Comment #1
(Posted by Nathalie) Rating
Ray -
Great job! I fully support your mission of teaching people to efficiently learn a language. It's totally doable, and with people like you sharing the wisdom you gained from ineffective language classes, we'll get the word out.
Keep up the great work!
Comment #2
(Posted by maia(Italian)(Maya-Eng)) Rating
Once upon a time I too was a teacher,not being a teacher and earned best teacher award.I really feel U'll be a very,very good teacher
Comment #3
(Posted by Nicholas) Rating
Thanks for your guts to expose the mistake of teeachers in teaching a new language.I get ecouraged to forge ahead although i have spent most of my time on hyper grammer and hyper focus on dialogue. Am now convinced that i can know the language using the five tools.Do the teachers know this?
Comment #4
(Posted by tom brotz) Rating
I stumbled onto your website last night. Your 5 steps are surely excellent advice. The fact that there is no commercialistic hype in your presentations is incredibly refreshing. I have never spent as many hours per day on my study of Italian as you suggest. I've been putting in 3 or more hours per week for about 4 years. I've done Rosetta Stone levels 1 & 2. At Italidea in Chicago I've taken Beginning Levels 1-3 and Intermediate Levels 1-3 (six courses over a span of about 4 years). I've been to Italy 4 times for 1-3 weeks per stay. I study singing opera with Valerio Paperi in Rome. I've been to Florence, Sienna, Napoli, Perugia, Ancona, Assisi and other small towns. I have a Ph.D. in music education but I make my living as a statistical programmer for Astellas Pharma Global Development US - the R&D division of the company in Deerfield, Illinois.
Back to Italian. I have read Dual Language books. I have. I have bought children's books from Alma Edizioni; for example, Ambaraba which has children's songs too. Per your suggestion I'll checking out Italiannow, BIKI, and Easy Italian Readers. I haven't succeeded in finding Italian movies/video via internet but I'll keep looking.
Thank you for being you and doing what you're doing.
I'll be visiting your website for more educational ideas.
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