Welcome to the "Otranto nel Mondo" School of Italian language and Italian culture in South Italy, Apulia. The Italian language school for foreign students "Otranto nel Mondo" (literally, Otranto in the World) aims to promote the Italian language and Italian culture throughout the world. With this in mind we have drawn up an agreement with the prestigious " Perugia University for Foreign Students " (Italy) and with " Otranto Town Council " (Italy).
The Italian Language School for foreign students in Italy is able to provide Italian language courses at six levels; each course participant’s level of knowledge of the Italian language is assessed by means of initial tests.
In the Italian Language School Otranto nel Mondo, teachers prepare foreign students for CELI (recognized by the University for Foreigners of Perugia) and CILS (recognized by the University for Foreigners of Siena) exams. By arrangement with the Perugia Universtity for Foreign Students, the Italian language school is an examination centre for the Certificates in Italian Language (CELI) and Business Italian (CIC). The Italian language school is in partnership with IGCO - Italia Giappone Concie Office.
Our Italian language school is open all year. Our teachers are graduates in the study of Italian language and are specialist’s in teaching Italian to foreigners. Our teachers attend a course at the Perugia University for foreign students.
Our method of teaching is modern and flexible, and both during school and during free time, spoken Italian language is emphasized from the first day on. At all levels, only Italian language will be spoken. During free time we promote integration between students and Italian people, organizing culture activities every night where a number of trained Italian friends are invited, that will help you to socialize and to verify your knowledge of the Italian language.
The school overlooks the sea and it is not more than 5 minutes’ walk from the town center and 100 metres from the beach. The atmosphere at the Italian language school is intimate and relaxed. Classes range from 10 to a maximum of 12 foreign students. Our aim is to create a lively and stimulating relationship between teachers and students. We encourage the foreign students to talk and interact both inside the classroom and outside.
Otranto, " The Gateway To The East " and prestigious " City of Art ", is a tourist town in South Italy, in the Province of Lecce, situated on the easternmost point of the Salento Peninsula. At a distance of 50 km is situated the City of Lecce known as the " Florence of the south'".
Our Italian Language Courses:
Italian Language Basic Course
The Basic Course is offered at all levels from beginner to advanced. With this course you can combine studying and a vacation. The course is designed for students who wish to study Italian and have a summer vacation at the same time. The activity program gives you many opportunities to immerse yourself in Italian Language & Italian Culture and to visit Otranto, Lecce (known as The Florence of the south') and other town: Alberobello, Ostuni, Matera and more.
10 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 08 periods of general Italian language teaching to consolidate bases of Italian grammar and Italian vocabulary and 2 periods of Italian conversation on topics of general interest, or those suggested by participants.
- No. of lessons per week – 10;
- Duration: min 1 - max 24 weeks;
- Levels: beginner - intermediate – advanced;
- No. of students per class: max 12 students;
- Prices 2006: 1 week -€ 110, 2 weeks € - 220, additional weeks - € 110;
- Private one-on-one Italian lessons - € 30/Hour;
- Administration and registration fee - €85;
- Starting Dates: Jan: 22 / Feb: 13 - 27 / Mar: 13 – 27 / Apr: 03 – 10 – 24 / May: 08 – 22 / Jun: 05 – 19 / Jul: 03 – 17 – 31 / Aug: 07 – 21 / Sep: 4 – 18 / Oct: 9 – 23 / Nov: 6 - 20 / Dec: 4 – 11;
- Class hours: 09,00-11,00 or 11,00-13,00 or 16.00-19.00.
Italian Language Intensive Courses
The Intensive Course is offered at all levels from beginner to advanced. An intensive course is ideal for people who want to make rapid progress in a short time. The activity program gives you opportunities to visit Otranto, Lecce (known as The Florence of the south') and other town: Alberobello, Ostuni, Matera and more.
20 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 16 periods of general Italian language teaching to consolidate bases of Italian grammar and Italian vocabulary, 2 periods of Italian culture and 2 periods of Italian conversation on topics of general interest, or those suggested by participants.
- No. of lessons per week - 20;
- Duration: min 1 - max 24 weeks;
- Levels: beginner - intermediate – advanced;
- No. of students per class: max 12 students;
- Prices 2006: 1 week - € 175, 2 weeks - € 350, additional weeks - € 170;
- Private one-on-one Italian lessons - € 30/Hour;
- Administration and registration fee - € 85;
- Starting Dates: Jan: 22 / Feb: 13 - 27 / Mar: 13 – 27 / Apr: 03 – 10 – 24 / May: 08 – 22 / Jun: 05 – 19 / Jul: 03 – 17 – 31 / Aug: 07 – 21 / Sep: 4 – 18 / Oct: 9 – 23 / Nov: 6 - 20 / Dec: 4 – 11;
- Class hours: 09, 00-13, 00 or 16, 00-20, 00.
Italian Language IntensivePlus Course
The Italian Language IntensivePlus Course is offered at all levels from beginner to advanced. With this course you can to learn or perfect our language. This course is aimed at students who either wish to prepare specifically for official examinations of Italian Language (CELI - recognized by the University for Foreigners of Perugia - and CILS - recognized by the University for Foreigners of Siena). The activity program gives you opportunities to visit Otranto, Lecce (known as The Florence of the south') and other town: Alberobello, Ostuni, Matera and more.
30 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 20 periods of general Italian language teaching to consolidate bases of Italian grammar and Italian vocabulary, 4 periods of Italian culture and 6 periods of Italian conversation on topics of general interest, or those suggested by participants.
- No. of lessons per week – 30;
- Duration: min 2 - max 24 weeks;
- Levels: beginner - intermediate – advanced;
- No. of students per class: max 12 students;
- Prices 2006: 2 weeks - € 600, additional weeks - € 290;
- Private one-on-one Italian lessons - € 30/Hour;
- Administration and registration fee: € 85;
- Starting Dates: Jan: 22 / Feb: 13 - 27 / Mar: 13 – 27 / Apr: 03 – 10 – 24 / May: 08 – 22 / Jun: 05 – 19 / Jul: 03 – 17 – 31 / Aug: 07 – 21 / Sep: 4 – 18 / Oct: 9 – 23 / Nov: 6 - 20 / Dec: 4 – 11;
- Class hours: 09, 00-13, 00 / 16, 00-19, 00;
Other Courses:
1. Italian Language course and Immersion course:
Italian course: 10 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 8 periods of general language teaching to consolidate bases of grammar and vocabulary and 2 periods of conversation on topics of general interest.
Immersion course (including oxygen bottle, reloading, weights, rubber dinghy, trainer):
- Single immersion;
- Full-day (2 immersions for day);
- Immersion by night;
- guided Snorkeling;
Open Water Diver (max. 18 meters)
Advanced Open Water Diver (max 30 meters). Advanced including these speciality Diver:
- Speciality: Boat Diving;
- Speciality: Deep Diving;
- Speciality: Night Diving;
- Speciality: Navigation;
2. Italian Language Course and Trekking
Italian course: 10 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 8 periods of general language teaching to consolidate bases of grammar and vocabulary and 2 periods of conversation on topics of general interest.
The Trekking is a dance. It allows you to discover the territory. To make trekking means to walk but also to observe, to listen, to excite him for the small things, as the light flight of a butterfly.
Trekking course:
a. Town: Otranto
Way: “La Valle dell’Idro e delle memorie”. Duration: 5 hours. It’s possible to see crypts with frescoes, incions and karst (ic) forms, hided in the typical vegetation.
b. Town: Martano, Carpignano S. and other town. Way: “La Grecia Salentina”. Duration: 4 hours. It’s possibile to see “specchie”, court, underground olive press, roman plan road. These itineraries are two of the possible excursions destination.
3. Italian Language course and food-and-wine itinerary
Italian course: 10 weekly teaching periods of 50 minutes each, from Monday to Friday, consisting of 8 periods of general language teaching to consolidate bases of grammar and vocabulary and 2 periods of conversation on topics of general interest.
Food-and-wine itinerary: Area Adriatic
Trekking through Otranto (Border Oriental) with lunch in a farm to tasty the typical products. Farm: euro 25 per person for lunch, including starter, first and second course, side-dish, fruit, dessert, bitters. Including wine and coffee euro 30.
Trekking through Otranto ( “Alfonso e Idrusa”, “Otranto Lakes”, “La Valle dei Cervi di Porto Badisco”, “La Valle dell’Idro e delle Memorie”or“Mamma li Turchi”). The end of the day, supper in a farm to tasty the typical products. Personal cost, laboratory and buffet-lunch: euro 200 per person; personal cost, laboratory and lunch including starter, first and second course, side-dish, fruit, dessert, bitters, with wine euro 260.
Laboratories in a farm all year (cheese production, weaving by bow loom, washing wear by liscivia and farmyard operation). Maximum 10 participants. The costs of the guide is of euro 165 per all day and euro 125 per half day; for a group of 25 people and more they serve two guides. The costs include a personal accident insurance.
Brief Description Other Courses
- Italian literature: Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, he is the father of the Italian language. The Italian private school organizes a monographic course about the writer’s life and works;
- Italian economy: For work or study, the knowledge of economy is important today. The school of Italian language proposes a course about the basic elements of the economy;
- Italian history of art: The course makes possible to examine Leonardo da Vinci’s works, which are in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence;
- Italian jurisprudence: The course makes possible to analyse the world of the Italian politic;
- Italian medicine: The Italian language school organizes a course about the basic elements of the legal medicine;
- Italian cooking: Do you want to known the secrect recipes to prepare a good Italian dish, or to taste the typical Italian courses? Attend our Italian cooking course!!!
- Tour operator course: Specific language for who works in the tourism sector;
- Private one-on-one Italian lessons;
- CELI (Certificates in Italian language) test preparation program;
- Study tours (combined study & touring, walking tour, mountaibike tour &C.);
- Study & sea (with sailing excursions, windsurfing &C.);
- Tourist entertainer;
- Examinations preparation of admission in Italian University;
- Course for teacher of italian;
- Course for worker company;
- Course for specific demands.
Accommodation
All the accommodations are in Otranto and they are 10-15 minutes from the Italian language school and the sea on foot. The Italian language course – frequenters will be settled in flats shared with other students, in double or triple room, the bathroom in common (the towels aren’t included), the Kitchen – room in common with the tools required to prepare and to take the meals (plates, pats, glasses, etc but the foodstuffs aren’t included).
For accommodation students should go the school offices and from 4pm on the day of arrival a member of staff will be available to deal with any problems.Prices 2006: 1 week - € 140, 2 weeks - € 280, additional weeks - € 140, high season July - € 60. August - € 120. The price includes weekly change of sheets, consumption light, water and gas and final room-cleaning. The price does not include: heating supplement (in winter) - € 5 per day.
Other Accommodation
- private apartment;
- single room in a flat;
- single room in a selected host family;
- residence’ accommodation for groups of students;
- room in a hotel or ‘residence’ (TV/Phone/Air-Conditioned);
- Bed & Breakfast.
Faculty Information:
Our aim is to create a lively and stimulating relationship between teachers and students. We encourage the foreign students to talk and interact both inside the classroom and outside.
Our teachers are graduates in the study of italian language and are specialist’s in teaching Italian to foreigners. Our teachers attend a course at the Perugia University for foreign students. The atmosphere at the italian language school is intimate and relaxed.
Our Italian language school is an examination centre for the Certificates in Italian Language (CELI) and Business Italian (CIC). The Italian language school is in partnership with IGCO - Italia Giappone Concie Office.
Other Activities:
The Italian language school organizes recreational activities on request: tennis, soccer, potholing and trekking excursion, 9-hole or 18-hole golfing, kitkarting, windsurfing, gokarting, horse-riding or sailing excursions, wine-tasting course, excursions to the city of Lecce, known as the Florence of the south, Salento and Apulia (Alberobello, Ostuni, Grotte di Castellana, Matera).
Facility Information:
The italian language course - participants will be accommodated in flats shared with other students, in single or double rooms, with shared bathrooms (towels not included), shared kitchen with facilities for preparation and serving of meals (plates, saucepans, glasses, etc.; foodstuffs not included); the flats are in Otranto, not more than 10-15 minutes’ walk from the italian language school and from the sea.
Notes:
Fees includes:
- initial entry tests;
- books and teaching materials;
- travel organisation and booking facilities (for planes, trains, &c.);
- free internet facilities;
- 10% discount at restaurant recommended by the Italian language school;
- final dinner for course-members and issuing of certificate of attendance
Fees do not include:
- accident and sickness insurance (medical expenses and health assistance).
- transfer: from Lecce station to Otranto (50km) and vice versa - € 20 per person from Brindisi airport to Otranto (95km) and vice versa: € 40 per person from Bari airport to Otranto (210km) and vice versa: € 140 per person a 40% supplement for transfers between 8pm and 8am.
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