A learner writing notes in a notebook during an Italian lesson

Private Italian Classes

You want to learn Italian, but you want it to actually work for you. Just you, your goals, and a teacher who builds every lesson around how you learn best. With private lessons you'll finally speak the way you've always wanted to: because nothing here is generic.

Get Started!

Learning Italian on your own can feel like hitting the same wall over and over.

Some days it's the basics that trip you up: sounds that don't match what's written, verbs that change shape for no obvious reason.

Other times you've already tried something: an app, maybe a group course and it just doesn't fit: too generic, too rigid, or simply not built around how you actually learn.

Two people arranging sticky notes on a table while planning together

The result, more often than not:

You never quite know where to focus.

Mistakes feel like something to avoid, not learn from.

Grammar rules pile up without ever clicking into place.

Speaking still feels miles away, no matter how much you've studied.

And in the moment it actually counts, a real conversation, your mind goes blank.

Here's what nobody tells you: learning alone makes Italian harder, not easier.

No app corrects the way you actually pronounce a word. No group course pauses because you personally need a minute. And no textbook has ever answered a question in real time.

Private lessons flip that completely because the entire lesson is shaped around you.

Full attention, from lesson one.

A method that bends to your pace, not the other way around.

Corrections and explanations that happen live, not two chapters later.

Conversation practice that actually builds confidence, not anxiety.

I feel exactly like that!

Private lessons with Eleonora are designed to get you speaking with real confidence and to see progress you can actually feel, lesson after lesson.

Whether you're preparing for your next trip to Italy or working toward real fluency, this is built around you.

When You Start Private Lessons, You'll Get

A Plan Built Just for You

After our first conversation, I'll shape a path around your goals, your interests, and the way you personally learn best: no fixed syllabus, no wasted lessons.

Full Attention,
Every Single Lesson

In a private lesson, you're the only focus. No holding back questions, no rushing past something you didn't quite get we move at your pace.

Flexible Schedule

Life gets busy. Lessons adapt to your calendar, not the other way around, so your progress stays consistent.

See Pricing & Book

Welcome, I'm Eleonora!

I used to think I just wasn't a "language person."

Years of English and French classes, decent grades, zero ability to actually speak when it mattered. I'm Eleonora, and before I ever taught Italian, I was the one freezing mid-sentence, switching back to my own language out of pure panic.

Moving to Dublin, then later to Paris, changed that not because of a class, but because I finally stopped studying the language and started living in it. Daily podcasts, real conversations, books that pushed me a little further each time, mistake after mistake until it stuck.

That's the entire foundation of The Italianity Project.

I've since trained formally: I hold a certification in teaching Italian as a foreign language, and I keep up with current approaches to how languages are really learned.

But everything I teach was tested on myself first, in two languages, long before I taught a third.

If grammar drills never got you speaking, this is built differently: real materials, real conversation, real culture, from day one.

Portrait of Eleonora, founder of The Italianity Project