What's your secret ambition? What's your secret ambitiona dn why? Tell us about it, explaining what you think it'd take to achieve your ambition and why you think you've got what it takes. Entry: Just in 2015, more than 100.000 italians chose to move to a foreign country, according a report of Fondazione Migrantes. I am one of them, and I moved abroad not because of the ecomonic crisis, but in order to fulfil my lifelong ambition of becoming a teacher. I've never thought I was cut out for teaching Italian to foreign students, but I realized the best way to start this long-term journey was to move abroad and get experience. Teaching your native language is no easy feat, as you've probably never studied utterly the syntax, the grammar or the phonetic of your mother tongue, and this is the first requirement to achieve if you want to be a good teacher. Once you take the grammar in your stride, you can more easily teach it to your students, or even explain them idiomatic expressions you had taken for granted for all your life. Furthermore, clarity in explanation is essential, if you want your students to feel confortable in using slangs, in speaking and learning properly your native language. To face this challenge you'll probably need to learn one or more foreign languages on a high level, as they can help you to get where your students' comprehension doesn't get, especially when daily or idiomatic expressions apparently have no reasonable meaning. But being a teacher doesn't mean to be a good teacher! I do think that successful teachers possess a great love for their language and country, as only with that feeling they can sort out all the problems their students may meet in learning. If the teacher is able to trasmit their love for their culture and their mother tongue, the students will have nothing but desire to keep improving their skills. Speaking a new language is difficult, but teaching it is even harder. It represents an overall commitment that might never come to an end. The failure is always behind the corner but we need to be assured of success and never stop working, even though it means burning the midnight oil every day.