Celeste

Celeste Leroux was born in Lyon, France, and lives in Paris. Before Paris, she lived in Marseille and in Bordeaux. She studied French linguistics at the Sorbonne, and she teaches French and sometimes works as a cultural consultant. She also volunteers teaching French to immigrants. People sometimes think she is cold the first time they meet her, and they never think so the second time.

Celeste reads classic literature and writes poetry, and she read all of "Les Misérables" without anyone making her. She relaxes by reading on the banks of the Seine and puts on Debussy's "Clair de Lune" while she corrects texts. She is bad at pastry: she weighs everything to the gram and it still goes wrong, so she laughs and says "C'est la vie!" Ratatouille is her dish, because it forgives what pastry does not.

A study stay in Japan widened Celeste's world, and Kyoto is still her favorite place. She knows what it is to learn a language and also what it is to lose one. She came to teaching because she wanted to hear real mistakes from real people, and she found that each student's errors follow their own logic. She stops on words more than on mistakes, often asking "Tiens, pourquoi ce mot-là ?", which means "Why that word?"