meet  our  team

I am Dr. Nicole Puig and I am excited to share my love of languages with adult students at Beloved Tutoring. Coming from a mixed Cuban/Southern family, I was surrounded by two cultures and languages and was always fascinated by other cultures; but it wasn't until I was an adult that I started really pursuing diving into other languages. I started studying French, German, and Italian during college, as well as dabbling in ancient Greek and Latin. Additional languages came along the way even later, in varying circumstances. I completed my PhD in Romance Languages from Cornell University and then was a college professor for several years before moving to Texas. I have taught four languages (English, Spanish, French and Catalan) and have varying levels of experience with quite a few others. I'm proficient in German and Swiss German, am conversational in Italian, and can read and/or communicate in several others. I have taught ages 4 through adults, in every setting from private tutoring to four year colleges. My children are trilingual and enjoy dabbling in a few others. I love working with teens and adults, especially when they are excited about learning a new language, or deepening their knowledge of one they have begun acquiring. Is it "better" to start learning a second language as a young child? Yes, in some ways, undoubtedly; yet as adults we are still mostly limited only by how much time and effort we are willing and able to put in. Don't put yourself in a box that you 'aren't good at languages' or 'it's too late, I'm an adult.' There is great power in self-motivation, and dedication of your time and efforts, to achieve new levels of language proficiency as an adult. Most of the languages I know, I learned after age 17. It CAN be done. Whatever your specific motivation is to gain language proficiency, I am there to help you achieve your goals.