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Danielle Oteri

Danielle Oteri, like many Italians, grew up with the majority of her family living on the same street. However, she didn't discover just how Italian that was until she first visited Italy to spend a month painting in Florence. Several years after college, she returned to spend a year studying art history and Italian language. Danielle travelled extensively in Southern Italy where she hitchhiked, haggled, warded off a malocchio, and ate too many sfogliatelle.

Bonnie Smetts

Bonnie Smetts first fell in love with Italian when she decided to take a few classes before visiting a friend who’d moved to Umbria. Five years later, she’s studied all the grammar, read stack of classics, and participated in myriad conversation groups. The time has come for her to be fluent in Italian.

Britten Milliman

Britten Milliman is a native of Rockland County, New York, whose interest in foreign languages began at age three (when her cousin introduced her to Spanish). She grew up in an English-only household and is now fully fluent in Spanish, Italian and Arabic. But she well remembers everything that made her want to pull her hair out when acquiring those languages.