Academic Year in Italy

It is aimed at students with beginner to intermediate Italian, who aim to achieve fluency over a number of months. This Italian language course ensures rapid acquisition and long-term retention of all aspects of language knowledge and is an invaluable way of focusing on your language skills development, with like-minded people away from the pressures and demands of daily life at home. It aims to provide a solid grounding in core skills across a wide range of ability levels. Whatever your current ability, key teaching techniques will ensure you gradually acquire and develop the necessary strategies to understand and communicate in Italian.

• Language classes: 480 lessons of Italian study, culmination in a final 80 lessons of preparation for two Italian Diplomas at intermediate and advanced levels
• Cultural workshops: Italian Civilization & History, Art History, Business Italian, History of Design & Architecture and an introduction to Italian Gastronomy
• Social programme: In addition to the above all Academic Year students are welcome to participate in the various social activities offered by the college each month to all language students, some cultural, whilst others are purely of a social nature
  

Some people study Italian for self-enrichment or, they’re travelling to “il bel paese” and want to know how to tell the time or talk on the phone in Italian or to satisfy short term language requirements in high school, college, university or career goals. Others however, though, such as art history students, aspiring teachers, translators or others with long term career goals, study the language as part of a formal training programme. For this latter group of students, formally proving competency in the language is a requirement and this is where the AIL Exams are of great value.

DELI Diploma Elementare di Lingua Italiana “Firenze” AIL.
A1/A2 level according to the European Language Portfolio

DILI Diploma Intermediodi Lingua Italiana “Firenze” AIL.
B1 level according to the European Language Portfolio

DALI Diploma Avanzado di Lingua Italiana “Firenze” AIL.
C1 level according to the European Language Portfolio

DALC Diploma Commericale di Lingua Italiana “Firenze” AIL.
The DALC tests business Italian.
C2 level according to the European Language Portfolio

Level: DELI: low (2) DILI: average (3)
DALI: high(4) DALC: very high(5).
Exams: are held on set dates throughout the year

All students are encouraged to make the most of their time in each Italian location by participating in the guided excursions and activities offered by the college. Visits are offered accompanied by a college guide, students are of course welcome to explore each location on their own, and many to do so. Additionally we recommend you try the less well-known activities that the Italians themselves enjoy, wandering through the local markets; or simply exploring the hidden corners of the cities that the average tourist never gets to see.

Students have to allow different commuting times depending on which location they choose to study in.

Arrive: Sunday PM / Depart: Saturday AM

Option 1
Italian hosts, single room (or shared room on request), half-board basis (breakfast and evening meal).

Option 2
Shared apartment, single room  This can be with Italian hosts, single room (or shared room on request) in Rome and Milan on a self-catering basis. In Florence students can also share with other language students (this can also be arranged in Rome and Milan, depending on availability).