Italian courses — three formats, one academic framework
We deliberately offer three course formats — not seven. Each one is built for a specific kind of student. Choose by intent (study visa? working full-time? bringing a faculty cohort?), not by the number of hours stacked into a brochure.
All three formats run at six CEFR levels (A1 → C2), with small groups, native-speaker teachers with university qualifications, communicative method, and continuous level testing. Available in Milan, Florence, Mantua and Turin.
Choose your format
Standard
20 in-class lessons per week. The most direct format: a consistent full-time classroom rhythm. Six levels, weekly start dates for most levels, small groups. Study-visa eligible.
Light
Daily in-class lessons plus 2 hours/day of structured guided self-study. Same documented weekly commitment as Standard, lighter daily timetable, more accessible price. Study-visa eligible.
Long-term (visa eligible)
3-month, 6-month, 9-month, and 12-month programs designed around the study-visa process. Consulate-grade documentation, residence permit support, attendance reporting where required.
Standard vs Light — which one?
Standard if you want the simplest visa narrative, you have no work commitments during the day, and a full-time classroom rhythm suits you. Light if you have a job, a family, or you want a lighter daily load at a more accessible price — but you still need a fully documented weekly commitment (e.g. for a study visa or for a residence permit renewal). Both lead to the same exam-ready level if you put in the work.
What's NOT in our catalogue (and why)
We do not run evening-only courses for tourists, weekend mini-courses, or "drop-in" classes. Those formats produce flat outcomes for serious students and crowd the schedule of staff who should be teaching long-form programs. If that's what you need, several excellent schools in Italian city centres do it well — we are not one of them.
Where you can take these formats
Milan
City-centre Academy, weekday schedules built for working adults and visa students.
Florence
17th-century Padri Scolopi campus on Via Bolognese, language lab, on-campus residence.
Mantua
Former Archbishop's Seminary in the centre of a UNESCO Renaissance city.
Turin
Modern three-storey campus near Parco del Valentino, 10 classrooms, library, Aula Magna.
Not sure yet? Tell us where you are now
Give us your starting level (or "none"), your target dates, and what you are trying to achieve — a CILS exam, a visa renewal, a semester abroad, a job in Italy. We respond with a concrete plan that says which format and which city fit, and what your week will actually look like.