Mar’Yana Lomachenko

As native Ukrainian speaker and Japanese and Ukrainian language and literature linguist I have been teaching languages for around 4-5 years already. My experience includes teaching different languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, Japanese) people of different ages, languages connected ones/or no, different language goals etc. Using grammar&communication as a key to full language comprehension. Initially when it’s beginner level, we start from grammar rules, start building grammar base and improving it. Step by step as grammar base knowledge gets stronger, the communication part steps in. Initially it may be everyday life conversation, small talks and so on. Covering more grammar rules and vocabulary, the list of what can be understood, processed, discussed gets bigger, and variety of topics can be chosen and discussed. It makes also possible some more specific cultural immersion when the student has gotten an ability to freely understand and argue/discuss historical, cultural, social facts, not only of the country/ies of the very specific language but in general. So as a rule a typical lesson is a mix of conversation, remembering old material&covering a new one. And of course, there are some discussions here and there along the way. Italian language specifically affords lots of topics to be discussed and lots of info to be processed (art, food, nature, social life topics and so on). And as the reading rules of Italian aren’t tricky, it’s possible to start speaking after short period of time. And of course, for European languages speakers the ‘start speaking’ time stamp could be even shorter.

So I’m waiting for you to start a great linguistic journey.
Grazie e ci vediamo!