Rego Park, NY Italian Lessons

Hello! As a native Italian speaker, I've lived in Florence my entire life until I recently moved to New York. I've been tutoring for 5 years and have many long-term students. I attend the University of Florence for languages and linguistics, specializing in Italian and English. Also, I have worked for a translation company and continue to translate Italian and English works.
I'm very excited to help all levels of Italian students and can also provide specialized cultural-inclusive lessons!

I received my Bachelor's degree in Italian Language and Literature with a 4.0 GPA and graduated Summa Cum Laude. During my studies I lived in Italy with an Italian-speaking host family. I have over five years of experience teaching Italian to children and adults both privately and at an international language school. Italian is my favorite subject to tutor!

I grew up in Italy so I speak fluent Italian. I've been tutoring students here in the US for many years now. I focus on give the students almost immediately the tools to start talking with small useful sentences to make them able to say small elementary sentences at first than moving to a more complicated use of the language. I focus on pronunciation, dictionary and grammar (being Italian a pretty complicated language). I work individually with each student in order to achieve each student's goals.

Being a native Italian and having lived in Rome for over 30 years gives me the necessary knowledge to know what is needed in order to learn the Italian language and get deeper into the Italian culture. Also having over 20 years of teaching experience allows me to tailor my knowledge to the need of every particular student. I really enjoy to transfer my knowledge and solve the unique problems that every student encounter during their path.

Ciao! Sono Leonardo. I am from Northern Italy, near Turin and Milan. My passions are food, reading, and traveling. When I lived in Italy, I was a pasta producer by trade so if you're interested in cooking, we can discuss that as well.

I was born and raised in Italy, where I lived most of my life. I've met my now husband while he was stationed in Italy and then moved to the United States. I like to teach Italian to anyone who shows interest. I am not your typical teacher, and what I LOVE to do is talk... talk, talk, talk, and talk. I can teach you how to go to the grocery store, to the restaurant and how to have easy conversations with locals. My latest student was very pleased with my teaching after she went to Italy on vacation and was able to understand and communicate at hotels, restaurants, museums, etc.

I provide fun/customized lessons based on the student's goals. I believe that desire to learn a language is the only way that makes a student want to learn, and therefore I try to minimize English speaking during the lessons. I also give homework exercises for the students to do between lessons. Unless requested, my lessons are intermixed with grammar, conversation, customs/traditions. My goal is to make certain that each student finds Italian as exciting as I do, and wishes to continue the learning process, and become comfortable with me and the Italian language.

Ciao !
I've been teaching for 15 years in Italy
I'm able to teach using my creativity
For example you can learn through the songs or the italian recipe we can talk about italian movie and if you want we can start by gesture!

Native Italian speaker tutors beginner, intermediate and advanced learners in the Italian language. All ages are welcome. Every lesson is based on the needs or goals of each student. I will help you learn the Italian pronunciation, grammar, verbs, lexicon and much more! Iniziamo subito!