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Stefano Di Cicco

Teaches at Idlewild Books

Stefano Di Cicco, a native of Rome with more than 15 years' experience teaching Italian in New York, including three years at Idlewild. Stefano employs a dynamic method that gets students speaking Italian from the very first class, but is also able to give clear, concise grammar explanations in English where necessary. Stefano's classes are fun and participatory, and several students who have studied Italian elsewhere tell us Stefano is the best Italian teacher they've ever had and they're surprised how quickly their speaking ability improved while taking his class.

Reviews of Stefano Di Cicco

(14 Reviews)
  • Italian for Beginners

    Reviewed by Julia G. on 2/24/2021
  • Italian for Beginners

    Reviewed by Cathy T. on 9/3/2020
    Love this class
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Anonymous review on 4/21/2020
    The instructor is good but if you just started in Idlewild’s Beginner class and then move on to Advanced Beginner, the jump between the two levels is pretty big and I had a hard time keeping up. The rest of the students had taken Italian in college or high school with several years of lessons and I only had 7 weeks going into this class. It would be a lot more helpful if the progression between the two levels was more gradual.
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Anonymous review on 2/18/2020
    Loved Stefano and it was nice to remind myself how much (and how little!) Italian i already know.
  • Italian for Beginners

    Anonymous review on 12/20/2019
    The instructor was very nice. The curriculum, however, did not help me learn much Italian... It is designed to review homework and read over the printed curriculum covering a ton of information and then expecting the students to go home and study that information for at least an hour a day. I could not keep up with the homework and skipped the last 2 classes. I wish we had more conversational instruction and less home based workload.
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Reviewed by Richard F. on 7/1/2019
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Reviewed by Marina S. on 12/15/2017
  • Italian for Beginners

    Anonymous review on 10/21/2017
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Anonymous review on 8/24/2017
  • Italian Intermediate

    Anonymous review on 8/24/2017
    The amount of conversation was helpful but Stefano did not reach out to everyone to participate and would sometimes talk to one person for 10 minutes excluding other students in the class. Could have incorporated more grammar review.
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Anonymous review on 4/20/2017
    I definitely learned a lot in this class, and I loved the atmosphere of the location, but it all seemed a little disorganized -- we bought the textbook and didn't use it except for homework exercises (which we didn't need to turn in, since the answers are in the book); instead, we used a lot of online resources the instructor liked. The class didn't bear a whole lot of resemblance to the syllabus, and sometimes it felt like the instructor was making things up as he went along. On days when we had to jump around from site to site on our phones, I didn't like it at all (though it did introduce us to good resources for future reference); on days when we focused on conversation, it was great.
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Anonymous review on 4/19/2017
    We covered some useful material, but the class is a bit disorganized.
  • Italian Intermediate

    Reviewed by Janine C. on 2/28/2017
    Excellent class - teacher very professional and engaging. The space is wonderful - charming.
  • Italian Advanced Beginner

    Reviewed by Kathryn L. on 9/1/2016
    Stefano is the best! Grazie! He made class fun and interesting

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