Barnesville Language Lessons

ute directed by Deborah Kent. She is also a soloist of Baltimore Choral Arts Society under the conductor Tom Hall and was recently featured in a televised concert, where she sang Mozart’s Allelujah.
*** Studio Equipment ***
Lessons occur in my living room with a beautiful baby grand piano. A waiting area is available for parents.

*** Specialties ***
Breathing Management (Talking and Singing)
Music Theory
Classical Singing
Presentation of yourself

patient, helpful and always ready to arouse the attention of my students? My youngest son, Vietnamese, is the best proof of my skill. He was able to speak a really good Italian in less than three months. Then I found to be "good" with adults as well. I started to teach Italian to some friends and after to friends of friends .... and it worked again!

Key word? Talk, watch, read, listen and talk again!
I am aware the Italian has one of the most complex grammars, but I also know that speaking and reading and watching Italian movies, soccer game or Television News makes automatic to learn the basic rules useful for a good conversation. We can use a really simple grammar book to support with the basic rules up to more advanced grammar books if we may need.

My tutoring approach is focus on student's weaknesses and strengths: use the seconds to correct the firsts. What it is important is to work on what you really like (movie, politics, receipts, actors, history, vacations, ...) and I promise it works. I already experienced this approach with a lot of students and friends who want to speak Italian and know Italy ...waiting for a great vacation "nel Bel Paese".
I try to be flexible with time and I offer makeup classes in case of 24 hours cancellation. I have an quite full equipped office at home but I am available to travel if it is more convenient for the students.
I hope see you soon.. A presto!!

. In addition these lessons, I can explain how signs and sentence structure form.

allenging them in fun ways.

c Law and Theology in Berkeley.

My journey into the Arabic language began when I was 18. Growing up in a faithful Muslim household I some familiarity with Arabic, but only as it related to prayer and religious rites. When I began my BA program in Islamic Studies I was thrown into the world of Arabic and I realized that it was indeed an ocean in itself, as many of my teachers liked to say. Because of my background in Latin I was able to latch onto the similarities between Latin and Arabic grammar as a means of beginning to feel comfortable in the language.

To learn Arabic from scratch mostly required a boatload of patience, but also the ability to see where the Arabic and English languages parallel each other. When you’re learning something new and challenging it often helps to relate it to something you already know pretty well. The good thing about that approach is that you end up learning something new and strengthening your knowledge of something old.

My love for the language comes from my observation of its beauty, depth, and meaning. It carries within itself amazing ideas about life as well as language. These gems of the Arabic language are what kept me going in my own accosting of the language and I find they are helpful to share with students. I am pursuing my PhD in Islamic Studies so my tutoring of the language is as much a benefit for my knowledge as it will hopefully be for yours.