Hello everyone, I'm Claudio and I have been living in Madrid since 2016.

I was born in Caserta, Italy but I spent my childhood in Milan and Isernia. Then I moved to Brussels where I studied a Bachelor degree in Translation and Interpreting. During my third year, I did an exchange in Beijing, China.

I moved to Madrid because my best friend was here. Meanwhile I did a Master in Linguistics and one in Teaching and that is why I ended up being a teacher in a secondary school.

My passion for languages and other cultures brought me to my profession. I think the most rewarding in life is see your students achieving their goals and be part of their learning process.

I am an animal lover and a good chef and eater. I think that you can learn a lot about people by how they cook and eat!

I love travelling even though now I stopped moving around the world every weekend.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Started this amazing experience in November 2014 thanks to my flatmate Mada in Brussels, We had people coming over for a whole year every day and it was amazing!

Interesting people coming to share some moments of their lives with you it is one of the best thing you can ever get in life.

Couchsurfing is a philosophy, travelling for free, meeting awesome people, knowing more about other countries and most importantly about yourself!

Interests

Languages have always been one of the biggest interests in my life. I would love to speak to everyone in their mother tongue but my brain has been asking for mercy for a long time now.

Currently I speak Italian, English, French and Spanish fluently.

I can have a conversation in Dutch and Chinese and I am an intermediate speaker in Japanese.

I would love to add Arabic, Hebrew and Korean to my list!

• animals
• cooking
• languages
• art
• travelling
• linguistics
• translation

Music, Movies, and Books

I do not have a type of music that I like the most, it really depends on the moment. I could go from Ancient Instrumental Japanese Music to Metal.

I really fancy fantasy books and films. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings but also Murakami and Classics from English Literature.

I started a collection of Harry Potter books when I was a teenager and I have not stopped since.

If you come visit me and have one of these books, please let me know! I only have eight versions left to complete my collection!

Here is the list of those missing:

Tagalog (Filipino)
Greenlandic
Gujarati
Khmer
Malayalam
Nepali
Tamil
Tibetan

It might be very difficult to find them!

Films: Memoirs of a Geisha, Moulin Rouge, Avatar, Harry Potter, Jeux d'enfants, The Gladiator, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, Gone Girl, Kingsmen, Miyazaki, Almodovar, Hector and the pursue of happiness, Man up

TV Series: Jane the Virgin, How to get away with murder, Shameless, Game of Thrones, Devious Maids, Queer as Folk, Orange is the new Black, Will&Grace, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Miranda, The Whispers, Younger, Flesh and Bone, Sherlock, Stranger things, Scream Queens, Black Mirror, Sense8, Orphan Balck, The Crown, The end of the fu****g world, New girl, Lovesick, Merlí, Broadchurch, The Handsmaid Tale, Élite, La casa de papel, The Witcher, Teen Titans, Hawkeye, What if, Alice in Borderland, The Circle, Rupaul Drag Race.

Writers: J.K. Rowling, Murakami, Lewis Carroll, Hemingway, Zafón, García Márquez, Allende, Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginie Despentes, Pirandello etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- When in Tromsø, Norway, I had the chance to see the Northern Lights

- Ate the best pizza in the world, in Naples at Sorbillo

- Meeting awesome people thanks to this website!

- When 14 years old I learnt how to count from 1 to 10 in 40 languages

- Went to a remote part of the Great Wall of China

- At Wangfujin, Beijing, I have tried the most incredible snacks ever

- Moved to Madrid to live in the same city of my best friend

- In July 2019 I did an Interrail from Turkey back to Spain

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching Learning and Sharing are my Heart, Lungs and Liver.

Open to everything new, I love sharing what I know, teaching what you do not know and learn from you!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love sharing my passions for languages, books, films, animals, cooking etc.

I can show you the city if I am free and recommend some nice places to eat!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom