Italian Language Course in Florence, Italy

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Italian Course in Florence, Italy

Florence is known all over the world as the city of art, the capitol of the Renaissance, and one of the most important centers of literary and scientific culture. Florence is the capital city of the Tuscany region and is located in the north-central part of Italy, between Rome and Milan. It is crossed by the Arno River and it is surrounded north and east by the mountain chain of the Apennines, south by the gentle Chianti hills (the famous wine production area) and west by the Valdarno plain.

Florence, for many reasons, is the ideal place to attend Italian language courses in Italy. It is the city where the Italian language was born and where it evolved. Therefore it is here where the purest form of the Italian language is spoken with its distinctive and unique dialectal inflection. Florence has an immense and rich artistic heritage and therefore it has become one of the world's artistic and cultural centers. Florence is located in the heart of the Tuscany region and in less than one hour it is possible to reach towns like Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Arezzo, San Gimignano, Cortona, Pienza, Volterra and the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Florence is a rather small university and tourist city and its historic center is free from traffic and far from the metropolitan industrial area. Therefore it is the perfect environment to attend Italian language courses in Italy. It is a quiet city with a low crime rate. Florence is not only rich in famous museums, churches, palaces and monuments, but also in typical small restaurants ("trattorie"), where it is possible to taste delicious Tuscan dishes, and in countless typical places where you can enjoy the evening, meet people and amuse yourself. Florence offers plenty of live music events and shows in any period of the year. It is also rich in gardens and parks where you can relax. It has the world's most famous fashion designers shops, as well as in typical artisan shops ("botteghe"), where it is still possible to watch painters and artists at work. The present and past merge in the typical alleys of this city. For these reasons more and more tourists and students come to stay in the city and enroll on a Italian language course in Florence, thus creating an extremely intense cultural exchange. Studying Italian at an Italian language school in Italy means having the opportunity to live in and learn Italian culture everyday and to practice the Italian language constantly. It also means having an unforgettable experience in the city where the Italian language was born and where the most correct form of the language is still spoken.

Italian Language Courses in Florence, Italy - Prices

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Our Italian Language School in Florence, Italy

Our Italian language school in Florence is a school specialized in teaching the Italian language and culture to foreign learners. It was set up in 1983 and it is one of the first Italian language schools in Italy. Our vast experience in the field of Italian language teaching guarantees our students both good results and a pleasant stay in Florence. A strong point of our Italian school is its friendly and relaxed atmosphere. This helps our students feel at home during their whole stay in Florence and gives them the chance to get to know people and places. Learning Italian not only means acquiring the mere ability to talk and understand the language but also "to live" it, that is, getting to know the country and its people, thus actively participating in the Italian life. An Italian language course our school broadens our students' horizons; it is an unforgettable experience in a city boasting an ancient artistic and cultural history.

The Italian language school in Florence is situated in the historical center of Florence, on the third floor of a bourgeois palace (with a lift) built at the end of the 19th century and recently renovated. Its location is the borough that houses banks and world-wide famous fashion shops. The Cathedral, the railway station and the main monuments and museums are all within walking distance from the school.

On the top floor of the school is a wonderful terrace, from which you can enjoy a breath-taking view of Florence and where, from April to October, the school regularly organizes dinner parties with its students.

Course participants often ask for classes to be held on the terrace. Students can also sit, read, study, meet friends and relax between or after language classes.

The staff are always available to students, to help them solve any problems that may arise during their stay in Florence.

Our students are regularly updated about cultural events taking place in Florence and elsewhere in Italy.

The school offers a free booking service for Florentine museum tickets.

Extracurricular activities

The school offers a minimum of 10 extracurricular activities per month. The activities taking place in the school premises are free of charge (history of Florence, Italian music, Italian movies, international dinners, group games, lectures on different topics of the Italian culture, like history, geography, politics, society, traditions, cooking, events, etc.). All other activities are to be paid for (visits to museums, trips to other Tuscan cities, dinners in typical restaurants, wine tasting, etc.). In order to give each student the possibility to join in, all activities take place after 4:00 PM and the weekends.

Students can use rooms not being used for class purposes from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM to study, watch movies etc.

Once a week a teacher will be available to students for one hour in the afternoon to answer queries and solve doubts concerning grammar and vocabulary. This is a free service.

Every year the school makes a limited number of scholarships available to Italian Culture Institutes based in a number of cities throughout the world and to some international universities. Applications should be sent directly to the Italian Language and Culture Institute or to the University.

Italian Language Courses in Florence, Italy

Group Italian Language Courses

During grammar lessons new structures are presented, drilled and reinforced, with reading, doing exercises and writing compositions. Teachers bring in materials of their choice, to be used in addition to exercises and drills contained in the school textbook. During conversation sessions teachers put forward current topics with audiocassettes, written materials, group activities, vocabulary building, dialogues, commentaries, thus encouraging learners to take part in discussions and make their own contributions. Language workshop lessons are a combination of applied grammar and conversation. Role plays and class games are used to simulate daily situations, in which relevant vocabulary is constantly elicited, presented and drilled.

Standard Group Italian Course (20 hrs)

Grammar and conversation (morning).

Standard Group Italian Course ( 30 hrs)

Grammar, conversation (morning) and language workshop (afternoon).

Combined Italian Language Courses

These Italian language courses have been devised for those who want to make the most of their short stay in Italy. In addition to classes, tailor-made one-to-one lessons are available, giving students the chance to deepen their grammatical knowledge and to enhance their awareness of the Italian language and culture. As learners themselves are encouraged to suggest the contents of their individual lessons, one-to-one hours can be used to tackle or review specific grammar points, to discuss and deepen cultural topics, etc.

Individual lessons

The school offers a choice of one-to-one tutorials on Italian language and on a number of topics and subjects, such as Architecture, Art history, Fashion, Business Italian, Italian Cooking and wines, Drawing, Painting, Literature, and so on. On request, the school also organizes lessons for couples. In both cases tutorials can be held any time from Monday to Saturday.

Students arrange schedule and contents of tutorials together with the school administrative and teaching staff.

Preparation for the C.I.L.S. Exam

The C.I.L.S. (Certificate of Italian as a Second Language) is the certificate of knowledge of the Italian language issued by the Università per Stranieri di Siena (University for Foreign Students of Siena). The C.I.L.S. is the most important Italian certificate and it is acknowledged by the Italian Ministry of Public Education, by all public bodies, by all international schools and by many national and international companies. Our school prepares learners for the four levels of competence required to take the C.I.L.S. - examination.

Please contact us for further details.

Additional short courses of Italian. Cooking, Business Italian, Italian Fashion, Art history and Painting enable foreign students to deepen various aspects of the Italian culture and to acquire a general knowledge of the subject they are interested in. These courses are held in the afternoons twice a week. Each lesson is made up of two hours. They can be one-to-one or group courses. For more information regarding these courses, please contact us for further details.

Our course prices include textbook, teaching materials, some extracurricular activities, a student card, a language test, a map of Florence, an information booklet on Florence, postage fees, enrollment and attendance certificates.

Italian Language Course in Florence, Italy - Accommodation

Our Italian language school in Florence, Italy offers students a free accommodation search for any kind of request and for the duration of the stay in Florence. The different types of accommodation available are: single or double rooms in student apartments with use of kitchen or in a family home with use of kitchen, breakfast or half board (breakfast and dinner).

Private apartments (one or two rooms) or hotel rooms (1, 2, 3 or 4 stars) are also available. In order to guarantee our students a pleasant stay in Florence all rooms, flats, hotels, etc. are carefully chosen and thoroughly checked by the school staff. The requests received earlier will be processed first. The school expects students to arrive on the Sunday before the beginning of lessons and to leave their lodgings on the Saturday after the end of the course. All accommodations in the historic center are 5/15 minutes walk from the school, while those outside the historic center are at a maximum of 10 minutes by bus from the school. The nearest bus stops are in Via Vecchietti or at the central railway station.

Rooms in shared apartments

Single or double rooms in apartments are shared with other Italian or foreign students or with the owner of the accommodation. The use of kitchen is the only board solution available for this kind of accommodation. Apartments are furnished, rooms are provided with sheets and blankets and kitchens are equipped with all the necessary items to cook and eat for yourself (electrical appliances, cutlery, and dishes). This is the best solution for those students who want to have more freedom, but it involves them buying their own food, cooking and doing the housework.

Rooms in family home

Single or double rooms in apartments with carefully chosen Italian host families. Accommodations are very comfortable and host families are always very friendly and helpful. With this type of accommodation students can choose among various board solutions: the use of kitchen, breakfast and half board (breakfast and dinner). The time of meals is arranged between the student and the host family. In case the student can not use this service, the family will prepare a pack lunch. Since it is the host family who does all the housework, this is the best solution for those students, who want to have the most comfortable stay. It is also the best way to improve your Italian as the language is spoken everyday with the host family. You also have the opportunity to learn Italian families' culture and habits. With the half board solution the host family will change the bed sheets once a week, clean your bedroom, cook meals, do the washing-up, wash your clothes in the washing machine and so on.

Hotel rooms

Single, double or triple rooms in hotels (1, 2, 3 or 4 stars) with bathroom en suite. Breakfast is included in the price. All hotels collaborate with our school and give our students special prices (especially during the low season). They are all located in the historic center, at a maximum of 10 minutes walk from the school and the central railway station. Hotel rooms can be booked also for one day only. It is possible to book double or triple rooms only for two or three people.

Private apartments

Apartments can have one or two rooms or also two or three bedrooms. The rent price of private apartments differs according to various factors, such as type, size, location (in or outside the historic center) and further requests. Students should preferably specify their requests, for example apartment with television, telephone, washing machine, air conditioning, bath, double bed, etc. Clearly, the more requests, the higher the rental price.

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