From 20 September to 1 October, Raindance Film Festival & Italian Cultural Institute at the Vue West End (Leicester Square) present a great selection of Italian contemporary films. Here you have the full list and links. Children of the Night by Andrea de Sica Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese There is a light by Fabio Mollo Viola, Franca by Marta Savia Read more…
Una domanda frequente degli studenti d’italiano è quando usare il verbo “essere” e quando usare il verbo “stare” . I due verbi sono verbi fondamentali della lingua italiana e sono molto utili per chi comincia a studiare italiano. Questi verbi sono molto usati nella conversazione, per esempio nella domanda “Come stai?” la risposta, naturalmente è “Sto bene” o ” Sto male“.…
Italian Inspirations” è una serie di otto incontri in cui un autore britannico parla di uno scrittore italiano, classico o contemporaneo, che ammira in modo particolare. Curato e moderato da Boyd Tonkin, ogni evento sarà una conversazione alla scoperta dei modi in cui un autore legge e si confronta con i suoi illustri precursori, o con i suoi autorevoli contemporanei.…
On the 16 September 2017 from 10 to 12 teachers and staff from Italian Language Services at the Italian Cultural Institute offer enrolment and assessment tests. If you have studied or have learned Italian before, you can have a free assessment test in order to assess your level. Possibility of meeting with some of the teachers to be introduced to the syllabus and the method…
In Italian every noun has a gender and number. A noun is used for describing a person, an animal, a place or an object. The endings change in the plural with few exceptions. Italian nouns and adjectives can be masculine and feminine, singular and plural. They change the ending vowel according to their gender (feminine or masculine) and number (singular or plural).…
Scopriamo i tesori della Basilica di San Pietro e della Città del Vaticano. Un interessantissimo documentario che ci fa scoprire i tesori di Roma come la Cupola di San Pietro, la sublime Pietà di Michelangelo, gli affreschi della Cappella Sistina e una visita notturna agli immensi giardini. Alberto Angela ci porta sulle tracce dell’anziano Michelangelo e del giovane Raffaello, scoprendo…
….going back to the old days when granny made pasta for the whole family On Sunday 2nd of July we will start at 11.00am and we will speak Italian .. so also a short introduction on cooking terminology will be given by the Italian teacher who will help with the vocabulary and assist during the preparation. These cooking lessons are…
Satyricon by Federico Fellini in Italian with English subtitles Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller 1969 | 2h 8 min | Drama The film is loosely based on Petronius’s work Satyricon, written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. The film is divided into…
La Chiacchiera Spritz: in conversation with the author Following the last successful conversation with Elisa, we would like to invite you for a new Italian aperitivo event with the Italian writer living in London, Gaetano Barreca, author of the novel “Dopo il funerale” . Let’s practise Italian with this live interview: meet Gaetano, novelist and teacher of Italian, presenting this new historical book set in Puglia in…
Italiano camminando is a week-long course designed by Il Sasso, school of Italian in Montepulciano for those who prefer a walk in the open air to a classroom lesson. Walking together in the Tuscan countryside (Valdichiana and the Val d’Orcia) while speaking in Italian will allow you to practice the language and understand the culture better, using the language and…