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Hi! I have a long experience in teaching to all levels and I provide everything you need to learn Italian. All materials (PDFs, listening activities, videos, textpads ecc) will be available for download and you can keep them for future reference. WHAT YOU'LL GET WITH EACH CLASS: - speaking practice and feedback - downloadable resources for free - reading, listening, writing, and grammar activities - homework My learning materials are designed to best suit a virtual environment and, at the same time, to allow flexibility and creativity so I can consistently adapt to your general and specific needs and goals. Through my teaching experience I learned to always keep in mind and balance out 2 important things: 1. Each student is a unique individual, with their own talents and strengths, learning goals and style. 2. Language learning is a journey, where we need to follow the "natural order" of the steps, to ensure effective, enjoyable and systematic learning. I am cheerful and v...

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...