Lotje Lomme studied History in Bologna and Italian and didactics in Utrecht. She has been teaching Italian for 15 years, and has provided several online training courses for This is Italian and gives private lessons Italian and NT2 for Italians. Online and in person in Schoonhoven. She also baked Italian cakes for a Dutch café, interpreted for an Italian artist, translated poems by Alda Merini, made fresh lasagna for the Thuisgekookt Foundation, and guided Italian tourists through Keukenhof.
I have been a teacher for 15 years and I always find it interesting to see how other Italian teachers and language schools are doing. These schools are often one-stop shops that do most of the work themselves: the administration, the financial and accounting side, the marketing and – you would almost forget – the teaching. One of those entrepreneurs […] More
My parents thought Lotje was a beautiful name. I also think it's a beautiful name. It alliterates with my last name, as a Dutch teacher pointed out to me in high school. Lotje has a bit of a childish quality about her, that's for sure. There are children's books by Jaap ter Haar with the main character Lotje. If people only contact me through […] More
This is the 9th part of a 10-part series about how it took me 20 years to become a certified Italian teacher. In part 8 you could read about my early years as an Italian teacher, how Italian kept me going in difficult times and why the bond with another country […] More
This is the 8th part of a 10-part series about how it took me 20 years to become a certified Italian teacher. In part 7 you could read how I deepened my knowledge of Italian at B2 level in Utrecht and obtained my teaching diploma for history. This blog is about the C1 level. […] More
This is the 7th part of a 10-part series about how it took me 20 years to become a certified Italian teacher. In part 6 you could read what my 2 months in the Eternal City were like and how I graduated for my bachelor's degree in Language and Cultural Studies in Utrecht. In this blog you can […] More
