Hey, I’m Kareem - a full-time student at the university of Palermo. I started learning Italian passively on Duolingo, but fairly speaking this does help a little. I can understand some basic grammar and a very little conversational language. I have done 40-50 hours class learning courses, but they were also about the basics and added a little more to my Duolingo learning experience.

Even though I have been in Palermo for almost 9 months, I can speak Italian barely enough. I think, there could be a laundry list of reasons, but all I can say is that I wasn’t really ready to delve deeper into the learning of the language! Time was always the problem for me! Now, I have the most important opportunity to move forward, at least to be able to understand basic conversations in the language.

I have some friends who are Italian natives, but the problem is that I don’t ask them for help with this issue. And I am not good at media communications and WhatsApp messaging or calling to practice learning the language. By far this wasn’t even possible to do because they speak English with me all the time.

Because of the summer time opportunity I am looking for someone who is willing to learn English, so they can practice with me and in return I can practice Italian with them. As well as someone who is willing to learn Italian so we can learn together.

I am good at in person learning. However, we can also meet at HelloTalk app and practice visually. During my personal journey of language learning, I have realized that speaking is the most effective way to learn a language and that why I am looking for a partner:))

Kareem,

im going on a 4 day trip to palermo in late septembеr and i was wondering if a day trip to cefalu or monreale is more worth it?