A Door to Italy - Scuola di Italiano per stranieri

Location

A Door to Italy – Scuola di Italiano per Stranieri - is in the heart of Genoa, close to the greatest historical centre in Europe, in the middle of the university area and a few steps from the sea-front pedestrian area, today emblem of the spirit of renewal and modernization that has driven Genoa’s transformation in this last decade. Today the city can offer itself to visitors as a perfect blend of art, history and modernity.

The school is located in one of the numerous ancient and fascinating buildings which make Genoa a very charming town, historically known as the “Superba”.

School and courses
The purpose of the school is to provide highly qualified and specialized Italian language courses, geared to the specific needs of our students.

The standard and intensive courses broadly respond to a lot of the necessities that students encounter during the learning of a foreign language. The courses teach how to face daily situations, providing essential lexical and grammatical bases and more and more complex in relationship to the degree and level of faced study.

For those who needs to learn Italian language for special purposes, A Door to Italy provide

  • Business Italian course
  • CELI,CIC,CILS, PLIDA certification courses
  • Italian for tourism
  • Conversation courses

Apart the Italian language courses, a wide range of different proposals combining the study of the language with different activities is available. It is possible to deep into all the aspects of the Italian culture or to experience a pleasant study holiday through open-air sport activities during the afternoon.

  • La Dolce la Vita to understand the Italian people and lifestyle through the cult films of the past and present popular films
  • Cooking to taste and learn to prepare Italian dishes, to taste local flavours and to know more about culinary traditions
  • Italian and Diving for a simple pleasant diving experience (expert divers) or to get diving certificates (beginners or advanced divers)while experiencing the beautiful marine gulf and its deep life in the protected marine park of Liguria
  • Sono Solo Canzonette a perfect way to improve and train the pronounciation, the vocabulary and the intonationthrough Italian songs and song writers

Credits

  • A Door to Italyruns the CELI preparation courses at the official exam centre in Genoa “Deledda International School” recognized by the University for foreigners of Perugia.
  • A Door to Italy coordinates and runs the RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester / U.S.) summer study abroad program.
  • For students in Sweden courses are recognized by Swedish CSN (Swedish National Board for Higher education).
  • For workers in Germany courses are recognized by the German BILDUNGSURLAUB.
  • Scholarships are available at the Italian Cultural Institutes abroad.