This is a little
example of the way I teach. As you will notice in the video, learning Italian in
a beautiful, relaxed environment is easy to do here.
When you are nervous, and
not relaxed during the lesson, learning anything can be difficult, especially
another language.
That’s why I always try
to create a comfortable atmosphere during the lesson, and always professional.
For me, it’s so rewarding to see students, who couldn’t speak a word before,
conversing in Italian. That for me, is the real joy, and I mean it from my heart.
As I already said, we’ll
practice the four main skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). The plan
is not set and is flexible to meet your needs. For instance, there won’t always
be 2 hours grammar and 2 hours conversation in a 4 hour course. I develop a
strategy for each student, but the most important “thing” is the student themselves. This
is not only my proven technique, but also used by many modern language
scientists.
I’ll teach Italian with
a communicative method. What does it mean? We will speak. You will speak.
Actually, the modern teacher is a motivation trainer. When he/she does his/her
job in the right way, then the student will be motivated to work together.
One last thing that is
for me important to say. People normally think that an Italian teacher must be
able to speak many languages. That’s not true. And people are very surprised
when I say it’s not necessary. It helps, but it’s not necessary. A modern
teacher must be an “actor”. He must let himself understood with gestures (and
you know how we Italians are good with it ;-) and pictures. That happens
especially at the beginning. Later the teacher can explain words with other
words.
