Miriam

Fantastic teacher. Miriam is very patient and helpful with a friendly bubbly character. First lesson was a great experience.

When you are learning a foreign language, it’s not so much about how much the teacher knows. It’s about the personal qualities that the teacher brings to the lessons and that is what makes Miriam such a great teacher. She is intelligent, relaxed, engaged, enthusiastic, and perceptive. She is easy to learn from and I never feel as if she is going through the motions. I enjoy our conversations.

I’m so impressed at how easily our lessons start off with simply exchanging pleasantries and shift into a full blown conversation. I always come away from our lessons feeling more excited about and confident in my Italian.

As you can see from my previous comments, I am a big fan of Miriam. One of the things I really appreciate about her is how flexible she is in our lessons. She typically prepares some questions for me to answer and discuss as part of the lesson, but very often, my answers tend to remind me of questions I have about other subjects or anecdotes I want to share. None of this phases her and as I have mentioned before, they make our conversations more realistic and enjoyable.

Miriam's energy, enthusiasm, and openness make each lesson something to look forward to. She gives me a lot of leeway to make mistakes (and I make plenty of them!) without interrupting the flow of the conversation to correct all of them. Because of that, I'm willing to plow ahead and keep trying. The bottom line is that Miriam is a wonderful teacher.

Even if Miriam wasn’t my tutor, I would hope we would be friends because our conversations are wonderful.