Verb conjugation of "distinguer" in French

I was on vacation for almost two months, so that I could not send you the learning files. In the coming days I will organize the tasks for 2012... Can I count on you for some translation work? Can you translate the following sentence?
Carl said that he would need a private tutor for his spoiled son. My opinion is that sometimes this is counter productive measure as it gives the pupil a feeling of being weaker then the others and may lead to discouragement.
I need to learn a lot of Spanish because I want to study at the university of Madrid. In Switzerland, I studied law, but after 2 years I have switched to medicine: to help people, rather than you know....