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Originally from Venice, one of my first memories with language is my grandfather teaching me numbers in English. It was a small moment, but it planted something: language becomes real when it’s tied to a person you love, not a list you memorize.

Years later, I taught English and French at a school in Mexico, and that’s where I saw it firsthand: language clicks when you experience it, not just study it. I used a present, practice, produce method, introducing the language, practicing it together, then having students produce it themselves, once bringing real fruits and vegetables into the classroom so students could build an actual sentence about buying groceries. Connecting language to something real, right in front of them, is when I saw it work.

That belief is what Lingua Lunga Italian is built on, and it’s in the name. “Lingua lunga” is an Italian idiom for a chatterbox, someone talkative and expressive. That’s what I want for every student: not just to know Italian, but to actually talk in it.

I hold a Bachelor’s with honors in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, a Master’s with honors in Languages for International Communication, and a certification with first-class honors in Didactics of the Italian Language to Foreigners. I’m fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese in addition to my native Italian, and I’ve taught students from more than 15 countries for nearly a decade. I founded Lingua Lunga Italian in 2022, built around what I learned from my own students, not a textbook.

The degrees and certifications matter, but what I actually bring to every lesson is still what I learned in that classroom in Mexico: language works when you feel and experience it, not just memorize it.