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Personal Description:
LEARNING ITALIAN LANGUAGE VIA SKYPE
Experienced graduated native tutor teaches Italian one to one and groups via Skype
30 students average per week. Adult and children. Beginners, intermediate, Advance levels.
Survival Italian courses for tourist purposes.
GCSE and A-level teaching. Professional and commercial Italian for your job or enterprise. University tutoring.
My name is Tiziana, I am a native Italian speaker and I was born 46 years ago and grow up in Grosseto (south of Tuscany).
I had been living in England for 8 years and in 2014 I moved to Italy again where I actually live.
I studied at the University of Sienna (Italy) where I obtained my Master Degree in Law and some qualifications to teach Italian to foreigners.
Over the last 14 years, I have developed a passion for teaching Italian to foreigners. I already ran Italian language classes while in my native country, addressed to the foreigner people living in Italy, and when I came to England, I started to give Italian lessons on a one to one basis then and I run Italian courses in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.
At the moment I give Italian lessons via Skype to a lot of distant students and they really enjoy this way of learning
I've got my own website where you find a lot of language resources, grammar exercises, illustrated vocabulary, videos to watch, a blog plent of Italian culture, history and traditions and a lot more.
If you would like to read my Curriculum Vitae and a list of references in United Kingdom, please feel free to ask.
ITALIAN LESSONS VIA SKYPE
Have you ever tried the enjoyable experience to have your lessons from home?
What ever is your purpose for learning Italian, you can have your lesson comfortably from home, saving you money for petrol and time driving.
Where ever you live, doesn't matter how far from me, you can have your lessons via Skype.
All my students are distant students having lessons via Skype and they find this way of learning easy, cheap and comfortable, avoiding the stress of traveling and any petrol expenses.
You only need to have a computer, headphone and microphone and you are ready to start.
I will prepare your lesson in advance (tailored on your purposes, needs and skills) and I will send you the lesson via email before the arranged lesson in order to allow you to print off all the stuff.
During the lesson you will follow my writing seeing me on your computer and listening to my voice. So, you will write grammar exercises, you will read texts and you will practice your speaking with conversation exercises exactly like in a normal face-to-face lesson. I often share my computer screen with you in order to watch some videos together and listen to some audio tracks.
In other words, Italian lessons via Skype are exactly the same lessons you could have at your teacher's house, in person.
I dare to say that Lessons via Skype are even better than the live lessons, because more flexible, cheaper and more proficient as we can use simultaneously a lot of different multimedia language resources
My students really enjoy this way of learning and I am very pleased to teach Italian this way.
We can have lessons via skype up to 3 people, either they are in the same place, from the same computer, or in their own different houses, connected with me with 3 different computers.
THE PROPER ITALIAN - MY ITALIAN BACKGROUND
In Italy we say "the pure Italian is the Tuscan Italian in a Roman mouth".
Italy is composed by a lot of regions and every region speaks a different Italian, with a different accent. North and South Italy speak a very strong dialect. Open or closed pronunciation of the vowels "O" and "E" and doubling consonants "R" and "T" are the most crucial issues.
Italian tutor's accent reflects on the students speaking. I can recognize previews teacher origin of my students only listening to them speaking. I spend a lot of time with my students adjusting their pronunciation.
I grew up in the south of Tuscany and I didn't have to make any effort to get rid of my accent just because I have never had one. Pay attention when you choose your Italian tutor abroad. If you want to learn a proper Italian go with one coming from Tuscany or Rome.
MY STUDENTS BUNCH
I have to deal with many different students every week via Skype. I meet most of my students once a week. Some of them twice. Almost all my students are adult learners but I have got a few teenagers who are preparing their GCSE and A-levels in Italian with me.
Half of my students are beginners and they literally start with no Italian at all. The other half have an intermediate level and they want to improve their skills in speaking and grammar.
In my experience, after 1 year of lessons (coming once per week) a beginner advance to the intermediate level and is able to speak and understand most common Italian conversations.
My Italian lessons are tailored to students ability, skills and purpose.
I teach all levels of Italian and my teaching experience is quite varied and rich.
I have mature students registered for Master Degrees in Italy, businessmen interested in improving their business Italian, teenagers who are doing A-levels and GCSE in Italian, children from families of Italian origin who don`t speak Italian at home and tourists who want to learn a Survival Italian to hold some common conversations during their holidays in Italy.
YOUR LESSON VIA SKYPE IS TAILORED ON YOU
Every Italian lesson is customized on student progress, purpose and needs. I offer a high level of flexibility in terms of timing as I am available to give out lessons every day from 3 pm to 11 pm and during the weekend I'm available even in the morning. If you can't have your lesson in the same day every week I can arrange your lessons time by time at your convenience.
Students receive all the stuff they need to study Italian (grammar, exercises, practice) in advance and there is a hard job behind that. If you study Italian with me you don't spend a penny to buy books, audio-videos or other stuff.
Teaching Experience:
I offer different kind of services via SKYPE:
- Italian "one to one" tuition for beginners, intermediate and advance levels
- Shared lessons via Skype (up to 3 people)
- Survival Italian courses for tourists
- Italian courses for schools, companies, organizations, pr and press offices
- GCSE and A-level teaching
- University tutoring
I offer a first free meeting to all the students, before starting any lesson, in order to assess their level of proficiency as a speaker of italian and understand their purposes in attending an italian course.
Tutoring Approach:
ITALIAN TUITION ONE-TO-ONE VIA SKYPE
I teach Italian by developing written materials according to an individual learner`s needs.
I use materials of different types in order to make each lesson interesting and beneficial, including videos from Italian websites, audio tracks, dictations and games.
Each lesson is usually divided into two sections: the first one is dedicated to study some new grammar and the rest of the lesson is focused on speaking, listening and comprehension exercises to help the student`s proficiency improving day by day.
An important component of my lesson is the "free conversation", where the students tells me what they have done in the last few days. Very useful are also my "driven conversations", based on newspapers articles or other writings, on different topics.
This way my students have the opportunity to learn about Italian culture, politics, food, traditions, history etc.
I always give all my students homework to be done independently.
SKYPE LESSONS PRICES AND PAYMENT TERMS
I charge £ 20 per 1 hour lesson or £ 30 per 90 minutes lesson
I offer discounts for families and groups.
You can pay my lessons via pay-pal or bank transfer. If you need a receipt for your payment, feel free to ask.
SURVIVAL ITALIAN COURSES FOR TOURISTS VIA SKYPE
Are you worried about your language skill during your planned holiday in Italy and you are thinking to learn the most common Italian phrases in order to express yourself and understand most important conversations?
Unfortunately in Italy not so many people speak English and everything you will come across is written in Italian.
We have a different shopping and public service timing, different public transport rules, different emergency and hospital services and also different habits in hotels and restaurants, which can cause you some distress if you pump into a urgent situation and you are not confident with it.
I offer some "SURVIVAL ITALIAN COURSES" for tourists.
They are specific courses, designed for touristic purpose. In a few weeks lessons you will be learning about dining out, shopping, renting a car, manage with trips and tickets without be fussed about the nightmare of the Italian grammar.
They are the only courses I set up completely in English, in order to speed up your Italian learning.
These mini-courses are designed specifically for people who are planning a short trip to Italy and just need to learn some basic survival phrases in the minimum possible time.
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- MASTER DEGREE IN LAW (University of Sienna, Italy)
- HIGH LEVEL EDUCATION TEACHING DIPLOMA (University of Sienna, Italy)
- PUBLIC MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE (Luiss University of Rome, Italy)
- BARRISTER and SOLICITOR EXAMS passed with A GRADE.
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | From their home / Online |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
| Additional Languages Spoken: | English, Italian, Spanish, French |
