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Hi, everyone! My name is Giusi and I used to live in Rome “The Eternal City”. I am a full-time Italian teacher online. I think that the language of a country is not only a means of communication, but also the best way to go into its culture, so I couldn't help but start teaching my native language and culture. I love traveling, I'm a curious person and I'm passionate about foreign languages and cultures. I feel that this is the perfect job for me, as I enjoy talking to people from all over the world and I can learn a lot from my students too. As for my education, it mirrors my passion for Arts and Literature that I have always had. I got a bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature in 2008; in 2011 I specialized in Art History; later on, in 2014, I decided to get a certification for teaching Italian Language to foreigner students. The main purpose of my lessons is communicative Italian, which means learning how to use the Italian Language. In fact, the lessons are completely interactiv...

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...