👋🏻 Hi, my name is Brandon. I am a native Italian teacher and a language guide.

Helping people find their own voice in this language is one of the things I love most in life. It’s a desire that burns like a flame in my heart and has always been with me.

Over time, I’ve noticed that my natural way of being leads me to become a friendly guide, a sort of mentor. That’s why I decided to call it: LA BUSSOLA ITALIANA® 🧭🇮🇹 (Click to learn more) 

With me, you will find a welcoming atmosphere. We will learn together in a relaxed environment where you can feel at ease. I teach with presence, respect and empathy, enthusiasm and spontaneity. You are a person, not a student — and this is the most important thing.

• Who this path is for: This path is designed for anyone who truly wants to come into contact with Italian, whatever their starting point may be.

- For those who are starting from zero, or for those who want to improve their skills.

- It is for university students who need to pass exams or revise projects, as well as for amateur learners.

- For singers, actors, performers, speakers, and other non-native Italian speakers for whom the voice is a working tool, and who want to improve pronunciation, tone, fluency, and expressive naturalness in Italian.

Quick details 

🎁Free 60-minute trial lesson🎁

My lessons are one-to-one (60–70 minutes) and highly personalized.

For occasional lessons, suitable for short-term specific needs, we will organize them case by case:

• 1 lesson – €20/h - [trial lesson not available]

If you are looking for a learning path instead, you are entitled to a trial lesson with no obligation. After that, if you decide to start, we can choose together the rhythm that suits you best, based on your goals and your schedule. I usually offer these options:

• 4 lessons per month: €76 • - 19/h

• 8 lessons per month: €144 • - 18/h

• 12 lessons per month: €192 • - 16/h

• 16 lessons per month: €240 • - 15/h

If you need to reschedule or cancel a lesson, please let me know as soon as possible, preferably the day before, or at the latest by midnight of the previous day (Italian time), so that I can manage my time effectively. Unused lessons can be made up within the following month.

These are not standard lessons, but an exploratory path through which you can absorb the Italian language and get to know it from within, so that what you learn is not just stored information, but awareness that comes from real experience.

The heart of the method

• Experiential method: 

Together we will imitate characters from engaging stories, and we will sing songs that accompanied the last two generations of Italians. All of this will remain constantly connected to a diction course, so that you can understand the dynamics of standard pronunciation in everyday life and develop a conscious listening ability that will serve as a constant model for you.

We will speak a great deal together, and in the meantime I will take note of the new words and expressions we encounter, explaining their context of use and their possible nuances.

“Grammar” is not a sterile list of rules, but a tool for turning the interweaving of our thoughts and emotions into sentences. I will guide you toward a more transparent understanding of how sentences are built, from the simplest to the most complex.

• 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 Ongoing support:

If you have any questions after the lesson, you can contact me on WhatsApp or WeChat. I will reply as quickly as possible. I believe that removing small, sudden blocks can be crucial to moving forward more smoothly.

• 🌿 A memorable experience: 

Learning a language does not mean memorizing rules and vocabulary, but absorbing another way of feeling and thinking, through which we can add new facets to our personality and gain new points of view from which to evaluate reality.

I believe this deeply, and it is with this state of mind that I devote myself to learning and teaching every day. Many students tell me that this experience has changed them, not only in the way they speak Italian, but also in the way they relate to themselves and to the world around them.