Giovanni is a great teacher! He's encouraging, supportive, and very eager to help. He really goes out of his way to provide everything you need to succeed in learning Italian. Highly recommended!

Today we improved my understanding of prepositions which have been difficult for me. The lesson helped me better understand when to use what prepositions with which articles in a sentence.

After a short pause due to external factors, we resumed this week. The majority of the lesson was focused on general conversation on various topics, as my focus now is on maintaining and refining my level of language use to work towards a higher level of natural fluency. This is always fun and interesting with Giovanni, and he is always ready to listen to what I have to discuss and also to share his own topics which we expand upon together. At the end, we briefly continued with our review of past conditional and subjunctive as grammar practice. Looking forward to the next lesson!

Oggi abbiamo avuto una lezione emozionante! We looked at a homework that included pictures from my weekend, and Giovanni even shared some pictures for his life! This type of studying is fun because it gives great examples of typical conversations, and it makes me feel like Giovanni is a great friend instead of a teacher. Grazie Giovanni- a domani!

The main focus of today's lesson was conversation; at the end we continued some of the final grammatical review of the conditional and decided on the next area of study - reading texts in Italian together. Both these aspects - natural conversation and the ability to read Italian texts comfortably - are my main area of focus, so the lesson we had today was perfect. It is always a pleasure studying with Giovanni, and he guides and corrects me as necessary and provides me with new/correct vocabulary words as required. Each lesson helps me improve my listening and speaking comprehension.

A larger part of today's lesson was dedicated to conversation where we discussed some impromptu topics. This was really beneficial as it required me to think quickly and create new constructions that I had not used before with vocabulary that I was not certain about. At this point, I have covered the grammatical fundamentals, so we discussed some strategies for future study focused on refinement, and more sophisticated and natural language use. Looking forward to future lessons where we can diversify our range of activities and I can maintain the language skills I have acquired so far. Maybe one day I will finally use the prepositions correctly!