Why Italian with Roberta?

One day, Jean, a French boy, came to my school and told me (in French, eh!): "Hello, I have been studying Italian for 6 months, but I can't speak". I looked at him a little surprised. Then he continued: "I need to learn to communicate in Italian. Can you help me?".

The first thing I asked Marc was: "What exactly do you want to do with Italian?". We made a program with its 10 precise objectives, including: knowing how to introduce yourself and tell your week, go to a restaurant and interact, write an e-mail to ask for information, talk and describe the holidays, go shopping , etc.

So we dedicated 3-4 lessons to each goal. I'm talking about goals because at the end of each goal, we did a simulation, to see if Jean could talk about his week or describe his holidays.

So goal after goal, with the help of realistic videos, audios and music (a lot!), Jean left for Italy, on vacation and, all proud, he called me, telling me that he had managed very well in every situation.

How did we do it? There are no special miracles or secrets: his motivation and my passion; his commitment and my methodology.

Ah yes, my methodology! Each new goal is preceded by a completely oral phase, in which you slowly approach the things that will be addressed in the lesson. We can look at images together and repeat words or phrases, we can repeat a small dialogue with the help of gestures.

In short, it's a bit like children do when they learn a new language: they watch, listen and repeat. Here, same thing! By doing this, when you go to read, listen or look at a text, the student will already have familiarized himself with the words or grammar he will find in the text and will understand 40% more!

Anyway, nice to meet you, I'm Roberta and I've been teaching Italian for 10 years, between Europe and Africa! : D