Antonio Messina (Los Angeles)
Antonio Messina (Los Angeles)

Antonio Messina (Los Angeles)

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Introduction: ATT ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS: I live in LOS ANGELES (Beverly Hills) and can ONLY tutor you AT HOME in the LOS ANGELES area for a $40.00 a lesson rate or tutor you ONLINE for a $30.00 a lesson rate. I want to be AFFORDABLE!!! Notice that if you scroll down to the bottom of this profile, you will be offered ALTERNATE teachers who are ALL more EXPENSIVE than I am. My goal is to offer you the BEST bang for the BUCK. If I teach/tutor you at home, it's to your advantage, you can relax and just wait for me to show up; if you don't want to be taught at home, I STRONGLY suggest a public library study room, they're usually quiet and CONDUCIVE to learning. Starbucks and Coffe Bean are frequently NOISY and NOT conducive to learning. IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF LOS ANGELES: I can ONLY tutor you ONLINE, for a $30.00 a lesson rate. Online Classes work; as long as you have a good computer and good internet service, you will make progress and learn Italian with me. I have or have had students in Florida, Texas, Ohio and Michigan, and they've all done very well learning online. NOW, let's answer the question "Why should you hire me?". Please read the 44 five-star reviews I've received on this website. I don't think you have to read all of them. After reading four or five, you should get the idea. I also teach at LA Harbor Community College in Wilmington, CA. At the moment, classes there have been suspended, because the LAHC Adult Ed program has been put temporarily on hiatus. Once they start up again, I will notify you here. The key to learning a foreign language is to go at your own pace, if you're not sure about what's covered in a lesson, we just go back and review it. Group classes place unnecessary pressure on students to keep going to the next chapter, even if no one fully understood the preceding chapter. Most of us don't realize that we learned our mother tongue the same way, by constant repetition, that's why it comes so easy to us. I will give you ALL THE REPETITION YOU NEED, I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU LEARN, YOUR GOAL IS MY GOAL. Students need to hear various speakers, on well produced websites or on Italian radio; radio is good, but the websites are better because some of them give you the chance to HEAR the spoken language while simultaneously READING it and memorizing vocabulary. I teach intermediate and advanced students with Italian movies on Italian-produced DVDs, with subtitles in Italian (which are intended for the hearing impaired). You get a chance to LISTEN and READ. Both are important. Another nice thing about subtitled movies is that the subtitles tend to summarize rather than go verbatim, so you can learn different forms of self-expression and find the linguistic style that's right for you. By mixing all these various mediums, you'll be racing on the Italian language highway, rather than getting stuck at the detours. But I'll be there to guide you, not only with great books w/CD-roms but with great web tools that will help you navigate trough the grammar and verb conjugation maze with amazing ease. We leave nothing to chance and we ask questions when we're not sure of something. If you stumble on pronunciation, we'll go over all those problem words, I'll make accurate recordings of whatever you have trouble saying and you'll be saying it right in no time. This isn't a gimmick, you going to have to work hard, WE are going to have to work hard, but if you make the effort you'll get FAST results. And please, do not underestimate the POWER and the IMPORTANCE of GRAMMAR. I got dropped into first grade in a Florentine school at the age of five, without knowing a word of Italian. I was lucky, I had a teacher who was patient and she kept me after class and gave me private lessons. I didn't know it at the time, but she was teaching me GRAMMAR. And it all started to make sense. I became of her best Italian students. Older people cannot absorb as readily as children, but they can compensate through organization, and I'll be there to help you organize every step of the way. And you'll start having fun, you'll start speaking Italian like an Italian.
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Lidia M.
Dec 29, 2015
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ESL (English as a Second Language) Lessons
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Elizabeth G.
Jan 14, 2018
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Details: 45 - 64 years old • No experience • Conversational proficiency • No experience • No experience • Basic reading/writing skills • More than once a week • 60 minutes • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Saturday • Late afternoon (3 - 6pm) • Evening (after 6pm) • On an ongoing basis • Willing to work around teacher's schedule • Need some more information before hiring • I travel to the italian tutor • The italian tutor travels to me

Antonio Messina (Los Angeles)'s reply
Thank you, Elizabeth, down the line you can write a little verbal review, after we have a few lessons....
Italian Lessons
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Danielle C.
Apr 24, 2018
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Details: 45 - 64 years old • Beginner • Full fluency • Beginner • No experience • Basic reading/writing skills • Once a week • 60 minutes • Monday • Tuesday • Late afternoon (3 - 6pm) • Early afternoon (noon - 3pm) • Evening (after 6pm) • On an ongoing basis • Willing to work around teacher's schedule • Conducting initial research • The italian tutor travels to me

Italian Lessons
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Yvette W.
Mar 15, 2019
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Details: 45 - 64 years old • No experience • Full fluency • No experience • No experience • Full literacy • 45 minutes • Phone or internet (no in-person meeting)

Antonio Messina (Los Angeles)'s reply
Thank you for your five star rating
Italian Lessons
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Marcia I.
Apr 20, 2019
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Details: 45 - 64 years old • Beginner • Full fluency • Beginner • Beginner • Basic reading/writing skills • 60 minutes • Phone or internet (no in-person meeting)

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