Vanessa Zavanella Margonari

Native speaker graduate in Modern Literature offers Italian lessons

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Teaches:

Italian

Native languages:

Italian

Other languages spoken:

English, French

Native speaker graduate in Modern Literature offers Italian lessons

Students say:

Punctual & reliable (15)

Shares great materials (10)

Inspiring & motivating (7)

Gives great feedback (7)

Brilliant at explaining hard concepts (7)

Teaches:

Italian

Native languages:

Italian

Other languages spoken:

English, French

Specialities:

Writing

Grammar

Conversation

Young Learners

Complete beginners

General learning

Pronunciation

Travel

Qualifications:

Modern Literature Bachelor

Sciences of religions Master

CEDILS

Bio:

I'm Vanessa and I graduated in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna and I have a Master's degree in Science of Religions obtained at the University of Padua. I started tutoring Italian a few years ago to high schoolers; this year I have been teaching adults and children. When I lecture with children, I like to have a nice talk, read a story, or play didactic games. With adults I identify the topics in which they have difficulties and do a lesson about it. I also propose conversations.

My teaching methodology:

To teach adults, I first identify what level to start with in teaching grammar. Then, I conduct an organized lesson on the subject, including providing examples, which the student can do as impromptu exercises to assess understanding of the topic. For children, I use books with bilingual fairy tales or simple explanations on basic topics, but we can also have a talk, play educational games, or watch a cartoon in Italian. I also provide worksheets with vocabulary learned during the lesson.

My teaching background:

As a live tutor, I helped two Italian high school boys respectively improve their writing skills in Italian and with logical period analysis. The latter student, thanks to my help, was able to recover a school debt with an excellent grade. I am currently an online tutor and I teach Latin to a woman and Italian to two children and a girl.

My background outside of teaching:

I was a proofreader for the publishing house Gilgamesh Edizioni in Italy; I was a babysitter for two children aged two and three in Paris and I am currently trying to enroll in a doctorate program in France to complete my studies.

3 unique facts about me:

I love read and learn new things, the topics I can talk about are really a lot.
I published two books, poetry and a short novels collection with a publisher house;
I studied also Latin for six years, I can use this knowledge to improve my explanations of the Italian grammar;

Price per lesson

30-minute trial lesson: FREE

Lesson length:

Trial - 30 minutes

30 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

120 minutes

Calendar preview

2 Jun - 8 Jun

6 am - 12 pm

12 pm - 5 pm

5 pm - 12 am

12 am - 6 am

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Vanessa's Courses (3)

Vanessa offers these custom-designed courses. If you don’t need a specific course, click here to book regular lessons.

Fun Italian for kids

Italian

5 lessons

30 minutes

Total price: €27.50

Have fun with Italian! I have so many fun activities for your children to do, they will learn Italian in no time.

Italian

5 lessons

30 minutes

Total price: €27.50

Description:

If you want your child to learn Italian, but not in a classical and frustrating way, this is the perfect course for him. Through the proposal of games, readings and comics, your child will be able to better memorize what he will learn during the course. The half-hour lessons are designed not to bore him and allow to better metabolize the topics learned during the lessons.

Here’s how the course will be structured:

First lesson

Teaching the main basics of Italian to enable the child to better understand games and readings

Second lesson

A good talk to understand what the child likes and allow him to express himself, speaking in Italian, of course!

Third, Fourth, Fifth lesson

Reading of stories in Italian, and then, as needed, translated into English or French (Little Red Riding Hood/Snow-white/Hansel and Gretel/Rumpelstiltskin/Cinderella/Rapunzel). If children are between four and seven years old, we can read very simple stories with dinosaurs explaining numbers, colors, animals, and clothes.
AND/OR talking, inventing stories together
AND/OR watching cartoons and reading comics of Pimpa, explaining words in English or French if needed. Pimpa is a very cute white dog with red dots who is very popular among Italian children, invented by Francesco Tullio Altan. Her stories are full of kindness, sweetness and fun
AND/OR playing games to remember Italian words. They can be movement games such as "full sack empty sack" (the child has to stand up or down if the sack is called full or empty), touching face parts with the requested hand, "Strega comanda color" (the child will show me something of the color I ask for), or playing together educational games on the Devoto Oli Junior website
AND/OR singing and learning some simple children-friendly italian songs.

Basic Italian grammar

Italian

10 lessons

60 minutes

Total price: €105.00

Let's start from the basics! Thanks to this course you will learn everything you need to know about Italian grammar in a simple and intuitive way.

Italian

10 lessons

60 minutes

Total price: €105.00

Description:

Through this course you will learn the main topics you need to know to speak Italian correctly. The lessons will be structured in an orderly manner, following the student's needs and possible difficulties step by step. With the examples presented during the lesson you will be able to assess your learning level and also practice at home, thanks to the lecture notes I will provide before starting a new topic.

Here’s how the course will be structured:

First lesson

Alphabet (Alfabeto)
Articles (Articoli)

Second lesson

Masculin and feminin (Maschile e femminile)
Singular and plural (Singolare e plurale)

Third lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications
Present indicative of the verb to be (Indicativo presente del verbo "essere")

Fourth lesson

Explanation of the modes and tenses of Italian verbs
Present indicative of the verb to have (Indicativo presente del verbo "avere")

Fifth lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications
Adjectives (aggettivi)

Sixth lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

Pronouns (pronomi)

Seventh lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

Simple and articulate prepositions (Preposizioni semplici e articolate)

Eighth lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications
Use of "ci" and "ne"

Nineth lesson

Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications
Adverbs (avverbi)

Tenth lesson

Big game to see what you learned during the course and further needed explanations or questions

Basic principles of conversation in Italian

Italian

10 lessons

60 minutes

Total price: €105.00

Learn how to break the ice with an Italian friend, you'll make a splash with this course designed especially for those approaching the Italian language for the first time!

Italian

10 lessons

60 minutes

Total price: €105.00

Description:

I will teach you step by step the basics of having a conversation in Italian and talking about simple, but interesting topics. We will start with greetings, in Italian there are indeed many, and then move on to describing yourself, your family, and talking about your hobbies. You will learn how to communicate fluently and avoid the most common mistakes you can fall into while learning the language. Cominciamo!

Here’s how the course will be structured:

First lesson

Greetings (saluti)
Introducing yourself (fare le presentazioni)

Second lesson

Nations and nationalities (nazioni e nazionalità), say where you are from and ask where others are from

Third lesson

Numbers (numeri)
Tell the time (dire l'ora)

Fourth lesson

Talking about colours (i colori)
A must: talking about the weather (parlare del tempo)

Fifth lesson

Talking about your family (la famiglia)
Talking about pets (animali domestici)

Sixth lesson

Talking about the house (la casa)
Talking about clothes (i vestiti)

Seventh lesson

Talking about jobs (il lavoro)
Talking about emotions (le emozioni)

Eighth lesson

Talking about sports (gli sport)
Hobbies (at the student's discretion: we can talk about music, painting, doing math...)

Nineth lessonB

Being polite (essere gentile)
Being less polite... (essere meno gentile), at the student's discretion

Tenth lesson

Big talk about everything you learnt so far!

Price per lesson

30-minute trial lesson: FREE

Lesson length:

Trial - 30 minutes

30 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

120 minutes

Calendar preview

2 Jun - 8 Jun

6 am - 12 pm

12 pm - 5 pm

5 pm - 12 am

12 am - 6 am

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