Irene

Irene is a great teacher! She has helped me along the journey of learning this beautiful language for over a year now. Irene is very nice and friendly. I have never felt odd or out of place during our lessons. The lessons are fun and challenging to the perfect degree. I have improved my Italian by the exercises and routines we go through during our lessons, and she gives honest feedback and gauges the level of the lesson based on your knowledge and ability. in other words, she provides the proper lesson according to your strengths and weaknesses. I can honestly say our lessons together have paid off a lot!

Irene’s educational approach is both effective and enjoyable: she teaches not only the language, but *how* to learn the language, and her instruction is always thorough and patient. Irene is also incredibly talented at personalizing lessons to students’ interests—we share a love of history and we always find something interesting to discuss, so lessons are consistently engaging. My Italian has improved so much since I started taking lessons with Irene over a year ago—she is an instructor of the highest caliber, and I recommend her wholeheartedly.

It has to be said: Irene is an exceptionally gifted instructor. She is highly attentive to what students want to achieve, to what they might need in order to reach their goals, and also to what might be hindering them, psychologically or otherwise. She has a deep curiosity about what goes on inside the head/brain of the L2 learner -- a curiosity that has led her to explore the relevant neuroscientific findings. This same passion for discovery is reflected in the joy she demonstrates when, together, she and her students uncover underlying motivations or discover strategies and tricks for understanding more deeply the structures of the language. Always full of encouragement, always down to earth and approachable, Irene is a top-notch facilitator of Italian language-learning.

Thank-you Irene for you abundant patience with me! You are the best!!

I can't say enough about Irene's patience and encouragement. Learning Italian for me requires a great deal of repetition. Irene is always fine with this, and we can go over a concept and practice as many times as we need to. The fact that she's so adaptable to the individual student and their needs while learning is making a huge difference for me in my learning experience. Even for a student above my level I have no doubt that she'd be able to tailor the lesson exactly to their needs and learning goals. She has taken time to learn effective teaching methods and her students reap the benefits. Working with Irene continues to be a great experience.

Working collaboratively with Irene to learn the Italian language has been a wonderful experience which just continues to get better the more often we work together. As a teacher Irene does recommend a way forward, however along that way she will allow me to stay on a particular topic for as long as I need to and reiterate concepts until I feel more comfortable with them. When necessary, she can definitely guide me through the thinking or remembering process if I get mentally stuck. This has helped me to come up with the right answer on my own many times. I truly appreciate her infinite patience as well as her encouragement and support. Our lessons are both fun and informative and I highly recommend her to anyone wishing to learn the Italian language.