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👋Ciao! Piacere! My name is Veronica and I am Italian, from Florence. I have a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, I speak English and French and I am a Certified Italian Language Teacher for foreign students. The characteristic that distinguishes me is the enthusiasm and passion that I put in every lesson. With my students I like to immediately create a relaxing, informal and conducive to learning environment, always maintaining a certain level of professionalism. I am very curious and I always like to listen and get to better know the students I work with , also in order to create tailor-made lessons. I am punctual, precise and always available in case of doubts or clarifications. My lessons are completely suited to the linguistic needs of my students. I am very creative and I like to always look for new resources to teach, modeling the contents of my lessons on the tastes and interests of my students. I always try to encourage conversation and talking, without being afrai...

I was preparing a lesson for a student of mine, when I found myself struggling with a translation. The word was “cavare”. «Pull out» I thought. But then… was there a better word? “Cavare”, in Italian, doesn’t only mean “to pull out”, that would be “estrarre”, “tirar fuori”, “rimuovere” or something else. “Cavare” has the word “cavità” (cavity) in it. “Cavare” means “to extract from a cavity”, “to remove and leave a cavity” and I couldn’t find a single word in English that suited the perfect meaning. This happens to me all the time, as I speak three languages daily and I am a “word perfectionist”: I am fascinated by the meaning that every word can have, those little shades of significance that can only be understood by those who profoundly study a language. And that is what I do: I study, all the time, to speak each of my three languages at its best, and I teach, to make my students learn properly the meaning of words and their best combination. My name is Cindy and I am a langua...