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Recommended Italian Teachers and Tutors

August 31, 2020 By Cher Leave a Comment

One of the most common questions that we get is if we have any teachers or tutors to recommend both while students are abroad in Italy and while they’re home. 

To answer that question, I turned to all of you – the members of The Iceberg Project community – to ask about your most highly recommended Italian teachers and tutors… and you definitely came through.

Below you’ll find a list of 20 options. Some are native speakers in Italy. Others are native speakers in the US or Canada. And some are English speakers that could offer a different perspective on learning the language.

When possible, I’ve included their full name, location, contact info, and any tidbits about them that readers provided (although I did not include their names for privacy). They are in no particular order.

If you think your tutor or teacher should be included in this list, leave a comment below and we’ll add them!

Finally, to be clear, I’ve only worked with a few people on this list and have not personally vetted them myself. The people I have worked with and LOVED are Blessy, Beatrice Massaro, and Manuela Andragna. 

I hope it’s helpful!


1) Matteo and Katie of Joy of Languages

Website: joyoflanguages.com

Contact: katie@joyoflanguages.com

Student comments: “I am doing a year long online Italian course through joyoflanguages.com – the founder of the school and head teacher is Katie Harris.  I can not recommend her highly enough.  As an experienced ESL teacher, online developer and “professional student” of languages I can highly recommend Katie’s approach in terms of content, instructional design and delivery.  She and her partner Matteo really make learning Italian a lot of fun and I look forward to each new topic.  They also make Easy Italian and 5 minute Italian podcasts which are great.”

2) Rachele 

Contact: https://www.italki.com/teacher/4305174

Location: Milan, Italy

Student comments: “I would recommend Rachele on Italki. She is anything but boring, we laugh a lot and share bits of our lives. She often emails out links to resources she has found to give additional help to her students. She is based in Milano, has young children, if any of these things matter to people.”

3) Riccardo Cristiani

Website: dante-learning.com

Contact: info@dante-learning.com

Location: Milan, Italy

Student comments: “I have been having Skype lessons with Riccardo for 5 years. I’m 68 years old. My 32 year old daughter has also been learning from him for 2 years. He is an intelligent, adaptable, approachable, interesting teacher.  Once you have signed up for lessons, you also receive his challenging and well researched grammar blogs in your inbox every second day.”

4) Irene Caracci 

Website: https://www.duespaghetti-yib.com/

Contact: There is a contact form at the bottom of her homepage on her website.

Location: Milan, Italy

Student comments: “I would like to recommend my teacher Irene Caracci. She lives in Milan, and does Skype lessons. Very fun and knowledgeable.”

5) Ema

Website: https://www.italki.com/teacher/3115093

Location: Rome, Italy

Student comments: “I highly recommend Ema. In particular she specialises in Italian and modern art and fashion and builds this into her lessons.”

6) Martina Scattolin 

Website: italianbites.org

Contact: https://www.italianbites.org/contact/

Location: Venice, Italy

Student comments: “My recommendation for Italian tutoring is, with no reservations, Martina Scattolin. I highly recommend this  accomplished, creative, innovative woman.”

7) Rossella Chiolini

Website: http://www.illuminalanguages.com/

Contact: rossella@illuminalanguages.com

Location: San Diego, CA

Student comments: “I have been taking private lessons with Rossella for years, both in person and now via zoom. I have been studying Italian for the last 20 years and she is the best teacher that I have ever had! I highly recommend her.”

8) Raluca Berger

Contact: ralucaberger@yahoo.com

9) Claudia Cevoli

Contact: allyoucanlearn@gmail.com

Location: Italy

10) Simona Giustini

Contact: simona.giustini@gmail.com

Location: Montreal, Canada

Student comments: “I live in Montreal, Canada and I met her through the Italian Consulate where she teaches. She is from Rome. Beautiful, sweet and a great teacher!”

11) Beatrice Massaro

Website: www.italianoconbeatrice.com

Contact: italianoconbeatrice@gmail.com  

12) Blessy

Contact: https://www.italki.com/teacher/1353852?hl=en

Location: Rome, Italy

Student comments:

  • “Organized and on time
  • Patient and insightful, helps me think outside the box
  • Uses Google docs which is extremely helpful
  • Puts images on the Google Docs and asks that I create a story or dialogue
  • She has very good questions that make me think
  • You have a copy of the Google Docs to study following the lesson
  • Extremely helpful with grammar, giving many good sentence examples
  • She is relaxed, speaks slowly enough to understand.
  • Immersion:  Probably the most important part of her lesson is her Insistence on speaking only in Italian and when you struggle for a word, she asks you to find another one in Italian that is similar. Discourages defaulting to English.”

13) Laura T.

Website: http://www.learn-italian-online.net/

Contact: https://www.italki.com/teacher/3132050

Location: Padua, Italy

Student comments: “I love my tutor and have met her twice in Italy, once in Milan and once in Florence.”

14) Antonella Calvo

Contact: aoneal@odu.edu 

Location: Norfolk, VA

15) Santino Santinelli

Website: www.italianskypelessons.com

Contact: italianskypelessons1@gmail.com

Location: Ascoli Piceno, Italy

16) Sara Zanelletti

Contact: sarazanelletti@gmail.com

Location: Los Angeles, CA

17) Manuela Andragna

Contact: https://www.italki.com/teacher/5763861

Location: Toronto, Canada

18) Monika Dorfmann 

Contact: Monika.dorfmann@gmail.com


Then… there were a couple of people who offered up their services, and I want to make sure they’re included too! 

19) Emily Rothenberg

Contact: emily.rothenberg@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/emilybrothenberg

She says: I am not a native speaker; however I have done professional translation, some interpretation, worked in Italy multiple times, and am an experienced language teacher and private tutor (English, Italian, Spanish). For Italian, I am most comfortable working with people at a beginner through intermediate level. I usually make my own curriculum but can accommodate what someone’s specific needs are (business, conversation, study abroad, etc.). 

20) Niki Nicastro

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niki-nicastro-37226115/

Contact: nikinicastro@gmail.com

Location: NYC

He says: “I am a professional native Italian tutor and translator and I have taught Italian for the past 9 years, on all levels, from absolute beginners to advanced, in groups or privately.

I am “diplomata” in Languages and I have also studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bologna. In Italy I also took diction courses, so I speak Italian precisely, correctly, and without any regional accent. My English is also excellent, so I can explain questions regarding grammar and vocabulary to beginning students. I always personalize lessons depending on the age, level and goals of my students. I do have a method and always try to create new ways to learn this wonderful language, however, all the lessons and the programs are custom for each learner. I am based in New York where I have been living for 10 years, and I am available to teach online via Skype, Zoom or Facetime. At the moment I have students everywhere in the states and abroad, and the age of my students are from 4 to 80 right now!

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About Cher

Cher is the founder of The Iceberg Project and a passionate learner of the Italian, Mandarin and Spanish languages. In a little town called Vegas, you can find her searching the Internet for Doctor Who and Parks & Rec memes, drinking bubble tea, or talking about how much she loves grammar.

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