Know your pasta: easier said than done! Italians are so obsessed with their pasta that they actually created a chart to classify every type according to its structure, it’s lenght or its texture: it’s basically a pasta periodic table! That said, it is not surprising that many Italian language students have an hard time to recognize and name even the most…
Enrolment is now open for Italian Language Courses 2018 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Whether you are new to the language, totally fluent, or everything in between, we can help. We offer General Italian courses on all levels, weekday mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekend. ITALIAN COURSES OPEN EVENING 9 January 2018 5pm to 8:30pm – Enrolment and Assessment Tests + from 7:30pm to 8:30pm – Free Tester Class for Complete Beginners
After the runaway success of its first edition that registered complete sell outs for all screenings, ITALIA DOC comes back to London.The only official UK series of screenings of contemporary Italian documentaries starts again on 21st November 2017 at 7pm!Thanks to an important collaboration between UCL University College London and FilmItalia, all the screenings, which will take place at The…
In the hills of Alto Molise, in Agnone,Mercedes rises at 3.30 to prepare loaves for the wood fired oven, using logs from her woods, and grain from her fields. The pane casereccio of her childhood was nothing like modern bread, even from the best local bakers. Using methods traditional in her family, alternating crops, using animal ‘sterco’ (manure, no chemicals)…
….going back to the old days when granny made pasta for the whole family On Sunday 5th of November 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 for everyone in a…
A party with the students for the students of Italian!
Among our students of Italian there are many who are very talented in different fields… music, photography, writing, fashion and so on..
So, why don’t you come to support them? Let’s celebrate with your classmates and your teachers.
Festival Italiano di Letteratura a Londra Two days of events, over 30 speakers, authors and thinkers from different backgrounds, established writers and younger radical ones. Italian, British, and international voices will discuss literature and topics such as migration, politics, Italy, the present and future of London, and how Brexit is already affecting novels and poems. That is the formula of the Festival…
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.…