Natalia

Natalia is an excellent teacher. I don't have any specific plan and I've only acquainted myself with Italian through a 10-minute exercise a day app, so my skills are very basic. I can barely make a sentence I intend, despite having some beginner vocabulary. Natalia has a wonderful and warm personality: with patience and curiosity she allows for my growing pains to be less prevalent. The learning process becomes fun, challenging but interesting. And I always learn something besides Italian language: we have bought up topics of gender equality in a language formation, job interest among youth, origins of different kinds of pasta, etc. All of this with my very modest skills. I'm very excited I get to spend time with such and excellent teacher and human!

Natalia and I had a great conversation about the short stories we've been reading. I love the author and my sessions with Natalia. I have the opportunity to express my opinions and therefore use (or try to use) new vocabulary and more advanced grammar.

Obrigada, Natalia! I always learn so much from you and deeply appreciate all the warmth, kindness, patience, and care that you put into every lesson. :)

Another great lesson

Natalia is an extraordinary teacher! I feel like I have hit the jackpot!

Today, Natalia enhanced our discussion of a short story by introducing related materials. The story was about Rome in the 1950's. The narrator was a "controfigura", a stunt-man for an Italian film. Natalia was prepared with online pictures of the Cinecitta - the Roman film studio where many films were and still are filmed. Who knew that Ben Hur was filmed in the Cinecitta! Thank you, Natalia for an eye-opening lesson.