The question “how old are you?” is the example I often use to try to stop my students translating everything they want to say very literally from English to Italian. The literal translation of “how old are you?” in Italian would be “quanto vecchio sei tu?” Here, we have two problems: first the position of the subject, verb and adjective,…
Learning how to speak Italian can be an amazingly satisfying and fun experience, provided you approach this wonderful language with the appropriate self-motivation and in the most favourable environment (such as an Italian language course at our Italian language school in Rome ? ). Studying Italian in Italy with a full immersion in the Italian culture is always the best way to learn Italian language, especially if you consider…
It can be hard to find a place in Italy where you can really live in an authentic town, get involved with local people, and speak and listen! The little town of Agnone, steeped in an ancient culture, has many traditions binding a friendly community. It’s what goes on outside the classroom that makes the experience so special. Here’s just…
Cinema Made in Italy is offering the chance for you and a friend to go to an exclusive screening of the Italian film, Una Famiglia at Cine Lumiere on Sunday 11th March. When CINEMA MADE IN ITALY returns to London’s Ciné Lumière, Italian cinema lovers will once again be able to sample some of the best recent Italian productions which are on offer, in yet another…
Ciao! Learn Italian with social experiences Meet teachers and students in a real Italian cafè Learn to make Italian pasta Visit Italy with the Italian teacher Book presentations by Italian authors Italian film nights Italian tailor-made courses for you in Italy and in London Calendar of events for 2018 4 March: Cooking-Italian lesson with a short introduction on…
Un’attività di lettura e comprensione per i nostri studenti preparata dai colleghi della scuola ilsasso.com di Montepulciano. Buona lettura! Sostituisci le parole evidenziate con i sinonimi Comprare, pozione, grandissima, abitano, turisti, piccoli, opportunità, ferie, assistenti, camminare Livello a2/b1 Per fortuna, Montepulciano non è solo una città per l’estate, una di quelle località turistiche dove, alla fine di Ottobre, si chiude…
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)…
