Living and studying with a private teacher

Forget your own language for a while and enjoy the advantage of a natural assimilation of the Italian language and culture.

Our language and culture homestays are a unique opportunity to learn Italian,actively, naturally and thoroughly.

With us and with your tutor, we recommend you prepare, specify and discuss personal study interests before lessons begin. These may include concentrating on grammar and conversation, or on personalized tuition linked to literature, history, art or music.
Tuition is mainly given in the morning in the comfort of your teacher's home. You should make a constant effort to speak Italian all day and every day.

As mentioned elsewhere, in a language school students inevitably meet other students from their own country and during their free time go back to
speaking in their own language. In a host family this cannot happen. You think and speak Italian in every day-by-day situation. This round-the-clock exercise is the very heart of constant
and permanent learning.

The guest student lives in the home as one of the family. Tuition is given daily and is individually-planned, tutor-to-student. Accommodation is in comfortable homes of excellent quality, in or near Florence and in the Chianti Wine area. All meals are taken in the family and guests have private room and private bath.

The successful student.
Before beginning an Italian Language and Culture Homestays, you are
strongly advised to:
- Prepare to adjust yourself to your new Italian studies and to the
length of time you will be away from home.
- Prepare to live with, and accept, those cultural differences which may exist between your own country and Italy.
- Prepare to accept, and learn from, the local daily way of life,
however different from your own.
- Prepare to live in harmony with your family and make a
constant daily effort to study and speak the language.
- Prepare a study plan, according to your personal interests. This plan will be discussed with your teacher before tuition begins.