David BertoniParadise Valley, ArizonaWriter
I am bilingual, Italian and American. I am born in the United States but grew up also in Italy and studied there.
I know both languages perfectly, in fact, I have published books in both languages and translated books from one language to the other.
I have been helping people learn Italian since a child, by interpreting directly from one language to another. Then I started teaching professionally since the last 5 years.
I develop a great bond connection with my students where I share cultural aspects of the language and well as music, literature, movies, etc. When some of my students visit Italy I tour them around the country where we can apply directly, in live, what they have learnt.
For beginners I start by teaching them phonetics, so they get initially a good pronunciation and start developing a good listening comprehension. From there we start entering into the grammar and syntax.
Contemporarily to this we develop our lexicon, varying on several topics as ordering a menu, to asking where the train station is, etc.