Complete Languages Tuition and Services, Jersey

Andrew Picot’s fascination with languages stems from an early age. It is a passion which has grown, taking the former St Martin’s and De La Salle College pupil to Grenada, Costa Rica and China, as well as to France.

Gaining teaching qualifications and honing his own language skills through a mix of travel, work and study since 2006, Andrew last returned to the island in 2015 and founded his own language school in 2018.

Currently, French and Spanish private tuition is offered to nearly all ages. Whether it is 1:1, 2:1 or 3:1 for children or adults, lessons are tailored to individual needs covering vocabulary, grammar and topics. Children may be struggling academically at school or in need of stretching whereas adults may be looking to travel internationally for business/leisure or buy a second property.

Having worked in the mainstream education sector, primarily six years teaching French and Spanish at Victoria College (briefly at Les Quennevais and VCP), he could see that there was a niche for a private enterprise, encouraging as many islanders as possible to learn all four skills of a language (speaking, writing, listening and reading) either face-to-face or online at a time and pace that suits them.