Italian teacher PhD FRANCESCO CONTE

PhD FRANCESCO CONTE

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Learn Italian with a PhD Teacher |Polyglot (incl. Turkish speaker)
From ItalyLiving in Other, Turkey (18:28 UTC+01:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Jul 16, 2021
InterestsWritingArtTravelMusicReading
Hi! I’m Francesco — a certified teacher of Italian as a foreign language (Università per Stranieri di Siena), polyglot and PhD in philosophy. I’ve taught students from all over the world, combining language learning with cultural depth and human connection. I speak 7 languages, including Turkish, and I work as an intercultural mediator.
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Students
1048
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
99%
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Italian Lessons

Conversation Lesson
A1 -  C2

Conversation

597 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off
Italian Coaching Sessions
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

250 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off
Think in Italian — Philosophical & Existential Conversations
B1 -  C2

Language Essentials

97 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off
Italian through Graded Readers — Learn with Stories
B1 -  C2

Language Essentials

22 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off
Preparation for the citizenship exam
A1 -  B2

Language Essentials

2 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off
Türkler için İtalyanca — Çok dilli bir eğitmenle öğrenin
A1 -  C1

Conversation

49 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
Package with 14% off

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72 Reviews

UĞUR ZEREN
8 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Francesco son derece ilgili ve destekleyici şekilde ders anlatıyor. Sizin gelişiminizi dikkatli bir biçimde takip edip size uygun bir şekilde yol gösteriyor. Sizin gözünüzü korkutmadan mümkün mertebe italyanca konuşmanızı sağlıyor ve kendisi de zorunda kalmadıkça sizinle italyanca konuşuyor. Bu, sizin italyancanızı çok daha hızlı bir şekilde geliştirmenize imkan sağlıyor. Grazie Mille, Francesco :)
Dec 28, 2025
Ryan
101 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Francesco is an excellent teacher. He is very thorough with his corrections and his explanations; we have only taken a few lessons, but I feel like I have already learned a lot! Francesco is also very smart and can talk about a wide variety of topics, which is great for anyone with a wide range of interests that wants to practice discussing such topics in Italian. Francesco also has the extremely useful skill of listening deeply and intensely to what the student is saying; as a result, not only does he correct and explain, but also truly engages and facilitates. I would absolutely recommend him as a teacher to anyone interested in improving in Italian!!
May 29, 2024
Andrea
24 Italian lessons
Patient and encouraging, Francesco is incredibly helpful in my journey to learning Italian!
Dec 8, 2025
Ali Dincer
42 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
30 dersi ve A1 seviyesini bitirdik. Simdi A2 seviyesine basliyoruz. Amac B1 seviyesi. Francesco ile dersler cok zevkli, harika bir egitmen. Guvenle tavsiye ediyorum.
Dec 4, 2025
Andrea
24 Italian lessons
I have learned so much thanks to Francesco’s encouragement and useful explanations. I am grateful!
Jan 4, 2026
Student CuebasJuan
CuebasJuan
34 Italian lessons
Francesco is an excellent professor for those who are at least at an intermediate level or further and want to go beyond lessons that only cover the structure of the language. He stimulates to think critically in italian. He is a highly educated philosopher with whom I am learning not just Italian, but also pondering a lot about the world through a philosophical lens. Through interesting discussions, reading assignments, we discuss different topics from philosophy and science to music, to history and popular culture, emphasizing fluency while at the same time very skillfully interjecting with grammatical corrections, with teaching about idiomatic expressions. I like the emphasis first in fluency and comfort with the language. Moreover, he is someone who is always positive, engaging, interested in different perspectives, and my interactions with him are stimulating both from the sense of learning the italian language as well as thinking in italian about everything around us.
Nov 24, 2025
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