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Hello everybody, My name is Giulia and I’m Italian. I live in a city in the North of Italy, Reggio Emilia, but I have a neutral accent as I’ve been acting in a theatre company for many years and I studied a bit of Italian diction. I have a degree in “European Languages and Cultures” and I’ve worked for many years in companies in the foreign sales department. I started teaching Italian as foreign language in 2014. At first, I began volunteering for an association which was taking care of refugees (mainly from Africa and Middle East) and their needs. I was teaching them Italian as part of their integration process in the territory. Teaching became a passion which I discovered with surprise. I like teaching because while teaching, I learn, and I can use my creativity. Hence, I decided to further my studies and take all necessary certifications to be a professional teacher. I have the following certifications of teaching Italian as foreign language: - DITALS II University of Siena...

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...