It was a pleasure to meet Alberto, who was a kind and patient teacher. Unfortunately there were connection problems –– i received the message “USER CONNECTION IS NOT STABLE” several times. This was my first lesson with Alberto, so I was nervous and I couldn’t see him talking; I could hear him, but the quality of the audio was poor in places and several times I had to ask him to repeat what he had said to me. Of course it is important when learning a language that you can SEE the other person, and this didn’t happen for the whole lesson—not a satisfactory experience at all, but it was no reflection on Alberto himself, who tried hard to solve the connection problems. I certainly hope that italki can make this problem go away, because it does not make me want to book more lessons if the situation continues. I would be grateful to hear from italki what can be done to correct this situation. Also, Alberto could not see me in video at his end, so it must have been frustrating for him too.

Alberto was very helpful going over a text with new phrases. He was patient & helpful with helping me read the texts out loud.

Alberto was very helpful patient when I was conversing about my week & offered advise on vocabulary I was stuck on.

We had a fun casual lesson talking about weather, geography & travel. I got to practice putting my thoughts in to longer sentences which Alberto helped to correct when I struggled.

Alberto helped me with improve my understanding of the uses of ser and estar a lot. He also helped more improve pronunciation of longer words in more difficult sentences.

Alberto helped me review through homework & highlighted where I made errors & explained them. We also had a general chat to help my conversation & talked about books & TV for immersion.