Ho appena aggiunto un paio di siti utili con lezioni e video in italiano. Buona visione!

@Maria Gloria, sì lo so che le lezioni di adesso sono per insegnanti, ma siccome hai detto che non c’erano più posti e consigliavi di prendere lezioni private dicevo che sul tuo profilo non c’è questa opzione. Inoltre mi riferivo all’insegnante che definiva altri insegnanti ‘competitor’ e non a te. A me piace molto insegnare agli insegnanti perché dimostrano sempre molto interesse e spesso hanno anche loro la passione per le lingue. Oggi ho fatto una lezione sulle espressioni idiomatiche (modi di dire) in italiano e ho avuto solo uno studente, che è un’insegnante e ci siamo divertite entrambe e abbiamo imparato insieme! ;)

Ho aggiunto fra i link il sito della Dante Alighieri: date uno sguardo alla parte PLIDA, ci sono nuovi esercizi per mettere alla prova il vostro italiano.
:)

@ Marged: le lezioni che sto dando in questo momento sono proprio per insegnanti…

Ma io mica ho cacciato nessuno dal gruppo, Marzia e’ piu’ che benvenuta e ha oltretutto chiesto lei il mio parere…

P.S. Farei volentieri una lezione privata con te, ma l’italiano è la mia lingua madre e l’inglese la seconda, se aggiungi l’opzione ‘online education’ alle tue lezioni a pagamento o qualcosa del genere fammi sapere.

Hi Mary,

As far as I know, there isn’t any established rule. It all depends on the politeness and respectfulness of both the teacher and the students.

It has happened a few times with some students that they did not show up for their scheduled lesson without preventing me, so that I’ve been waiting for them for the time of lesson and lost valuable time I could had used for another student or other important stuff.

Since we are all humans and further more busy people, I always understand and ask the student not to pay for the missed lesson and to reschedule it.

However, since my regular students are polite and respectful people and know that I always prepare a tailored class for their needs only, I have been paid for the lost time and effort in most cases, and never asked for a refund.

All the best for your teaching here:-)

Cheers,
Katia

“The beauty of tutoring online is that you can reach students all over the world.” – that’s exactly the reason why I teach online. =)

Hi John, welcome! I’m looking forward for you lessons, I think creating is something amazing….It’s just a pretty way of expressing oneself =)

Kim had been my first superpass student and it had always been a pleasure to have such a nice and smart student in class. I’d like to have her back to edufire too!

Kimberly, come back “’sta casa aspetta a te” ;-)))*

Katia

• Very famous and funny sentence in the Italian dialect from Naples to say " your home is waiting for YOU!". You home is eduFire and its community of course;-))

Ciao Aemilia,

Bentornata:-)

Katia

Thanks =)

Hi everybody,

All I have to say is I have missed teaching on Edufire…a lot! I feel like a newbie again after so many months away.
I put on a little note on my profile to explain my absence, and decided to come back to the forum.
I’m glad to be back and hopefully teaching soon. Peace.

Aemilia =)

My dearest students,
I’ve been missing you all, I’m writing to inform you that I’ve completely fixed my mac and tomorrow the lessons will start again!
I’m so happy!!!
Free tribute to the greatest Italian poetic voice tomorrow, Alda Merini http://edufire.com/classes/11110-a-tribute-to-alda-merini-the-most-important-poetic-voice-of-the-twentieth-century-in-italy
Ci vediamo presto!!
Un abbraccio a tutti!
Marzia

Ciao Andrew,

As a native Italian speaker and teacher, I’ve been often asked this question by my students and foreign friends.

It’s very easy to learn when a child and it’s a matter of tongue:

Simply imitate the noise of the “brum brum” – this is how we call the car when children :D – exagerating a little the vibration of the “r” by trilling a lot.

If this does not work for you – and it will most probably be the case if you don’t have a native speaker to imitate in front of you!- try placing your tongue against the roof of your mouth, near the front, and trill your tongue.

If none of these attempts work and if you are an English native speaker ONLY, you can repeat the following English terms a few times and very fast:

ladder, pot o’ tea, or butter.

I cannot tell on the legitimacy of this third rule but it did work perfectly with some of my native English speakers on eduFire. And as Machiavelli taught us “il fine giustifica i mezzi” (only the results count;-)).

Let me know what worked for you!

Anyway, don’t panic if you cannot!
As my fellow tutor Marged said, some Italians cannot roll their r’s either! Those pronounce the “R” like the French (called in Italian “R moscia” = soft R)…. and we all understand them when they speak :D

ciao ciao,
Katia

P.S. The Italian “R” is much different from Spanish one!

Like Alaia and Amaura ( and many others I guess) I need a metaphysics-spiritual studies category!!!

Thank you in advance eduFire from all of us and our students :-)

Cheers,
Katia