The Professor+ team
Sylvie
German and French as a foreign language tutor
Holder of the French agrégation in German and a doctorate from an Austrian university. Fifteen years teaching in French secondary schools, online since 2020.
Sylvie holds the agrégation in German — the most demanding competitive examination in French secondary teaching — following a CAPES and a doctorate prepared at the University of Salzburg. She has some fifteen years of teaching at lower and upper secondary level, alongside university teaching at Sciences Po Grenoble and Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc.
Her command of German does not come from examinations alone: she has lived and taught in the German-speaking world, in Germany and Austria, and taught German in a corporate setting, including within the Mercedes-Benz group in Stuttgart. In her lessons, German becomes a language to understand and use again, rather than a list of declensions to recite.
She has taught online since 2020, mostly to Swiss students since September 2025, and spent three years at the CNED supporting candidates preparing France's competitive teaching examinations — demanding distance work, with precise follow-up between sessions. She also teaches French as a foreign language, which she practised with adults and students in Germany and Austria.
What they bring to a student
Agrégation in German
The highest teaching qualification in the subject, after a CAPES and a doctorate defended in Austria.
The German-speaking world from the inside
Years lived and taught in Germany and Austria, including corporate training at Mercedes-Benz.
Online teaching, done properly
Teaching online since 2020, plus three years preparing candidates for French teaching examinations at the CNED.
Education
Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle · Paris, France
Agrégation in German, the most demanding competitive examination in French secondary teaching.
CNED · Paris, France
CAPES in German: the French secondary school teaching certificate.
Université Paris-Lodron · Salzburg, Austria
Doctorate, prepared and defended in Austria.
Université Marc Bloch · Strasbourg, France
Postgraduate research diploma (DEA).
Université Paris IV Sorbonne · Paris, France
Master's degree in foreign language and civilisation.
Teaching experience
- German teacher at lower secondary level from 2009 to 2019, then at upper secondary level from 2020 to 2023.
- Lecturer at Sciences Po Grenoble, and seminar and lecture teaching at Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc.
- Distance tutoring for candidates preparing France's competitive teaching examinations at the CNED, 2020 to 2023.
- Corporate German teaching, including at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, and French as a foreign language in Germany and Austria.
- Organising Franco-German school exchanges and educational trips.