A Living Language and Cultural Experience in Southern Italy
The course is designed to allow the student to study Italian starting from his/her present level through regularly structured classroom activity that represents the base for specific task oriented projects, facilitating and utilising at its utmost the opportunity of on-site learning.
The student, in fact, will follow theoretical lessons and be given assignments to carry out in the community that will necessarily need the use of the language, experience that in turn will be object of analysis and discussion in the classroom. The language is expression of the culture that will be introduced through different aspects of its history, art, music, food, social system and structure.
This will happen in the Southern Italian context, where the Ancient Greeks expanded Hellenism as early as 750 B.C., where Pompei was destroyed in 79 A.D. and Hannibal tried to defeat Rome.
The lectures on these subjects, in Italian or English according to the level of the students, will have a hands-on approach, with the experience of sightseeing, cooking a meal, enjoying a concert, visiting a social service agency and other similar pertinent experiences.
Course outline
Level 1 (Beginners)
This course is intended for students who have never studied Italian. The course will focus on basic grammar, reading, dictation, intensive practice in speech patters and written structure as well as conversation and composition. Films and selected readings will be used in describing Italian culture.
Level 2 (Intermediate)
This course is for students who have studied some Italian and wish to pursue in advanced levels. The course aims at improving grammar, reading and analysis of literary text. Oral presentation and class discussions will help improve knowledge of Italian civilization.
Level 3 (Advanced Italian)
An introduction to text analysis. This part of the course is intended for students ho have a good knowledge of Italian grammar and wish to pursue studies in Italian Literature. The students will work on a selected novel.
The gourmet's touch.
Cooking
Dinner will be an important moment of the day and of the whole Italian course, As we are conviced that through flavours, smell and the emotions that these can give, you can really get to know the culture of a country, during the two-week courses 2 dinners will be organized. For this reason every evening students will assist in the preparation of various dishes and in turn (in small groups) will be actively involved in the actual cooking process, making fresh home made pasta, as well as meat, fish and cheese specialties, all typical of the territory. The final evening will see the participants as protagonists, as they will be cooking, organised in small groups, for the farewell dinner.
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Special meetings
For wine lovers a packet of special wine meetings can be arranged at the cost of Euro 100, which includes:
- Wine & Cheese: an evening of fantastic cheeses and great Italian wines, in a voyage to search the secrets of this perfect marriage.
- Itinerari di vino: visit to one of the most important winery of the Region..
- Meeting with an oenophile, to get more insight on the world of wine.
