L"Italiano Porticando Srl

L'Italiano Porticando, situated in the pedestrian area of Turin's historic city centre, the Quadrilatero Romano, is a small, friendly and informal school for Italian language and culture for foreigners. The school was founded at the beginning of 2005 with the aim to be a cut above ordinary language schools in Turin and to provide a specialized centre and point of reference for those who want to study the Italian language and culture in Turin. Turin is in a city well-known as an industrial centre, but little-known by tourists, Turin has, however, an incredible artistic and cultural legacy to offer to those who love Italy, its language and its culture. The school’s teachers are selected with great care according to their education and their experience as teachers for Italian language and culture to foreigners. All teachers are native speakers, have a university degree, and are highly motivated and experienced in supporting foreign students in their first meeting with Italy and the Italian language and during the language learning process. Together with real professionals of the region activities like cooking workshops, wine tastings, sight-seeing tours and visits to museums will be organized. In this way language learning will become a real cultural experience for those who want to learn Italian in Turin.

Turin and Piedmont Unique to discover, to visit and to experience. A region rich in history, art and culture. A real surprise for the attentive and curious visitor. Turin, the Roman city, centre of Baroque, a place where gourmets meet, first capital of Italy, industrial city and home to modern art and many international museums. Turin, the capital of a region which will fascinate the visitor and leave an unforgettable impression through it’s charming cities, gastronomical routes and the beauty of nature. All this in a friendly and pleasant atmosphere – an opportunity one should not miss. Turin and Piedmont ... a place where having a good time and relaxing is easy. Actually, the town and the region offer to their visitors many events and numerous opportunities to have a good time, to relax and to discover new and particular things: - Concerts, theatre, opera - Museums - Exhibitions and cultural events - Restaurants, winebars and pubs - Oenogastronomical events - festivals and historical recallings - Trekking in hills around Turin - Excursions to the Alps and to the Seaside - Excursions to the Langa and the wineyards, where famous wines like Barolo, Barbera and Barbaresco are produced - Excursions to the "big" lakes of Piedmont (Lago Maggiore and Lago D'Orta) - and many other things ...

The Courses L'Italiano Porticando offers to its students - private lessons - classes in small groups and - standard courses. The courses are organized according to the level of the students, i.e. for - beginners - advanced beginners - intermediate - advanced intermediate - lower advanced - advanced The main target of the course is to improve communication skills, nevertheless listening comprehension as well as reading and writing abilities will also be focused on. This is also valid for the language holiday courses as well as for the special topic and the job related courses. Private lessons, courses in small groups and standard courses can be integrated with the school's cultural courses, which enrich the language course with knowledge about the places visited and with many different extra-curricular activities. For those who want to do more than a simple language course the school proposes the combined courses, which offer the possibility to combine a 3 or 4 h/day standard course with additional private lessons, a course on history, on history of arts, on architecture, on cinema, business Italian or with Tango classes. The duration of a course will depend on the type of course chosen. Language holidays can be extended individually by the participants through adding private lessons or courses in small groups.

Accommodation The accommodation depends on the choice and budget of the student, but also on the type of course chosen. For language and educational trips, for example, it could be a farmstay, a bed and breakfast, a charming little hotel, an old castle transformed into a hotel or an appartment. The school, however, will provide a service to their students in order to find suitable accommodation.

At the beginning of each month the school presents to its students the activities of the month (normally 2 activities per week). All of them are free of charge. The student has to pay for museums' or the tranfers. During all activities the students will comunicate with their teachers and classmates in Italian, thus having an additional possibility to practise the language.