Summer Italian Courses in Italy

Koiné - Italian Language Summer Courses in Rome:
Koiné - Italian Language Centre in Rome provides an Italian language summer school on the beach in Rossano, a beautiful town of Calabria, a region in Southern Italy, south of Naples. We provide transfer from transfer from Lamezia Terme Airport (also in the Calabria region) to Rossano. The summer / vacation program includes 2-weeks of intensive Italian and visits around the historical centre of the Bizantine Rossano, the Corigliano’s castle and the Sibari’s escavation. During this time, you can enjoy popular local feasts, the typical food, the popular music and local good wine.

The Italian Summer School on the beach consists of:

- Two weeks language vacation in Rossano in Calabria, a region in the south of Italy
- Intensive Italian course (20h), for 2 hours per day from Monday to Friday
- Visits around the historical centre of the Bizantine Rossano, the Corigliano’s castle and the Sibari’s escavation
- One day boat trip and one day to the Aquapark Odissea 2000
- The vacation also includes a coulinary route in Agriturism, a kind of farm, where you can see how local products are made, to make them with the same productors, taste typical food and wine enjoying the calabrese nature

Our teaching methods aim at developing the student’s communication skills. Students actively practice the four fundamental functions of language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Although we give particular attention to conversation to let students express themselves in Italian from the very beginning of the course. To engage all learners, teachers use communicative techniques and strategies aimed at involving students and creating a friendly and nice atmosphere that inspires enthusiasm and happyness in the learning process, essencial items to learn a foreign language. 

Our Tutors:
Our Italian language tutors are DITALS educated at University for Foreigners of Siena and members of APIDIS (Italian Teachers for Foreigners Professional Association) with significant teaching experience. Their work is based on the passion and love for their own language and culture. Many of them have dedicated their professional life to teaching while others have found their vocation while living in a foreign country.