Our private lessons in italian are mostly individual, but can be taught to a maximum of 2 people if you apply together with a friend of yours and provided you have the same level of Italian.
Lessons are tailored to your goals and to your level, spanning from grammar to conversation.
Even if you are attending another school but find it hard to follow lessons, or if you wish a brief but intensive course, you are very welcome.
The Teacher
The teacher, Alberto, holding a Florence University degree in Political Sciences/International Law, has been teaching Italian to foreigners since 1993, is fluent in English and French, has a good command of Japanese, and some knowledge of German.
Knowing well the false similarities and grammatical differences between Italian and your mother tongue, Alberto will teach you what you need to learn, at a pace to suit you, enabling you to communicate effectively, in a kind and grammatically correct way.
Lessons are tailored to your goals and to your level, spanning from grammar to conversation.
Even if you are attending another school but find it hard to follow lessons, or if you wish a brief but intensive course, you are very welcome.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY & METHOD
Maybe you have come across those “Learn Italian Super-Fast and Effortlessly” methods, making you parrot pre-packaged sentences: they may be great at giving you the IMPRESSION you can speak Italian, as long as you are dealing with exactly the situations described in your illustrated text-book: but they are ill-suited to tackle the new, unpredictable situations that you will be faced with in your daily life in Italy, OUT of the classroom.
At AZ Language Services instead, you will gradually but systematically acquire the grammatical framework and the grammatical tools that will enabe you to independently create sentences of your own, to really express what you mean.
Alberto tries to keep a good balance between the students’ need to experiment through conversation on one hand, and the need for a systematic study of the Italian grammar on the other:
so, from the very beginning of your course, you will apply your new grammatical tools to meaningful conversation, learning how to interact with Italian people around you, making friends with them, sharing your views with them, and solving the practical problems of your everyday life in Italy.
You will actively exercise the four fundamental functions of language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. As you go along, each time the flow of your expression or comprehension is hindered by grammatical or vocabulary problems, your teacher will remove those stumbling blocks, providing you with the key grammatical structures and the vocabulary you need to express yourself, or understand.
HOW LESSONS ARE ORGANIZED
Our lesson plans are always structured in “4-week terms”.
Your first “four week term” can start on any Monday of the year, except, of course, during holidays.
There are two ways of getting a reduced price for your lessons, and you can use one or both of them:
- by booking (and paying in advance for) a higher number of hours of lesson within each 4-week term;
- by booking (and paying in advance for) lessons to be taken during “TWO OR THREE
CONSECUTIVE FOUR-WEEK TERMS“.
