이탈리아어 교사가 발견되었습니다: 74

🇮🇹 Italian teacher & conservatory-trained jazz vocalist · Palermo 🎵 Ciao! I'm Ruggero, an Italian language teacher and a jazz vocalist trained at the Conservatory of Palermo (Diploma cum laude in Jazz Voice, 2017). I've been teaching Italian online since 2016 — more than 3,500 one-to-one lessons with adults from thirty different countries. I hold a degree in Translation & Italian as a Second Language and a certification from the University for Foreigners of Perugia. I love teaching my language and culture, and I bring real attention, energy and creativity to every lesson. My background as a professional jazz singer also helps me guide students through the sounds and rhythm of Italian pronunciation — the music of the language. During my lessons I focus mainly on conversation, adapting the speed and complexity of my speech to each student's level. Even if it takes a whole hour just to master "Buongiorno", that's perfectly fine. I keep lessons dynamic and engaging by using a variety ...

I was preparing a lesson for a student of mine, when I found myself struggling with a translation. The word was “cavare”. «Pull out» I thought. But then… was there a better word? “Cavare”, in Italian, doesn’t only mean “to pull out”, that would be “estrarre”, “tirar fuori”, “rimuovere” or something else. “Cavare” has the word “cavità” (cavity) in it. “Cavare” means “to extract from a cavity”, “to remove and leave a cavity” and I couldn’t find a single word in English that suited the perfect meaning. This happens to me all the time, as I speak three languages daily and I am a “word perfectionist”: I am fascinated by the meaning that every word can have, those little shades of significance that can only be understood by those who profoundly study a language. And that is what I do: I study, all the time, to speak each of my three languages at its best, and I teach, to make my students learn properly the meaning of words and their best combination. My name is Cindy and I am a langua...