Language Courses Rome

ITALIAN LANGUAGE
Intensive (15-20-30 hrs/week) Classes are held from Monday to Friday.
New courses start every 4 weeks throughout the year.
Minimum attendance is 2 weeks.

• 15 hrs/week: afternoons, 3 hours a day, from 2 to 52 weeks.
• 20 hrs/week: mornings*, 4 hours a day, from 2 to 40 weeks.

(*at certain times of the year, for 1 week out of 4, lessons may be held from 2pm to 6pm)

• 30 hrs/week: mornings and afternoons, 6 hours a day, from 2 to 28 weeks.

Non-Intensive (6 hrs/week)

Classes are held twice a week, mornings or afternoons, and last 3 hours.
Each course lasts 12 weeks.
These courses are run all year except July, August and September.
Minimum attendance is 12 weeks.

Individual Courses

Particularly suitable for business and professional people and all those who require tuition tailor-made to their individual needs.
Small groups of 2-4 students can also be catered for.
Intensive (15-30 hrs/week)

Attendance is daily from Monday to Friday and varies from 3 to 6 hours a day.
Minimum attendance is one week.

Non-Intensive (3+ hrs/week)

Attendance is a minimum of 3 hours a week for a minimum of 30 hours in all.

Combined Courses

 Students attend a group course in the mornings (4 hours/day) and individual tuition in the afternoons (2 hours/day).
These courses are particularly suitable for those who need Italian both for general and specific purposes (dealing with specific topics in specific settings and /or other particular aspects of the language).

ARTS AND CULTURE:
ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
The aim of the course is to give the participants a brief introduction to the most common methodologies used in archaeology within a general framework of Roman history. As a result the participants will find themselves in contact with the customs and traditions of Ancient Rome. The course is divided in eight lessons, each lasting three hours.

ITALIAN ART
Rome is an unparalleled repository of monuments from all periods. Great architectural structures, unforgettable avenues, breathless sculptures, naturalistic wonders of the Roman period, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque, all these have left their mark on the Rome we see today. Every lesson lasts 3 hours. Slides and information hand-outs are provided together with booklets on the subjects dealt with.

ITALIAN COOKING & WINE
Simple or elaborate, Italian cooking offers a variety of dishes to satisfy every palate, from the gourmet to the health-conscious, from those who eat standing up to those who spend hours at table. The vast variety of typical Italian products - the countless kinds and shapes of pasta, the various types of pizza together with meat, fish, vegetables, olive oil and and the world renowned Italian wine - all contribute in making an Italian meal a special occasion. In each lesson, lasting three hours, the participants will acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge required to prepare some of the most representative regional dishes and to select the wines to accompany them

OTHER:

50+
This programme is held twice a year, lasts 2 weeks and caters exclusively for people over 50.
It's a mixture of language, art, culture and the pleasure of spending time together to share and improve one's knowledge of those aspects of Rome that make this city so unforgettable.
Apart from 40 hours of language lessons in the morning in classes of mixed ages at the appropriate level, the programme includes activities.
All these activities take place in Italian and are guided and/or accompanied by teachers of Italian well versed in Archaeology and History of Art.

Italian Out There
Specially suitable for people who have very little time to devote to learning Italian. Each lesson, three hours long, has a linguistic and/or communicative theme and is made up of 3 parts.

The first part, which takes place in class, is devoted to the vocabulary, the grammar, the phonology and the communicative rules applicable to a specific situation.

In the second part of the lesson the students put into practice what they have learnt. In real life contexts, they carry out pre-determined tasks interacting with Italian people.

The third part of the lesson is devoted to tackling the difficulties encountered.

Each lesson is in itself a complete learning experience and as a consequence it is possible to offer the Italian Out There course even for short periods, starting from a minimum of 3 days.

Business Italian
These classes deal specifically with business situations and the language and communication skills required for doing business in Italian.
They are held three times a week and last 2 hours.
The programme lasts 4 weeks.

The course is designed for business executives, professional people and students who already have a working knowledge of the language and who must use business Italian in real-life situations. The lessons will concentrate on all aspects of business Italian, both written and spoken. Ample space will be given to business terminology and to a review of relevant grammatical structures.

 Language School Year Programme
This programme which lasts 32 weeks (a 35-week stay) has been designed to meet the ever increasing demand of a solid language course combined with other disciplines such as History of Art, Architecture and Design, in which Italy is famous throughout the world. The course is open to beginners and elementary students from all over the world, aged between 16 and 28.

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