Applied linguistics and error analysis expert 📗📖📕 Teaching Italian and loving it since 2013💘🇮🇹
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Applied linguistics and error analysis expert 📗📖📕 Teaching Italian and loving it since 2013💘🇮🇹
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From ItalyLiving in Messina, Italy (23:45 UTC+02:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Aug 19, 2021
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I'm from Messina, just like the famous painter Antonello!
I'm an extremely positive person who always competes with himself to give nothing short of his best. I'm meticulous (but not in a bad way hahaha) and you will notice it from the way I give classes and provide corrections.
I always try to inspire the people I interact with to believe in themselves and to work hard enough to reach their goals, which is the reason why I truly believe that the effort must always be equal to the dream!
I love teaching and I look at it as a way to share what makes my life better. Moreover, I take pride in what I do as I can see that it can change people's lives, mine included!
Me as a Teacher
As a teacher, I always provide my students with thorough explanations and I always make sure that they comprehend what I say. You're here to learn Italian not to simply hear me talking, aren't you? Well, I guarantee you you'll understand each and every word ;)
What about fun? Teaching has everything to do with human contact and the best way to transmit knowledge is through positive emotions. Whenever a certain information can be related to a positive event or situation, it's more likely to be collected in our memory. Indeed, scientific studies have proved how pivotal amygdala and hippocampus are during the learning process
So yeah! We'll learn while having fun and have fun while learning!
My lessons & teaching style
I always rely on science to facilitate your language acquisition process.
Having written my thesis about "Error Analysis", I can identify and explain to you the psycholinguistic mechanisms behind your errors: you won't ever feel frustrated when making a mistake, you'll know what happened and how to get better!
Moreover, I know perfectly well what language learning phases and sequences of acquisition are, which means that you won't ever feel overwhelmed with information during our classes. I'll make it very simple to you: first we learn how to walk, then how to run!
To conclude, the content of our lessons will always be about what you like and are curious about the most!
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Italian Lessons
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104 Reviews
Everina Lu
131 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
What Mattia delivers is always beyond my expectation. I can tell he's really passionate about teaching Italian. I'm trully grateful that he's so patient with a beginer like me. In addition, he always encourges me to speak out even if I make lots of mistakes; once I finish the talk, he'll step out to correct one by one. He's also very generous to provide those many resources to review, plus his extra time.
In a word, as a beginner who used to have 2 other italian teachers, I'd absolutely recommend Mattia to anyone who wants to improve his or her Italian.
Mar 17, 2022
Alejandro
31 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Parlare con Mattia è stata una esperienza bellissima e arricchente. Ho imparato tantissime cose, non solo sulla lingua ma anche sulla meravigliosa cultura italiana. Dopo tutte queste lezioni ho migliorato moltissimo il mio parlato. Le lezioni di Mattia sono molto ben organizzate, le spiegazioni sono chiare e precise, i contenuti molto interessanti. Inoltre, Mattia è molto simpatico, paziente e nelle sue lezioni crea un'atmosfera molto piacevole che favorisce lo sviluppo delle proprie qualità e ti fa sentire a tuo agio, soprattutto al momento di parlare in una lingua che non è la propria. Mi sono divertito molto e lo consiglio vivamente a tutti quelli che vogliano padroneggiare davvero l'italiano. Grazie di tutto, Mattia!
Mar 13, 2022
Camila FAST fluency
9 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Why I think Mattia is one of the best teachers on the platform:
1) He clearly masters what he teaches;
2) He has knowledge of many languages, so he understands why the student makes the mistakes they make and what is the best way to solve it;
3) He's patient and never makes the student feel bad for making the same mistakes over and over again;
4) He's prepared and always has a plan for the lesson, but at the same time is flexible and addaptive to whatever topic the student brings;
5) He not only corrects mistakes but he also gives you more natural ways to say what you wanted to say (to me, this is hugely important!)
6) After class he sends you a detailed analysis of the mistakes you've made and extra explanations (for me this and number 5 is an incredible difference between him and any teacher I have ever worked with!)
7) His prices are excellent! (but I really do think his classes are worth a lot more and I would happily pay whatever amount to have this awesome experience with him!)
Jan 16, 2022
Matheus Villella
10 Italian lessons
Mattia Mattia è un tutor incredibile. Estremamente paziente e carismatico. Inoltre, è molto intelligente e ha incredibili capacità di insegnamento. C'è così tanta preziosa conoscenza che è impossibile non emozionarsi.
Aug 20, 2024
Gersende
76 Italian lessons
Ottima lezione come sempre! Grazie mille!
Jun 19, 2024
Carlos
81 Italian lessons
Ho avuto lezioni settimanali con Mattia per quasi due anni. Le sue lezioni sono molto efficaci. Oltre a parlare, la parte più importante per me nelle lezioni online è ricevere un feedback. Dopo ogni lezione mi invia informazioni dettagliate sugli errori di ogni tipo (grammaticali, lessicali o di pronuncia). Inoltre, le lezioni sono personalizzate e divertenti.