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General Italian language and culture courses

The class groups are formed based upon the results of the entrance test and upon the total number of students. In all the courses - taking into consideration the characteristics of each level - we aim for the same objective: to make the student capable of understanding, speaking, reading and writing the living language fluently; we obtain really special results also with the beginners.
In order to reach these objectives we guarantee each student a special individual attention (tutorial) throughout the whole week and especially on Saturday morning.

EXAMPLE OF WEEKLY TIMETABLE FOR INTERMEDIATE (1° e 2°): 14 hours language and conversation, 11 hours culture. Can always be adapted to suit specific requirement

.	MORNING	AFTERNOON	EVENING
MON.:	language & conversation (3 hours)	arts & handicrafts (3 hours), optional	cultural evening
TUES.:	language & conversation (3 hours)	conversation and/or culture (4 hours)	.
WED.:	language or culture (3 hours)	afternoon excursion (optional)	.
THUR.:	language & conversation (3 hours)	conversation and/or culture (4 hours)	.
FRI.:	language & conversation (3 hours)	arts & handicrafts (3 hours), optional	cultural evening
SAT.:	special tutorial (2 hours)	.	.
SUN.:	full day excursion (optional)

* Lesson hours:
morning: 8.50 - 10.50 (break) and 11.20 - 12.20;
Saturday tuition: 9.00 - 11.00;
afternoon conversation and culture: 14.30 - 16.30/18.30;
arts & handicrafts: 14.30 - 17.30;
Italian cookery course: ore 18.30 - 21.30.

We have studied a very varied and balanced weekly dose between language lessons, conversation and culture according to the needs of each level. All the courses have 25 hours of lessons weekly. The courses for beginners and pre-intermediates have 17 hours of language and conversation, plus 4 hours of supplementary conversation and 4 hours of culture; the courses for intermediates have 17 hours of language and conversation and 8 of culture; the courses for advanced have 14 hours of language and conversation and 11 of culture. The superior course for Italian teachers abroad has its own specific programme, very rich in cultural subjects: 11 hours of language and conversation and 14 hours of culture.
All the cultural subjects are included in the enrolment fees for the courses and they are divided in curriculum and optional subjects. The curriculum subjects (in the morning) are those which are designed to give basic cultural knowledge to all the class group, and they vary, naturally, from class to class; The optional subjects (in the afternoon) are designed to carefully look into individual interests and they can be attended by all who are interested. In order to include them in the programme there must be at least 10 interested students.

Curriculum subjects:	Optional subjects
Anthological literature of 20th century Italy and linguistic and stylistic observations; Topics of recent Italian events; Italian institutions; The Italian State system; The Italian educational system; Evolution of Italian society; Evolution of modern day Italy.	History of Italy; History of the Duchy of Urbino; History of Italian literature (general course); Literature and commentary of Italian classics; Twentieth-century Italian literature; Lectura Dantis (supplementary course);	Italian philology; History of Italian political parties; History of the Italian language; Italian philosophy of the 20th century; History of Art (general course); History of the Renaissance; The Italian economy of today; Italian economic geography; Italian musical culture.

Other courses:
Superior courses for Italian teachers abroad (July, August, September, January) Courses in Italian for business Personalized courses for groups	Courses in any part of the world One-to-one tailor made courses Art courses (painting and pottery) Traditional Italian cookery courses

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General Italian language and culture courses