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Hello, CIAO 🇮🇹 My name is Andrea and I am a professional native Italian teacher. I was born in the south and I live in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I love my job and I love to meet people from all over the world. I graduated from University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2008. Over the past years I lived in Los Angeles and then London, where I started to give Italian lessons in 2013. I teach all ages and all levels. I teach children, students at school and university, professionals, artists, other teachers and colleagues. During my course it's possible to learn and practice grammar, reading, writing, oral and written production, conversation, listening, written and oral comprehension, standard Italian pronunciation. I am an expert in standard Italian diction and I also teach native Italian speakers pronunciation and accent reduction. If you like, we can practice several Italian dialects! Moreover, together we can prepare your school/business presentations and wor...

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...