Episode 5: Valentina Colasuonno-Meet my Italian Teacher!
Ciao tutti!
If you know me, or if you’ve read AfterLIFE, you know how important my experience of learning Italian and connecting with that part of my heritage has been to my growth and happiness. Valentina Colasuonno has been there for most of that journey helping me not only learn the language, but also helping me understand the history, culture, and food of Italy.
For just over 3 years we have spent 2 hours a week nearly every week speaking Italian to one another. She patiently listens as I stumble my way through the learning process as I’ve tried to talk about some of the ideas that eventually made their way into afterlife or sometimes we just talk about pasta, pizza, travel, or cats!
In this episode we dive right into all kinds of topics, just like in our lessons except for today we spoke in English, with only a few dashes of Italian.
Many friends have been curious about my lessons, so I wanted to introduce my teacher to you all. Our lessons are as light and easy as the conversation you’ll hear in this episode.
Valentina has a Youtube channel called How to Italiano that has some great lessons. Here’s a cooking episode that’s AWESOME!!
If you’d like to try some lessons you can find her on Italki Here
And you can find lots of her fun and helpful content on Instagram Here.
Saying Yes to learning Italian has been one of the most fun things I’ve done on my journey these past several years. If your thinking about it just try. If you have questions about my experience let me know!
Other resources mentioned during the podcast:
https://www.italki.com/ (resource for finding language tutors in I don’t even know how many languages…but you’ll likely find what you’re looking for! Hopefully)
https://preply.com/ (another resource for finding language tutors)
https://www.language-exchanges.org/ (a free language learning exchange community)
So now please enjoy my 5th Episode of It's the Journey with Valentina!