Italian teacher Mattia Contarino

Mattia Contarino

Community Tutor
Teaches
Italian
Native
Speaks
English
Spanish
Applied linguistics and error analysis expert 📗📖📕 Teaching Italian and loving it since 2013💘🇮🇹
From ItalyLiving in Messina, Italy (07:56 UTC+01:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Aug 19, 2021
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I'm from Messina, just like the famous painter Antonello! I'm an extremely positive person who always competes with himself to give nothing short of his best. I'm meticulous (but not in a bad way hahaha) and you will notice it from the way I give classes and provide corrections. I always try to inspire the people I interact with to believe in themselves and to work hard enough to reach their goals, which is the reason why I truly believe that the effort must always be equal to the dream! I love teaching and I look at it as a way to share what makes my life better. Moreover, I take pride in what I do as I can see that it can change people's lives, mine included!
5.0
Rating
76
Students
1206
Lessons
100%
Attendance
100%
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Italian Lessons

Trial Lesson
21 lessons completed
USD 9.00+
Conversazione - Impara a parlare come un nativo 😎 - 🙂 1 lezione o pacchetto da 10 🙃
B1 -  C2

Conversation

957 lessons completed
USD 9.00+
Package with 11% off
Conversazione - Impara a parlare come un nativo 😎 - 🙂 1 lezione o pacchetto da 5 🙃
B1 -  C2

Conversation

168 lessons completed
USD 9.00+
Package with 11% off
Proofreading - Impara a scrivere come un nativo 😎
B1 -  C2

Language Essentials

60 lessons completed
USD 13.00

Availability

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111 Reviews

Student Everina Lu
Everina Lu
131 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
What Mattia delivers is always beyond my expectation. I can tell he's really passionate about teaching Italian. I'm trully grateful that he's so patient with a beginer like me. In addition, he always encourges me to speak out even if I make lots of mistakes; once I finish the talk, he'll step out to correct one by one. He's also very generous to provide those many resources to review, plus his extra time. In a word, as a beginner who used to have 2 other italian teachers, I'd absolutely recommend Mattia to anyone who wants to improve his or her Italian.
Mar 17, 2022
Student Alejandro
Alejandro
31 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Parlare con Mattia è stata una esperienza bellissima e arricchente. Ho imparato tantissime cose, non solo sulla lingua ma anche sulla meravigliosa cultura italiana. Dopo tutte queste lezioni ho migliorato moltissimo il mio parlato. Le lezioni di Mattia sono molto ben organizzate, le spiegazioni sono chiare e precise, i contenuti molto interessanti. Inoltre, Mattia è molto simpatico, paziente e nelle sue lezioni crea un'atmosfera molto piacevole che favorisce lo sviluppo delle proprie qualità e ti fa sentire a tuo agio, soprattutto al momento di parlare in una lingua che non è la propria. Mi sono divertito molto e lo consiglio vivamente a tutti quelli che vogliano padroneggiare davvero l'italiano. Grazie di tutto, Mattia!
Mar 13, 2022
Student Camila FAST fluency
Camila FAST fluency
9 Italian lessons
Teacher’s pick
Why I think Mattia is one of the best teachers on the platform: 1) He clearly masters what he teaches; 2) He has knowledge of many languages, so he understands why the student makes the mistakes they make and what is the best way to solve it; 3) He's patient and never makes the student feel bad for making the same mistakes over and over again; 4) He's prepared and always has a plan for the lesson, but at the same time is flexible and addaptive to whatever topic the student brings; 5) He not only corrects mistakes but he also gives you more natural ways to say what you wanted to say (to me, this is hugely important!) 6) After class he sends you a detailed analysis of the mistakes you've made and extra explanations (for me this and number 5 is an incredible difference between him and any teacher I have ever worked with!) 7) His prices are excellent! (but I really do think his classes are worth a lot more and I would happily pay whatever amount to have this awesome experience with him!)
Jan 16, 2022
Student Asha Vitlacil
Asha Vitlacil
3 Italian lessons
Mattia is an excellent teacher. He really understands the mechanisms and tools for language learning. He sends me a thorough review of all the corrections, which I find extremely helpful, as well as additional resources for study. I recommend him highly!
Nov 7, 2024
Student Vladi
Vladi
2 Italian lessons
Grazie mille di una piacevole conversazione, Mattia!
Oct 31, 2024
Student Erika
Erika
4 Italian lessons
丁寧に細かく指導してもらえて、いつも本当に内容の濃いレッスンです。充実した30分を送ることができます。
Oct 30, 2024
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