About me

My passion for foreign languages started at school and its roots may go back to the family. My father emigrated to Germany in 1956, my mother followed him 10 years later. I grew up speaking two languages.
The school subjects I was good at were German, English and French. However, I decided to accomplish an apprenticeship in the German dual system and became an industrial clerk after the diploma of secondary school.

Then I emigrated to Italy and graduated in Business Studies. After university studies I passed the examination for translators at Pescara’s Chamber of Commerce and since then I have been working as a translator.

My activities in the field of foreign language soon expanded and, thanks to the advice of a friend, I applied for teaching as conversation teacher at Italian pubblic schools. At the same time, I worked as a mothertongue teacher for German in private schools. In 2014 I attended a qualification course (called PAS in Italian) at UNINT University in Rome and I obtained the certificate of competence for teaching German conversation.

In those years I mainly worked as a teacher and I realised that something was missing: a language study. I therefore registered in 2012 at the university „Università degli Studi G. d’Annuzio“ in Pescara and graduated in 2015 in Anglistics and German Language and Literature Studies.

In the same year I moved back to Germany and worked during the first months as German and English teacher in a private school. During those months, I obtained the special qualification for teaching German as a second language in courses for migrants and refugees. This gave me the opportunity to teach in those courses at the Volkshochschule Esslingen. Some time later, after a special course, I got the qualification for teaching in alphabetization courses.

I achieved the license as examiner for the B1, B2 and C2 exams at the telc institute in 2017.

Another passion of mine is e-learning. I successfully attended a one-year master at Florence University in 2011. I love creating online courses on Moodle platforms and developing learning objects.
In Germany I enhanced my skills in this field by attending a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for „OER-Experts“.

One of the most enthusiastic aspects of my work is the contact with people from all over the world and all the beautiful things that arise from it: to learn about different life stories, cultures and so on. Each person is different from the other and each time it is a challenge for me as a teacher to adapt to their needs.