44 Italian General Courses for adults in Florence

This course focuses on grammar and conversation.

This course focuses on grammar and conversation.

This course focuses on grammar.

The ABC Italian language school’s standard group course will allow you to reap the benefits of taking 20 professionally prepared lessons every week while studying in reduced groups of just 9 other students apart from yourself. Each lesson lasts for 45 minutes, with the grammar and conversation classes clearly divided and given their own timetables.

Grammar will be taught in the two classes between 9:00 and 10:30, while conversation classes take place between 11:00 and 12:30.

This course includes 4 Italian language lessons, from Monday to Friday. One lesson is 45 minutes. Minimum 3 students.

10 Italian lessons plus 10 lessons about Italian fashion.

10 hours of Italian lessons plus 10 hours of Art History per week. Transport and museum tickets are included in the price!

If the course does not have the minimum number of participants, the course will be substituted with the Standard Course plus 3 individual lessons per week for the same price.

This is the school’s most popular and in-demand course, with 20 hours of classes per week in which the student is placed in a group that corresponds to their current level of knowledge. The course gives equal weight to traditional forms of learning as to more informal means of learning, with 2 hours for both grammar learning and for conversation.

Part of the reason for the popularity of the Standard course is that students can work hard during the early hours of the day, and then have their evenings free to explore Florence and take care of any personal errands.

This course focuses on grammar and conversation.

This course includes 10 lessons a week, 2 lessons a day. One lesson is 45 minutes. Minimum 3 students.

Students choose between grammar lessons or conversation lessons.

Florence is one of Italy’s most iconic cities, and certainly a favourite destination for visitors from all over the world. It’s in this beautiful city that you will study Italian for 15 hours per week, all while living in your teacher’s home and benefitting from a full board meal plan and access to conversation in Italian practically whenever you want it.

This is a city where most attractions and places of interest are within walking distance of each other, so you will find it easy to move independently once you start exploring Florence for yourself outside of class hours. Your host family will give you the best advice on how to move around while not getting too caught up in the tourist areas - one of the many ways that you will benefit from their local expertise.

All teachers working with the home tuition programme are fully qualified, so you can expect carefully designed and delivered lessons on your course. To communicate any issues, HLI asks guests to get in touch with their Local Organisers working in Florence.

The Intensive Italian course from Scuola Leonardo da Vinci is the main offering among their programme options and involves taking 4 classes every day (20 per week). Most of the lessons’ focus is directed towards verbal communication, meaning you will spend a significant amount of time speaking in class and resolving any issues you have with pronunciation or listening skills. Even so, the elements of Italian language study that are related to vocabulary and grammar are still given their due importance.

This academy believes that play is just as important as work, and for that reason, they organise extracurricular activities for students to enjoy in the afternoons and evenings. These might involve taking day trips to museums, wine cellars, cultural discussion groups, and more. Through these activities, the school wants to show you that learning a language is much more than just learning in the classroom, and instead is all about having fun using your new or expanding knowledge of the language.

Intensive Course and 2 extra group lessons per day focusing on improving speaking skills.

This course allows the students to participate in the cultural activities organized by the school so that they can learn the language also by practicing with other students and teachers. Alongside the course, the student is free to benefit from the any of the afternoon activities organized by the school. These comprise of visits to museums and places of interest, film showings, walks through the city, rafting on the Arno and much more.

Linguaviva’s Italian Standard course at their Florence location allows students to develop all of the main language skills simultaneously: writing, reading, listening and speaking. This is consistent with the general approach of the course, as it is intended to be useful for a wide range of people and backgrounds. This option represents 20 hours of lessons every week.

This school prefers to avoid translation in the classroom, meaning that all communication and explanation will be given in Italian, in a way that is tailored to your current level. You will use a course book (charged separately) throughout this programme, with your teacher providing additional materials when necessary, as well as directing interactive and dynamic activities with your peers.

Included in your tuition fees, you will receive: the accommodation placement service, the placement test to determine your initial group, academic counselling specifically for Italian universities, certificates, and Linguaviva’s exam fee.

This course is reserved for Swedish students with CSN study grants only.

Price includes 1 afternoon activity per week:

• 1st week: Guided orientation tour of Florence.
• 2nd week: Guided walk to Piazzale Michelangelo and the Church of Santa Maria a Montici.
• 3rd week: Conversation session with a group of Florentines about the quality of life in the city.
• 4th week: Guided visits to some artisans’ workshops.
  1 lesson is 4 hours. There is a 20 minute break from 11:00 to 11:20.

The intensive course offers comprehensive and in-depth language training. The four hours of daily lessons are divided into two hours of grammar, and two hours of conversation and culture-themed classes.

Collaborative learning is encouraged during your lessons, which usually take the form of simulations, role-playing and group work generally. With this method, the interests and personalities of every student in the classroom are able to come out and contribute to everyone’s experience.

If the minimum of 3 participants is not reached, the student may take the Intensive course plus 3 hours of individual lessons per week.

The course includes:
Student Point for study and computer access
Wi-Fi Internet access throughout LdM premises
Housing service
LdM Italian language library with a variety of Italian books, periodicals and DVDs
Recreational activities (meetings with Italian students, art tours, movies, seminars)
Tutoring: one-to-one weekly tutorial session free of charge
Conversation Exchange with Italians. In Florence, LdM pairs its students with Italian students from various state universities who wish to improve their foreign language skills.
LdM Certificate of Attendance that confirms the student's participation in the relevant course of Italian Language and Culture
The course is composed of 12 group lessons + 5 one-to-one lessons weekly.
Classes are held from Monday through Thursday.