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!

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. :)

Once agan, Natalia and I had a great conversation about the short stories in Italian that we are reading. I enjoy reading the stories and our discussions.

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.

Natalia è sempre molto paziente e gentile. Parla in un modo che posso capire facilmente e mi aiuta a sentirmi più sicura quando parlo in italiano. Grazie a lei riesco a sviluppare frasi in modo più naturale e a migliorare la mia pronuncia.

It was a joy to work with Natalia again, after returning from my two weeks in Italy. Our conversations in Italian prepared me for those I had in Italy - with friends, store clerks and others. Thank you, Natalia!