Buon anno! The start of the new year brings with it the best sales, here in Rome sales (saldi) start on the 6th of January. As a beginner in the Italian language, it can be hard to make conversations with locals. However, since I am a hopeless shopping addicted, I tried to speak to Italian shopkeepers as soon as I…
Music put students into a positive, motivated frame of mind and help the mind to memorize. Songs can be a great tool to study, revise and practise grammar. This song by Nina Zilli is full of pronouns, listen the song and fill the gaps. Nina Zilli viene da un paesino della Val Trebbia che ha lasciato presto per l’Irlanda, gli…
On the 14 January 2017 from 10 to 12 at the Italian Cultural Institute we have enrolment and assessment tests. Possibility of meeting with some of the teachers to be introduced to the syllabus and the method of teaching and assessing your level. Possibility to enrol in our classes with £10 discount Knowing more about the Institute and its Cultural events…
We asked Donato to tell us why the programme in Mesagne was crucial for him to learn Italian. The first thing you did when you arrive back in Mesagne and when you got up in Mesagne? A wonderful meal with my hosting family on my late arrival. The next day I made it a point to visit the lovely people…
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Curzon Artificial Eye, organizes a special screening of the 2016 Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The Italian film director will attend the event, which will take place at Curzon Mayfair Cinema at 6.30pm. Fire at Sea won…
We asked Olga to tell us why the programme in Sorrento was crucial for her to learn Italian. First thing you do when you arrive back in Sorrento? Go to Raki gelateria to get a Vanilla and Ginger gelato! What advice would you give to a tourist? Beyond the most popular activities (like daytripping to Capri, Pompei e Vesuvio and…
Buon Natale! Film & Prosecco Christmas Party Come and celebrate Natale with teachers and students at the Italian Cultural Institute. Italian Language Services at the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd November to see an award winning Italian film and celebrate Christmas. Panettone & Prosecco will follow the film so we can toast…
..in a country full of tourists and English speaking waiters, it is a great treat to find such an authentic and unspoilt place.. None of the Italian visitors whom we joined around the table at Agriturismo di Santa Lucia had ever been before, or knew anyone else who had! They marvelled at what they had discovered, and in a country…
The days are shorter and nights are surely chillier in this season but it is a great time to spend in Sorrento anyway! Tourists numbers drop off in the Fall, so the best time to visit it is mid-September, October and November. The warm sun and the brittle nights, the crowd which is smaller and smaller, the sea of the…
At the end of October there will be a knees up like no other when Match&Fuse brings together musicians from 14 countries across Europe as a political ‘up yours’ to the obtuse world we find ourselves in. Like many of you, Match&Fuse believes in moving forward, not backward, and our music policy reflects that. 2 days of gigs happen in 7…