Francesca Iosa

Francesca has helped immensely in my preparation for the CILS B2 exam. Her experience as an exam administrator has been very valuable in all aspects of the exam. I would highly recommend her to anyone working towards language certification. She is patient, thoughtful, and provides targeted feedback and corrections. I am very grateful for her help!

Francesca was well organised, friendly, dynamic, and very adaptable! We spent the first few minutes chatting and getting to know my level and goals, and then we went through an extract from a book I’ve been reading and explored some grammatical points. I appreciated that we were able to focus on content that interested me. My speaking was extremely rusty after not having spoken Italian for an extremely long time, but Francesca was patient and met me at my level. Grazie!

Francesca is a wonderful teacher! She taught me everything I needed to know to pass the CELI2 B1 exam. Highly recommended.

I have thus far completed seven one-hour lessons with Francesca, so I feel that I can leave a meaningful review at this point. I've been taking Italian lessons for six years, through approximately 10 teachers (both in-person and online). With the benefit of that experience, I would put Francesca at or near the top of that list. She is great. There are many ways to praise a teacher, but perhaps the biggest compliment one can offer comes relative to the amount of fun you have during the learning process. In that regard, I very much enjoy Francesca's combination of structure and spontaneity. We focus on didactic elements during our lessons, but not to the exclusion of everyday conversation, which is why a lot of us are here in the first place. She asks interesting and intelligent questions that help me think and engage in Italian. I also find her homework assignments helpful, challenging, and FUN. "Insomma," I give her my strongest recommendation...thanks, Francesca!

By first lesson was excellent! Very patient and giving good feedback to help build up confidence and learn Italian. I would recommend downloading the app and not use the Internet browser for better access to all the tools in the classroom.

She was able to communicate well in English. The audio and internet connections were very good. She was patient and helpful with providing coaching on pronunction.