Hello, Everyone!My name is Manuel and I am an Italian native speaker.
I am an English and Italian teacher and freelance translator. I would love to become
your personal English and Italian tutor! Here are some quick points about me:
My experience:I am a language enthusiast and I am very passionate about teaching languages. I currently live near Varese, in the north of Italy, but my parents are from Siena, Tuscany, home of the true Italian language. I have studied languages in Milan and
I have been teaching English and Italian in for 5 years, both online and in traditional classrooms. In this fantastic experience, I have learned how to manage different type of students in different age groups, from young high schoolers to adult entrepreneurs. I have now developed a personal way of teaching languages trough media exposure and immersion and I believe that listening and talking really are the most effective ways to learn.
I also work as a freelance translator and proofreader and I can definitely help you with any translation and revision.
My goal on Cafetalk:It's very simple, I want to help you learn Italian and English in a way that is both effective and fun. It's an incredibly rewarding experience to see people achieve their language goals knowing you have helped them do it. Plus, I would love to get to know people from around the world who share my passion for language and learning.
I really want you to be able to speak fluently and I will stick with you and help you until we make it happen.
My hobbies:I love to share my hobbies with my students as most of the time they make for awesome material for conversation and I learn a lot about their culture and habits myself.
I love to read, especially fantasy novels. I am a huge fan of Harry potter, The Song of Ice and Fire and the Mist of Avalon.
I also love Anime Manga and Dorama, I always try to follow as many as possible: it’s a fantastic way to build listening skill in Japanese while having fun doing it (I watched Kimi no na wa 4 times now and I adore it)
I love movies and Tv shows and I watch anything that seems good enough and that is not going to make me sleep or cringe too much ;/
When I am not at my Pc working and drinking litres of coffee,
I enjoy cooking. I especially like Italian and Japanese cuisine. Lately, I am fixated on preparing tempura.
Sometimes in summer,
I do sports:
volleyball, beach volley, tennis and table tennis.
Oh, and of course I also love to travel, I have just come back from a 2-months road trip in eastern Europe. It was an incredible experience.
Ok, now that you know me a little better, let's get to my teaching approach.
My method:I think one of the keys to learning a new language is engagement:
you need to keep yourself engaged throughout the learning process and incorporate the language in your daily routine. If you can do that, you are pretty much guaranteed to succeed. I am a language student myself, and
I know very well the struggles that you need to face when learning a new language. I am currently studying French, German, Spanish, and Japanese and I have reached the European standard level B1/B2 with all of them. At the beginning, I used to force myself to learn streams of single word and grammar points one by one, but that wasn't working for me, it wasn’t practical nor fun.
I tried different methods before realising that media immersion and conversation were really the most effective and practical way to learn for me. I shared it with my students with very good results both online and in traditional classrooms. As your teacher, I would like you to be able to learn in the most exciting way possible and I believe that with conversation, media exposure and language immersion, you can definitely achieve that.
I will guide you trough the whole process of learning, just follow my instructions and you will be fluent very fast.
Each lesson I will:
- Tell you where you need to improve.
- Provide a written report of your results.
- Answer all of your questions.
- Give you assignments and revise them.
- Adjust the difficulty of the lesson to your learning curve.
- Always be available to you via chat and email (even after our lessons).
In a way,
you can see me as your personal trainer for English and Italian. If you follow my instructions
you will reach fluency easily and with nothing more than 20 minutes a day of practice. First step! If you are confused on how to proceed,
just book the introductory free lesson “Nice to meet you, I am Manuel ~ Piacere di conoscerti, sono Manuel.” Once we know each other and we assess your level, we will decide your next steps.
Thank you for reading trough all this! As a bonus
a picture of my cat: Bacio-san.
I can't wait to meet you in class!
***akochan