|
|
ASL | Arabic | Chinese | ESL | French | German | Italian | Hebrew | Japanese | Korean | Spanish | Turkish | All Languages |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Italian Language Schools in Italy:
|
|
Italian Language Schools in Italy: Florence (Firenze)
Buy the FSI Fast Italian Course from the Digital Download Store and receive it today! This is the same content from the hardcopy editions, but with the text in PDF format and the audio in MP3 format.
We are now offering featured listings for language schools at a rate of $50 for 3 months or $145 for a year. The featured listings will be shown at the top of the school page for the appropriate geographic area, with additional space and written and graphic image content of your choosing, edited to fit in the space allotted. To get your listing, contact Ken Tomkins at multilingualbooks.@yahoo.com. If you would like to submit a regular listing to include in these pages, just use our Foreign Language Schools Entry Form to send the information on your school program. Areas in Italy: Rome | Abruzzo | Apulia | Calabria | Campania | Emilia Romagna | Florence | Friuli Venezia Giulia | Liguria | Lombardy | Marche | Piedmont | Sardinia | Sicily | Tuscany | Umbria | Veneto (Venice) |
Florence (Firenze)
(go here for other schools in Tuscany)
ABC School
In the heart of Florence, the ABC Center offers students the opportunity to participate in language, art and culture courses. For many years we have carried out research in the field of linguistics and didactics according to the Direct Teaching Method as well as various existing trends in didactics. The aim of the teaching method is oral and written communication, and to achieve this there is a maximum of ten students per class. This makes accurate and precise teaching possible where the students learn quickly and thoroughly. Two teachers lecture standard and intensive courses offering the students the opportunity of hearing different accents. The lessons and seminars take place exclusively in Italian. In order to place the students accurately in a class, there is an oral and a written test first.
Location: Florence
Email: info@abcschool.comAccademia Europea di Firenze
Accademia Europea di Firenze is an Italian language, culture, art and music school situated right in the heart of historic Florence, in Via Roma 4, between the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza della Repubblica. Our largest concern is to offer high quality courses in every subject we teach, providing instructors fully qualified and highly trained. AEF offers a rich program of optional language and cultural activities such as concerts, seminars, movies, language games and visits to museums and farms as well as extra-curricular and recreational activities; parties, sports, dinners, food and wine tasting, etc. These activities are offered every day to ensure the enjoyment and cultural fulfillment of the students, and also to encourage them to practice the language in all of its aspects. These activities are fundamental in contributing to the creation of a relaxed and familiar atmosphere that involves students, teachers and staff facilitating the constant progress of each individual student.
Location: Florence
Email: segreteria@accademiaeuropeafirenze.itAccademia del Giglio
Accademia del Giglio is a private school which is specifically aimed at helping international students to gain proficiency in Italian language and understand many aspects of Italian culture. Every effort is made to satisfy student needs and to provide an enjoyable Italian language course in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Our courses are aimed to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and are carefully structured to develop your fluency and accuracy. We use a wide variety of real-life material such as, television and radio programmes, newspapers and magazine extracts, and we organize regular excursions so that our students learn italian as it is currently used by native speakers.
Location: Florence
Email: info@adg.itBritish Institute of Florence
The British Institute of Florence was founded in 1917 with the aim of developing cultural understanding between the UK and Italy through the teaching of their respective languages and cultures. Our aim is to provide students with confidence in their language ability, to enable them to develop fluency in spoken Italian, and to develop their capacity to understand the language as it is written and spoken today. To achieve these objectives our courses are designed to develop overall language ability, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, confidence and understanding, an understanding and knowledge of day to day Italian.
Location: Florence
Email: info@britishinstitute.itCentro Fiorenza
Founded in 1982, Centro Fiorenza has its premises right in the centre of the historic city, in a prestigious seventeenth century palace. The medium size of the school, 120-130 students during the peak months with each class limited to 12 students, permits our teaching staff a personalized rapport with each student and offers the opportunity, even for beginners, to acquire in a short time a clear grasp of the language necessary to face all situations of daily-life. One of the school's main characteristics, much appreciated by our students, is a friendly atmosphere established from the first day with a "welcome party" for students, teachers and management staff. Students at Centro Fiorenza do not feel like "foreign tourists", but part of a lively international family.
Location: Florence
Email: fiorenza@centrofiorenza.comCentro Lingua Italiana Calvino
CLIC Centro Lingua Italiana Calvino since 1987 has been offering Italian courses for international students in Florence, throughout the year. Residential summer courses are also available in Calabria, in the south of Italy. A language course with CLIC means language and culture combined. Students have the option of attending class either 2, 4 or 6 hours per day, Mondays through Fridays, in small groups and at 8 different language levels. For a good part of your active day, Italian will become your main language, and this - thanks to our method - happens in an absolutely "painless" manner. The Intensive course consists of extra practice in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing with emphasis on practical communication activities. If you would like to feel as part of a big family, make friends in Italy, and find professionals in language teaching, we are the school for you.
Location: Florence
Email: info@clicschool.itCentro Machiavelli
The Centro Machiavelli was founded as a cooperative of teachers in 1978 in order to provide an adequate response to a growing world-wide interest in Italian language and culture. Ever alert to the country's linguistic and cultural developments, the Centro Machiavelli constitutes a constant reference point for students seeking to acquire not only linguistic competence, but also the skills necessary for a full understanding of the complex and ever-changing Italian society. Apart from grammar and syntax, we believe that there are four skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking - which need to be studied and developed right from the first level, to achieve understanding and expression in authentic communicative situations. The school is in Piazza Santo Spirito itself, and with its bars and out-door cafes, its daily market, workshops and restaurants, it is a favourite haunt of Florentines and thus provides our students with an excellent opportunity to meet them.
Location: Florence
Email: info@centromachiavelli.itEurocentres Firenze
Our mission is to set you on the path of successful learning. We create a learning environment which leads you to your personal study objective and offers you a quality learning experience. Our methods are tried and tested and new teaching methodologies and the latest technical facilities are used by Eurocentres wherever possible. Moreover, we employ only teachers with the highest standard of education who teach exclusively in their mother tongue. We teach the language you need to communicate in real life. You do exercises to improve your fluency and your accuracy. And then we provide activities which require real communication. Our programmes are structured in such a way that you will quickly absorb the culture and get to know the people of your host country. The international nature of our schools, with students from many countries of the world, offers opportunities for enriching intercultural encounters.
Location: Florence
Email: info@ecfi.itEUROPASS
Europass, European Study Center, is specialized in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. Europass offers courses of Italian language and culture, Business Italian, Juridical Speech and Medical Language. Classes consist of 3-12 students of different nationalities. The small size of the classes guarantees individual attention, allowing to maintain a high teaching standard. Our teaching method is based on modern and innovative principles, that immediately enable the students to communicate easily and confidently in everyday situations. The courses offer challenging activities focusing on real situations. At the same time, the due emphasis is placed on the study of grammar, as well as on the systematic learning and strengthening of the various subjects. Moreover, programs include information on the Italian life and culture. Upon request, the center provides assistance for accommodation with a family, in student apartments or in hotels.
Location: Florence
Email: europass@europass.itIl Globo
It is important to integrate as far possible a language and its structure with the everyday social and cultural life of a country. A small school, with a familiar air, is the best place in which to achieve this. We offer an environment which avoids anonymity and allows a personal rapport with teachers and members of staff, with a program tailor-made to the individual's requirements. Our Italian language courses are designed to maximise the students' participation and thus limited to 7 students per class. Besides these, our choice of supplementary courses, seminars and numerous activities organized by the school will allow you an enjoyable and relaxing entry into the Florentine atmosphere. Il Globo, as a true multicultural centre offering in addition music and art courses for both Italians and foreigners, actively collaborates with the city's public administration in organizing artistic events and shows.
Location: Florence
Email: info@ilglobo.itIstituto Italiano
The Istituto Italiano is the ideal reference point for those who want to start or continue studying the Italian language and culture. The Institute's teaching method is based on the directives of the Modern Languages Project of the Council of Europe. Every class has two teachers, each of whom has a specific teaching role. This allows the students to hear and become accustomed to different voice inflections. The teachers use various methods that enable the students to learn all the nuances of the language without the stilted phrases that are so far from the modern, spoken language. The Institute's teaching methods call for the use of text books supplemented by other materials: leaflets, carefully selected audio-visual aids and a wide range of "original" texts. This material, the fruit of years of experience acquired by the teachers and the educational director, is continuously enriched and updated.
Location: Florence
Email: info@istitutoitaliano.itIstituto Il David
The Istituto Il David is a school specialised in teaching the Italian language and culture to foreign learners. Our experience in the field of language teaching guarantees our students both good results and a pleasant stay in Florence. Our teaching method enables students to learn Italian well and quickly. Soon our students will acquire the four basic skills: understanding, speaking, reading and writing. Our method places emphasis on grammar, listening comprehension and oral expression. Classes are held in Italian, thus providing students with full immersion in the target language throughout their courses. Alongside the schoolbook, teachers bring in and use extra, up-to-date materials, such as excerpts from various texts, newspaper or magazine clippings, audiocassettes, videocassettes, etc.
Location: Florence
Email: info@istitutoildavid.itIstituto Parola
Istituto Parola encourages an open and friendly environment that facilitates learning but equally important, lasting friendships and memorable experiences during the students stay in Florence. Our Italian language teachers are all native speakers of Italian and specialized in teaching Italian. Our teaching methods follow the guidelines set down by the Councit of Europe.Basically we use two methods: the direct method that immerses the student in the Itatian tanguage immediatety and the functional-notional method in which grammar instruction is given through the most common everyday situations. Through the language courses, extra-curricular activities and weekend excursions students get a complete understanding of Florence and its surrounds.
Location: Florence
Email: info@parola.itKoinè
Koinè is a special kind of school. In fact, it was set up in 1980 as an association of teachers, all with personal and professional experience in the area of teaching Italian as a foreign language. Since these teachers were dissatisfied with their experiences, they decided to create a new type of organization which would differ from other private schools in its style of working and teaching methods. We offer Italian courses of different lengths and levels, using assorted teaching methods to satisfy a variety of students' needs. Language and culture are taught in some of Italy's most scenic, historic locations. At the end of the course, each student will receive on request a certificate of attendance stating the length of the course and the level of his/her ability in the language. Our students come from all around the world. 45 per cent are from Europe, 30 per cent from Asia, and 25 per cent from North America.
Location: Florence and other Tuscan cities
Email: info@koinecenter.comLinguaviva
Our extensive range of Italian programmes has been designed to ensure that the specific needs of each individual are met: general Italian and Italian for business, internship experience, academic studies in Italy, optional art courses, vocational programmes in fine arts, design, culinary arts and a residential summer programme for juniors by the sea. Our modern communicative approach is conceived to stimulate your interest in learning our language. The course contents cover all aspects of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing. We usually concentrate on grammar in the first part of the classes with freer practice and skills work in the later parts. All our teachers have professional teaching qualifications and are selected for their enthusiasm as well as their ability. Friendly and accessible, they appreciate the needs of students and take an active role in planning courses.
Location: Florence
Email: info@linguaviva.itLorenzo de Medici
The Lorenzo de Medici school, which opened its doors in 1973, was one of the very first in Florence to specialize in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. In line with the most up-to-date theories on Italian language teaching, our method aims at a harmonious development of all four linguistic skills: listening and speaking, reading and writing. The small number of students per class and the varied teaching techniques enable each student to be an active participant in the learning process. The language is always presented in context with the student immediately putting into practice what has been studied. The school provides, free of charge, a pack of course materials which is frequently updated.
Location: Florence
Email: info@lorenzodemedici.itPixel
Pixel is an Education and Training Agency based in Florence (Italy), with vast experience in the organisation of professional language courses aimed at individuals who intend to acquire Italian language communication skills. Pixel specialises in organising individual Italian language courses for foreigners. The courses are highly personalised and flexible, responding to the specific needs of the student or of small groups of students. The learning methodology proposed by Pixel adapts itself to the personal characteristics and requirements of the student. The focus, independent of the level, is on the development of both written and oral communication and comprehension skills. Grammar is developed in a functional way and relates to the linguistic contents which the students intends to develop in order to equip them with the tools for correct expression and understanding at whatever level of linguistic knowledge.
Location: Florence
Email: italiano@pixel-online.netScuola Leonardo da Vinci
We offer a wide range of different Italian language programs from our popular Italian standard language course to Italian individual tuition and our Italian Diploma course (AIL Exams and CILS exams). People from all over the world come here to learn the Italian language and to study the Italian culture and way of living. Our courses start every 2 weeks at all levels (Italian course dates) and you can stay as long as you want. We provide a a state-of-the-art, communication-oriented, flexible and highly effective instruction method with a friendly and personal atmosphere, and enthusiastic, dynamic and highly qualified teacher. The classes are made up of small and diverse international groups (max. 12 participants per class), and we offer a broad extra-curricular cultural and leisure programme. Recognized by US Colleges and Universities for Credits Transfer, and by CSN Lund Sweden.
Location: Florence
Email: scuolaleonardo@scuolaleonardo.comScuola Palazzo Malvisi
Our schools offer highly intensive Italian language programs in a peaceful and relaxing environment, with the possibility to combine a Italian language course together with well trained, highly qualified Italian language teachers, recruited not only for their teaching ability and warm personalities, but also for their wide range of interests and skills. We offer a variety of Italian language courses: small group, individual tuition, Italian culture courses, courses for Italian language teachers, programs for business and tourism, and a variety of special Italian language courses. In all our Centers you can choose to live with a carefully-selected local family, to stay in single or double rooms in independent lodgings, or in a studio. Hotel accommodation can also be arranged.
Location: Florence
Email: firenze@scuolapalazzomalvisi.comScuola Toscana
In the past 15 years, more than 8000 foreign students have discovered the Italian language and the Italian culture at the Scuola Toscana, situated in Florence, the city of the Renaissance, in the heart of Tuscany. The courses have a maximum of 8 students per class, with starting dates available every two weeks, 12 months a year, and courses from one week up to three years. The accommodation programme has a wide choice of apartments and selected families in Florence to choose from (no commission). Scuola Toscana is a member of AIL and ASILS, and also co-operates with the Adult Education Department of the Florence City Council.
Location: Florence
Email: info@scuola-toscana.comSocieta Dante Alighieri
The Societa Dante Alighieri, founded in 1889, is the oldest Italian association for teaching the Italian language to foreigners, and has done this ever since its founding. The teaching method used is based on the direct relationship between teacher and student. The methodological approach thus takes into account the student's origins and his basic cultural preparation. Traditional teaching material is backed up by the reading of original texts aimed at the class's requirements and, whenever possible, at the needs of the individual student. Initially, the courses, which are based on the inductive method and are conducted totally in Italian, are aimed at providing the student with the necessary means for overcoming the first difficult logistics in a foreign country.
Location: Florence
Email: info@dantealighieri.itSpirito Italiano
Spirito Italiano is a small Italian language school in Florence that offers more personalized Italian language courses to those students that come to learn with an interest in and love for the Italian language and culture. Our main objective is to adapt our Italian language program to the wish and capacity of students, individually and in group. We use a communicative teaching method that suits each student and lets them learn the Italian grammar in a more natural way. Learning Italian is not easy, but it can be enjoyable, if it is learned with people that understand your difficulties, care about it. Traveling in Italy can become a real cultural experience and as in any educational experience, not only do you have the opportunity to study Italian, but also to learn the Italian culture through many art courses, cooking courses and Italian cultural courses.
Location: Florence
Email: info@spiritoitaliano.com
|
