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Complementary short courses of Italian Cooking and wines, 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. On request on the part of the students it is possible to deepen or widen the programs.

Italian Cooking and wines
Students attend theoretical classes at school of Italian cooking terminology and practical lessons at the teacher's home where they learn how to prepare and cook typical Italian dishes. Lesson prices include the cost for the ingredients and the tasting. It is possible to prepare particular dishes on request on the part of the students.

Business Italian
The course aims to provide students with the bases to understand business terminology and to know the various stages of Italian commercial life in both business and tourist sector. Students learn how to understand and write commercial letters, communicate by phone, introduce themselves, apply for a job, solve various problems, learn business documents, the rules as well as public and private institutions.

Italian Fashion
During the course students will be provided with information concerning the origin of the "Made in Italy", the great Italian fashion designers, their distinctive characteristics and their life history. Each lesson will approach various topics, such as terminology, textiles, accessories, fashion-shows and latest trends. The aim of the course is to make students learn the fascinating world in detail with an expert teacher.

Art history
The course gives students an overview of art history in Florence. Florence, an "open-air museum", is the city of the Renaissance. During each lesson the teacher will introduce a single epoch, giving information on a monument or a building of great artistic and architectonic value. Students will also be able to visit the most famous museums of Florence together with the teacher and therefore understand the contents of the greatest works of art on exhibit.

Arts and crafts workshops
Italian language courses combined with arts and crafts workshops are offered in the following subjects

• furniture restoration
• painting restoration
• goldsmith's and jeweller's art
• leather goods manufacture.

They are organised together with the Association of Artisans of Florence and are available to beginners as well as to those students who are already familiar with artisan skills.

In the arts and crafts workshops students learn these ancient skills in a typical Florentine artisan shop (bottega). Courses comprise of Italian lessons focused on technical terminology as well as craftsmanship training. After a first theoretic approach, students start using tools and work objects manually with the precious advices of the artisan. Courses can have a duration of 1, 3 or 9 months.

Each package of a complete course includes:

• conversation group lessons in the morning
• one-to-one lessons on the subject's history (16 hour lessons)
• one-to-one lessons on the subject's technical terminology (24 hour lessons)
• theory and training in the workshop
• insurance

Schedule and dates of workshop lessons are arranged between learners and staff. A maximum of 3 students can participate in each workshop lesson. At the end of the course students receive their certificate of attendance.

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