
Please note that all of Jerilyn’s classes and lessons are taught entirely in the target language, even to raw beginners. It’s terrifying, in an exhilarating and rewarding way. She promises you’ll love it and that you’ll learn much more that way than if she coddled you. She has yet to kill a student with fear.
In her spare time, Jerilyn enjoys vintage jazz dancing; cuddling her roommate, Samson Atticus Pickles Katt, Esq.; reading particle physics journals; and plotting benevolent world takeover. If you think she looks familiar, it’s probably either because you’ve seen her on the television, or maybe because once you were in a public space where she was being loud.
Degrees and Certificates
- Degrees: BA Music, Vocal Performance - Humboldt State University, 2019Colorado Bartending College, Denver, CO, 2006
Personal Interests
Acting, Dance, Foreign language learning, Playing musical instruments
Learn more about Jerilyn
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Besides the languages you teach, do you speak or study any other languages?
I took Latin in high school, have some street Spanish, can get myself into but not out of trouble in French, and am currently learning Scots Gaelic because I want to know more useless languages.
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What is your favorite word in your language and why?
Schwarze Loch--"black hole". I love German words that sound harsh and scary, but mean completely normal things.
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What is your favorite dish from your hometown? If you no longer live there is there a good local restaurant that serves it?
In Germany, I recommend the very German cuisine of anything Turkish--especially in my "hometown" of Berlin, the Turksih immigrant population has a lot to add to the local flavor. I recommend the Döner. The typical Albanian dish is flija (pronounced "flee-ah"). It is a multilayered, savory, bread-pudding-like dish that is hearty and filling. It is traditionally cooked under (not over!) an open fire, but can be made in a modern oven. The best food from where I'm from in Colorado is Grandma's home cookin', and you can't find that anywhere.
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What are your interests outside of teaching at Strommen?
Reading particle physics journals, napping, plotting benevolent world takeover
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What do you consider your hometown? Why do you love it?
Now, it's Los Angeles. I love the diversity and variety we have here, encompassing our choices in entertainment, cuisine, geography, and socializing. What a great place to live.
Hourly Rates
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Online tutoring
Pay as you go: $59.00/hr
10 hour package: $49.00/hr — Package Price: $490.00
20 hour package: $39.00/hr — Package Price: $780.00
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In-person at tutor's location in Los Angeles
Pay as you go: $105.00/hr
10 hour package: $95.00/hr — Package Price: $950.00
20 hour package: $85.00/hr — Package Price: $1,700.00
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In-person at your home or office
Pay as you go: $200.00/hr
10 hour package: $190.00/hr — Package Price: $1,900.00
20 hour package: $180.00/hr — Package Price: $3,600.00
| Pay as you go | 10 hour package | 20 hour package | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online tutoring | $59.00/hr | $49.00/hr — Package Price: $490.00 | $39.00/hr — Package Price: $780.00 |
| In-person at tutor’s location in Los Angeles | $105.00/hr | $95.00/hr — Package Price: $950.00 | $85.00/hr — Package Price: $1,700.00 |
| In-person at your home or office | $200.00/hr | $190.00/hr — Package Price: $1,900.00 | $180.00/hr — Package Price: $3,600.00 |