Eva U.

Hello! My first experience with Italian was as a 16-year-old high school student placed with a local family in Viterbo, Italy. There, I learned Italian as a means of communicating with my host family and connecting with this new and exciting culture I'd found myself in. I learned Italian on my feet, and my formal classes couldn't keep pace with what I was absorbing in real life. So when I went to Middlebury College, I decided to build those grammatical foundations and deepen what I'd learned thr…