Teaching and imparting knowledge is a mission. Learning is a lifestyle. I work with people who understand it, and I am grateful for it. You come from different backgrounds and countries. Each of you brings your own story with you, and above all, you bring with you the motivation that makes us meet.

You are all inspiring people who turned to me with a request to open the door to an unknown world. In addition to the love for the culture and the language we learn together, many other things connect me with each of you, be it interests, opinions, preferences. There is something extra in each of you.

Many times you come to me with humility, even fear, because you do not consider languages to be your strong point, some of you even declare yourself to be a "total anti-talent". And that is an even greater motivation for me, because the only obstacle in our progress is often only ourselves and the opinion we have identified with. But then the beautiful moments come: how a professional soldier passes a Latin exam and what he previously thought was a guillotine is suddenly quite pleasant, how the receptionist enjoys the visit of Italian guests, to whom he can say only a few words, but nevertheless it makes his day; how some of you find yourself through language because you realize it is a part of you; how one member of the family "italianizes" everyone and suddenly the family becomes lovers of languages; how do you cook, work, put the children to sleep and drive with languages?

There are also those among you who are very afraid for some reason, and yet you go for it. Or you'll use your language to get back to your Sicilian roots or reconcile with an angry Albanian father. Alternatively, you will tell me with a sad face that out of 150 Italian museums, you have only seen 130, and in retirement you will also work as a cleaner in the Uffizi, just to be there. You will surprisingly find that it is not only "at home" in Bratislava, Nitra, Trenčín, Bardejov, Košice or Liptovský Mikuláš... but also in Firenze, Sarajevo, Rome, Shkodër, Saranda, Palermo and Zagreb. You will also learn that it doesn't matter if you make a lot of mistakes in your mother tongue when you read Caesar in the originals...

There is much more to each of you... That is also why my primary goal is for you to overcome yourself and achieve the goal with which you came to me. Each of these little things gives me satisfaction and I am honored to know each of you. You also teach me many things, and your observations are a valuable note for me, which sometimes has quite a  significant impact.


I am glad that you chose me and I am glad that I can open the door to a new world for you. I often regret that the lessons only have 60 minutes. Sometimes it is difficult to end the lesson because I want you to feel good and the language to be a joy for you. The hardest thing is to end the whole teaching process, when I feel sad many times, but in the end I say to myself that you are good. I am proud of you and I am happy that I could once again walk the path of discovering the secrets of the language ... you will leave, but the new world will remain.

Thank you all!