(AVAILABLE ONLINE) I am Italian. I moved to Canada first and the US next in my thirties. I love teaching. I have worked as a training and development executive for over 35 years including at a top retail training and consulting firm which I have owned along with my husband. I have taught Italian on and off over the years and have always loved doing it. I am very passionate about the topics I teach and have a clear understanding of the complexities of learning and most importantly remembering things that are new to us. Hence, my obsession with repetition and never move to the next lesson until prior ones are fully mastered. I use multiple tricks to make a lesson engaging, different and fun to attend. I am very flexible and can accommodate schedule changes, if needed, including last minute changes as I understand that my students have jobs or school and need to juggle different priorities. I limit the amount of homework for the same reason. Learning a foreign language is tough and it must not become another 'job', it has to be enjoyable. I also customize my lessons and methods to each student as we all have different ways of learning and retaining new content (which also makes it more fun for me as it is always something new).