“What’s the one most important thing that students get after having worked with you?” This was a question that I got asked in a professional development course a few years ago.

I didn’t know back then and so I decided to interview all my students to find the answer

After reviewing dozens and dozens of answers, I realised there was one phrase that got repeated again and again in those questionnaires in a variety of ways, and it was this, “You gave me lots of confidence.”

Finding this out made me really happy, of course 😊, but it also left me with more questions…

Back then, it wasn’t something I was consciously doing. So I went on a quest to better understand how I was doing it because I thought,

“If I could teach my students how to find confidence in themselves, even in the most challenging situations, it would make a real difference in their lives.”

I wanted my students to become comfortable doing the uncomfortable, not only inside the “classroom” but also outside — because as we know, when you learn a language and start to use it “in the real world,” there is loads of stuff you need to do that requires you to be uncomfortable!

“If my students learn that, they will become unstoppable. Unstoppable in their learning but also in their life,” I thought.

This is how I found out one of the main reasons why I do what I do and why I come up with things like “Confident Italian” and all the stuff I teach —that are related to the Italian language, but they also go beyond the language.

And I am SO committed to this work because I know that if it can change even just a handful of people (and make more confident and happier), I’ll have played my tiny part in this BIG world.

If you are willing to allow me to make a difference in your world, take my hand, and let’s go…

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