Hello everyone! This is my self introduction video for
italki!
My name is Arturo, I am Italian and I come from
a wonderful place in Calabria, Southern Italy.
Well, let me go straight to the point: languages are my passion!
My native tongue is – of course – Italian but,
ever since I was a child, I've been studying and learning
many different languages from all around the world.
I'm both a language learner
as well as a language teacher.
On one hand, I hold a master degree in Japanese,
I'm an enthusiastic language learner
and I love linguistics, which is
let's say, the science behind languages.
On the other hand, I'm a certified language teacher
and I feel strongly committed to
conveying my passion to all my students.
I'm finally back to italki after a long pause
that I took in order to perform research into
a very important topic, which is
how to learn a language efficiently!
Thanks to this research, I was able to establish that
the most common misconception about language learning is
thinking that you have to learn
– either by yourself, using a textbook, or with a teacher –
the so called "grammar rules"
and some neverending wordlists
with a cold and abstact approach,
hoping that this would magically lead to
fluency in the new language!
Well, I think that nothing could be further from the truth!
Based on my experience, I would rather suggest
you to get as much exposure as possible
to the language you want to learn.
How?
Interacting with a native speaker
in a particular context
that (1) allows you to
figure out what you are being told
without necessarily understanding every single word you hear,
and (2) that does not make you feel weird or self-conscious
when you try to use the new language.
In fact, it was in a similar context that
I learned Spanish,
during the year that I spent as a visiting student
neither in Spain not in Latin America
but in Paris, France
because I would speak Spanish all the time
with my friends, who were mostly from
Spain or Latin America.
I've never took a single Spanish class in my whole life,
I've never bought a single Spanish textbook in my whole life,
I learned Spanish by speaking it!
The only trick is that I wasn't afraid of speaking it.
I mean that, even if I made a mistake,
I simply didn't care.
Think about it: what happens if someone makes a mistake? Would you kill 'em?
Nothing happens!
I learned Spanish speaking with people
from Galicia, Northern Spain,
from Madrid, from Southern Spain, from the Caribbean,
from Chile, from Latin America, from everywhere,
and that's why Spanish accent sounds a bit "mixed"
and one can't really tell where or from whom I learned Spanish.
Go figure!
Well, when I lived in Paris,
I only spoke Italian and Spanish at first,
with all my friends.
But then I had to learn French
because I needed it in my everyday life
to talk with French people and
– above all – in order to talk with my teacher of Wolof,
in fact, I took some classes of the Wolof language,
which is a language spoken in Senegal and in The Gambia.
There are many languages in Senegal: Wolof, Peul,
Sérère, Mandinka,
Bambara, and many other languages.
There even is the language of "white people": French!
But Wolof is the Senegalese language that I preferred,
and that's the reason why I only studied Wolof.
To tell you the truth, the foreign langugage
that I like the most ever since I was I child
is neither Wolof, nor English, not even Spanish,
it's Japanese!
Studying Japanese allowed me to realize
a very important thing:
learning a language doesn't necessarily
have to be difficult or troublesome!
This is a very important point.
For example, let's talk about
Japanese intonation patterns.
I wasn't taught Japanese "intonation" at univerisity,
I had to study it by myself.
To make a long story short,
when I studied in Japan
I got obsessed with subway announcements
and eveyday I would...
when I got on the train,
everyday I would listen to them,
imitate them and repeat them,
and, as a result,
I learned the intonational patterns of Japanese
in a very funny way!
I wasn't really studying!
Nor was it a difficult thing to do!
So...
in 2015 I challenged myself
to learn German from scratch.
I studied German eveyday for 3 months.
And after 3 months I passed the German B1 exam!
I couldn't believe that I managed to do that
in such a short time!
Well, the truth is anyone can learn a new language,
and the whole process doesn't have to be difficult,
doesn't have to be boring,
doesn't have to be stressful,
actually, it can be very very funny.
In my Italian classes, I use some special techniques
designed to let you absorb the language
while using it from day one.
For further information, please read the description down below,
send me a private message or book a trial lesson!
See you on italki!

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