Italian Language Courses in Italy: Bologna

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Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy

Bologna is an old university city with lavish walkways and squares, fine historic buildings, and an interesting medieval center. Bologna, Italy is known for its beauty, great cuisine, and its left-wing politics. Bologna is home to the former Italian communist party and its newspaper, L'Unita, and has an active gay community. Join us on our Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy and learn Italian in one of Italy's most interesting location.

Bologna is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. Bologna is less than an hour inland from the east coast and about halfway between Florence and Milan. It is a main transportation hub for several train lines with easy access to Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and both coasts.

Bologna's historic center is a short walk from the train station but you can also take a bus. Most of the compact historic center is closed to traffic and is great for walking. There is good public transportation in the rest of Bologna. There is also a small airport outside Bologna.

Handmade egg pasta and stuffed pasta, especially tortellini, are specialties of Bologna and of course, there is the famous spaghetti alla bolognese, with a long cooked meat sauce. The city is also known for its salami and ham. The cuisine of the Emilia-Romagna region is some of the best in Italy.

Bologna has several summer entertainment options in July and August. There is a daily open-air disco in Parco Cavaioni on the outskirts of the city and the city-sponsored Bologna Sogna series, with concerts at museums and buildings around town. During the rest of the year, there is lots of nightlife for young people in the university area.

The city's compact medieval center has several beautiful churches, monuments, and civic buildings. There is plenty of opportunity for pleasant walking and window shopping. One of Bologna's central squares, Piazza Maggiore, is lined with arcades. It's a good place to sit at an outdoor cafe. Around the square are the Gothic Basilica of San Petronio, the Palazzo dei Notai, and the Archeological Museum. Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, another of Bologna's main squares, has an ornate 16th-century fountain in the center and is surrounded by medieval civic buildings. Other attractions are the medieval towers and decorated buildings, which are a delight to look at.

Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy - Fees

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Our Italian Language School in Bologna, Italy

We offer Italian language courses in Bologna, Italy a town not yet discovered by mass tourism. Here is the place most Italians would like to live, according to statistics. So in our school you will find the typical warm atmosphere of the Italian life style.

We are specialized in the teaching of Italian language courses for adults, not for teenagers. Due to our experience in providing Italian courses in Italy, we occasionally host individuals and groups of school-aged students, for which special classes are organized. The average number of students is about 100 from different countries (65% Europeans, 16% Americans, 14% Asians, 4% Australians, 0,2% Africans).

Our Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy

Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy begin on Monday with the classification test for 10 different levels. They consist of 20 lesson-hours plus 10 hours of extracurricular programs per week. The first part of the lesson is focused on grammar structure and vocabulary, the second part on expression and communication. The lesson is each of 50 minutes. Besides the normal classes of 6-12 students the school also offers small group classes with 3-5 or 2 person and individual classes. At the end of the course the participant receives a certificate valid for professional goals.

The Active Learning Classes are held by professional teachers with lots of experience in teaching Italian language courses in Italy. Classes consist of learning the forms of the Italian language, its rules and its communicative use. Particular care will be given to the usage of the language, to expression, to a good comprehension and to the ability to use the language in particular situations. Because of the intensive character, our courses require much cooperation from the participants. About 2 hours' homework per day is expected of each student. You can take the homework at home or at our Italian language school with a tutor. In case of didactic differences within a single class, the school suggests to divide the class into smaller groups and reduce the class-time as follows: 4-5 people: three lesson-hours; 2-3 people: two and a half lesson-hours; 1 person: one and a quarter lesson-hour. The work within small groups is more pleasant and even more effective than that in classes of 6-12 people. As such, they will achieve the same results.

Standard Group Course

20 hours per week 6-12 students per class

10 hours per week of extracurricular activities

2 hours per day of homework at home or at school with a tutor

Small Group Course

Same as intensive but only 3-5 participants per class

If there are no other participants at the same level, the student is free to choose either:

A. The intensive course 6-12 people of four hours a day, 20 hours a week, plus an additional individual hour each day, i.e. five hours of additional one-to-one instruction per week without any extra charge

B. The intensive course 6-12 person course of four hours a day, 20 hours a week, with the same price of the intensive course 6-12 people)

Certificate and University Diploma

At the end of the Italian language course the School confers a certificate of participation indicating the level attended. Our Italian language school in Bologna is also a recognized Centre for the preparation for Siena University's Certificate

Specially Designed Courses

Our school in Bologna also offers the following specially designed courses. Please contact us for further details.

• Italian for Business, Marketing and Industry
• Italian for Matriculation to Italian Universities
• Italian for cooking and wine tasting
• Italian for Tourism Industry
• Italian for Art History
• Italian Literature
• Italian for Architecture
• Italian for Medicine
• Translation
• Italian Language Teaching

Program of Extracurricular Activities

The selection of the program's activities is adapted according to the students' interests and follows four general topics:

• The town
• Art, history and music
• Environment
• Current events
• Italian cooking and wine tasting

The aim of the various activities is to facilitate and encourage contacts between the participants in the course and their Italian environment, and to provide a general understanding of contemporary Italy.

Examples: a walk to discover the hidden beauty of the town, painting from the 14th century to the present day, the modern architecture, contemporary art, Etruscan town, restoration of old paintings, restoration of musical instruments, trip to medieval castle and villages, Italian opera, tenors in the 19th century, popular song, medieval music, music of the 16th, 17th and 18th century, environment, the transformation of Roman rural organization, wine producers, landscape of the plane, of the hills and of mountains, typical local wine bars, readings, film performances, events of various types, aperitifs followed by a meal and many other occasions to practice the language, meeting with members of the various political parties, as well as representatives of different professions. We also run Italian cooking and wine tasting activities. Italian cooking is provided by our school to learn easily the best Italian food. Wine tasting teaches how to choose and recognize the different kind of wine

Examples: sight-seeing walks and tours in Bologna: the University, the baroque theatre, Modena, Ferrara, Ravenna, Mantova, Ducati motor cycle factory, car factory of Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati, fashion and clothing manufacturers.

Seminars

The school offers seminars on the following topics: Italian literature, history of music, history of Italian language, painting and drawing

Italian Language Courses in Bologna, Italy - Accommodation

A special reservation service, run by the Italian language school free of charge, finds and books rooms for the duration of the courses, i.e. from the Sunday of the arrival to the Saturday of the departure.

Please note: All prices are quoted in Euros. For the equivalent in your currency, please visit www.xe.com/ucc.