It is a pleasure to recommend Davide Valenti as an Italian instructor. I studied under Davide for approximately two years, and enjoyed our work together. Davide is a gifted teacher, who is always prepared to move you forward each and every lesson. He is kind in making corrections that are needed, carefully explaining the correct usage of words or phrases and, on occasion when warranted, how to express alternate usages. As a practicing psychoanalyst, I am keenly aware of how humiliating learning and practicing a new language can sometimes be. I can honestly say that I never felt that with Davide whose patience, more often than not, exceeded mine. I wanted to learn to speak Italian, having heard it spoken on both sides of my family as a child and young adult. Both of my parents are now gone, and I miss the music of the language that I heard as a child but could never understand. Davide brought that music back to me along with understanding. I highly recommend him to you.