Natalia

Natalia is an excellent teacher. I don't have any specific plan and I've only acquainted myself with Italian through a 10-minute exercise a day app, so my skills are very basic. I can barely make a sentence I intend, despite having some beginner vocabulary. Natalia has a wonderful and warm personality: with patience and curiosity she allows for my growing pains to be less prevalent. The learning process becomes fun, challenging but interesting. And I always learn something besides Italian language: we have bought up topics of gender equality in a language formation, job interest among youth, origins of different kinds of pasta, etc. All of this with my very modest skills. I'm very excited I get to spend time with such and excellent teacher and human!

Obrigada, Natalia! I always learn so much from you and deeply appreciate all the warmth, kindness, patience, and care that you put into every lesson. :)

Natalia is absolutely among the finest language teachers I have ever encountered. I study both Portuguese and Italian with her and every lesson is a joy.

Natalia and I had a great conversation about the short stories we've been reading. I love the author and my sessions with Natalia. I have the opportunity to express my opinions and therefore use (or try to use) new vocabulary and more advanced grammar.

I'm so glad I found Natalia when I needed to learn Brazilian Portuguese for work! She understood what level to start at considering my previous knowledge of Spanish, and perfectly tailored the intensive course to a suitable pace for me. In less than three months I held my first presentation in Portuguese at work, and she has continued to help me improve ever since to a completely fluent level. I cannot recommend her enough!

I am gaining a wonderful appreciation of a great Italian writer through my lessons with Natalia. And I am practicing a higher level of speaking, which is a great gift.