The class groups are formed based upon the results of the entrance test and upon the total number of students. In all the courses - taking into consideration the characteristics of each level - we aim for the same objective: to make the student capable of understanding, speaking, reading and writing the living language fluently; we obtain really special results also with the beginners.
In order to reach these objectives we guarantee each student a special individual attention (tutorial) throughout the whole week and especially on Saturday morning.

EXAMPLE OF WEEKLY TIMETABLE (INTERMEDIATE) Can always be adapted to suit specific requirements.
INTERMEDIATE (1° e 2°): 14 hours language and conversation, 11 hours culture.

* Lesson hours:
morning: 8.50 - 10.50 (break) and 11.20 - 12.20;
Saturday tuition: 9.00 - 11.00;
afternoon: conversation and culture: 14.30 - 16.30/18.30;
arts & handicrafts: 14.30 - 17.30;
Italian cookery course: ore 18.30 - 21.30.

We have studied a very varied and balanced weekly dose between language lessons, conversation and culture according to the needs of each level. All the courses have 25 hours of lessons weekly. The courses for beginners and pre-intermediates have 17 hours of language and conversation, plus 4 hours of supplementary conversation and 4 hours of culture; the courses for intermediates have 17 hours of language and conversation and 8 of culture; the courses for advanced have 14 hours of language and conversation and 11 of culture. The superior course has its own specific programme, very rich in cultural subjects: 11 hours of language and conversation and 14 hours of culture.
All the cultural subjects are included in the enrolment fees for the courses and they are divided in curriculum and optional subjects. The curriculum subjects (in the morning) are those which are designed to give basic cultural knowledge to all the class group, and they vary, naturally, from class to class; The optional subjects (in the afternoon) are designed to carefully look into individual interests and they can be attended by all who are interested. In order to include them in the programme there must be at least 10 interested students.