Bridging Worlds through Words: Learn Romanian with a fellow language lover.
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Romanian
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Italian
Russian
English
French
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Bridging Worlds through Words: Learn Romanian with a fellow language lover.
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From RomaniaLiving in Other, Romania (04:22 UTC+03:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Apr 30, 2024
Interest topicArtReadingMusicWritingTravel
My name is Șochichiu Rodica Mariana (née Danciu). I was born in Romania and I left for Moscow when I was eighteen, where I studied philology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. For many years I lived in Russia, Italy, Germany and South Korea. I have a keen interest in literature, cinema, music and photography. In addition to my native Romanian, I am fluent in Russian, Italian and English, and I enjoy comparing languages and finding the origins of words.
Me as a Teacher
As a teacher, one of my priorities is adapting to my student's needs and helping them to discover the joy of learning. I start by getting to know them, noticing what grabs their attention, understanding their goals and creating together a customized study plan.
I seek to make the learning experience also serve as a cultural bridge by a mutual sharing of cultural knowledge. Knowing the cultural context of the target language helps maintain interest and informs appropriate usage, while learning to talk about one's own culture in a new language is also immensly beneficial and allows the learner to tie the newly acquired language to their own experience and sharing them with new friends.
My lessons & teaching style
One of my preferred approaches is based on the Facilitator method, creating an interactive and enjoyable context where the student may feel as if they are on a personal journey of discovery rather than merely being taught information. When studying a text, I encourage them to find by themselves the meanings of words that have cognates in the languages they already know and enjoy a sense of achievement and of realization that they can already figure out a great deal of the target language without having studied it beforehand! I also incorporate the natural approach and I a ready to employ a Hybrid method or a more traditionalist approach when appropriate.