Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans 1519 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130 - 504.568.0770 - afno@af-neworleans.org


Our Teachers

At the Alliance Francaise of New-Orleans, we offer a friendly and stimulating environment to help you gain confidence in using French. We place an emphasis on communication, both oral and written, which is achieved through active student participation.

All language classes are conducted in French and are designed to develop comprehension, pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary, grammar, written expression and conversational ability.

At the Alliance Française of New Orleans, you not only learn French, you learn how to do things in French through practical use of the language.

Our teachers are native French speakers, qualified to teach French as a second language.


 

Alexandra Drame - Administrative Director.

Born in Paris, Alexandra left France three years ago, right after her Master’s Degree at Sorbonne University specialized in Foreign Languages (English & Spanish).
She has since been living in Canada, Minnesota, Spain and Louisiana where she has worked in different universities and Alliances Françaises to help promote the French language and culture, her goal wherever she goes.

Martine Burtaire is a Parisian Titi.

After studying English and Psychology at the University of Paris VIII, she took a French-English translation course at Mc Gill University in Montreal. Later on, she enrolled in Teaching French as a Second Language course with the Alliance Francaise of Paris. She has been teaching FSL to adults and teenagers for 17 years in Paris, San Francisco, San Diego and New Orleans. She currently studies a Teaching ESL course as she loves the English language and wants to serve it as well.

Nicole Samuel is a native of Brussels, Belgium.

Already in High School she caught the virus of languages: she studied Latin and ancient Greek during 4 years.After High School she switched to more modern languages and she received her degree in Germanics studies at Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1991, she started teaching Dutch and German to adults and teenagers in Belgium. Pretty soon her career became international. She taught French for the Codofil in Louisiana, and she also lived in Africa where she taught Dutch and English at the Belgian school of Bujumbura, Burundi.Teaching languages is her passion and now, she plans to get her Master degree in French as a foreign language.

Nicole Verdan is native of Haute-Savoie, France.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Modern French Literature and her Masters in Science of Language and in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Lyon 2. She is currently enrolled in an Interdisciplinary Ph. D at Tulane. Communication. She has taught French at Universities in France, Switzerland, Germany & the US, in Schools of Languages in Paris, Lyon & Aix-en-Provence, and in International Organizations in Geneva (CERN, Who and United Nations).

Laurence Lechat is from Val de Loire.

Studied French as Foreign Language in Angers. Voyageuse dans l'ame. 7 ans en GB. Teacher in High School. Arrived in Louisiane on August 2005. Is under the charm of New Orleans since then...