Ciao! My name is Mauro, I am native Italian from Calabria! I studied International Relations at Bologna University, then I moved to Padua, for a PhD in History of Political Thought. I currently live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I love running, Mozart, tango (I'm trying to improve my dancing abilities...), cook, and culture.
I am a very passionate teacher, I love to share my language and my knowledge about Italy, and its culture, films, music, literature, arts, food!!! I firmly believe that learning is based on trust between teacher and student, and the first objective of my classes is to individuate student's objectives and preferences.
My teaching methodology is integrated: I think that it is important to work on all of linguistic abilities: oral and writing comprehension and production. I also think that lessons must be as much as fun as possible, and I use a lot of authentic material: songs, films, cooking recipes, newspapers, advertising and so on...
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21 Lessons | November 22, 2024
Sempre mi piacciono le mie lezioni con Mauro! Ha molta pazienza. Grazie!
21 Lessons | September 28, 2024
Fun lesson with Mauro!
21 Lessons | August 30, 2024
Fun lesson with Mauro. It still takes most of the lesson for my "Italian brain" to warm up, but Mauro is always patient with me. I feel as though I'm always speaking much better by the end of the lesson!
21 Lessons | June 28, 2024
This was my first full Italian class with Mauro and I really enjoyed it. I'm a complete beginner so it wasn't easy! But he's very patient and made me feel at ease. I learned a lot for a first lesson. I also really liked that speaking is important from day 1. I'm a native English speaker but I'm challenging myself to learn Italian from Spanish instead of English, which I'd like to avoid using at all. If I lose my place in Italian at least I'll be practicing my Spanish!