Students connect in all languages at Foreign Language Tutoring Club
PHOTO: FLTC presents its club at North Davis Elementary to share their online tutoring service.
By Sophia Young
BlueDevilHUB.com Staff––
The Foreign Language Tutoring Club (FLTC) gives students studying a language an opportunity to learn from and interact with native speakers, as well as provide assistance with assignments and classwork.
“It’s not always easy to learn a new language from just a teacher or an hour-long class every day,” said junior Nanami Chrysler, founder and president of the club.
Through connecting students of all languages, FLTC is proud to have created a diverse community of members.
“Our meetings are during lunch, so we have people talking and eating lunch but mostly not in English,” vice president Alena Voss said. “So we just have a group of people speaking Mandarin, a group of people speaking French, a group of people speaking Spanish and it’s just really cool to see that.”
“It’s really cool to see how many people come in, just to even socialize,” Chrysler said.
Additionally, the club gives assistance to English language development (ELD) students. “We do have a lot of bilingual tutors who can speak two languages so they can help out with that as well,” Voss said.
A former ELD student herself, Chrysler established the club in hopes of creating a helpful and comfortable learning environment for non-native speakers. “My first language is Japanese so I went through the whole ELD process so I know how it’s kind of hard to learn another language,” Chrysler said. “We try to make it a free space.”
FLTC consists of numerous foreign exchange students who come to connect with friends in their native tongue. “We’ve seen a small group of one German tutor trying to teach their friends German, we also see this French group of foreign exchange students that come in and are all talking in French. It’s really cool,” Chrysler said.
The club has also branched out to engage junior highs through its online tutoring service.
“Our main goal for that was to really help middle schools get into the foreign language program and help them set a good foundation before they come to the high school,” Chrysler said.
Club meetings are open to all students: members and non-members who may just need one-time assistance on a project or assignment. “You can kind of just drop in,” Voss said.
The club meets every Thursday in P-24 (Drew Barclay’s room). For more information on how to participate, become a tutor or find assistance, visit the club’s website at sites.google.com/view/dhsfltc/home.
