"And a disciple asked: tell us of teaching. And he said: nobody can reveal anything to you, except what already rests half-asleep in the roots of your own knowledge. The Master that walks with his disciples in the shade of the temple doesn't lavish his knowledge, but rather his faith and his love. If he is really wise he doesn't impose you to enter in the abode of his wisdom but drives you to the threshold of your mind. The astronomer can tell you about what he knows of space but he can not deliver his knowledge to you. The musician can sing you the rhythm that pervades creation but he can not give you his ear that halts that rhythm neither his voice that resounds it. The vision of a human being doesn't lend its wings to another human being. And as each of you is alone in the conscience of God, so each one must be alone in his knowledge of God and in the knowledge of the world "

Gibran Kahlil Gibran, The prophet,1923

On a basis of a standard program, some grammatical and conversational subjects can be decided and planned together with the students.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE METHOD The teaching staff consists of experienced, university-trained professionals with a solid experience in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. Some teachers have worked abroad with students of very different nationalities and levels and have acquired a particular sensitivity to the specific demands of every participant. The service of reception and didactic orientation offered by the tutors is based on the didactic principles of the "project work": upon their arrival the students will determine with the teachers the level of their linguistic knowledge. The teachers will help the students clarify their real purposes and they will plan together the stages of "the learning-project". The teacher has a role of organizer, guide and animator of various phases of the learning-project which includes only the institutional course but also the personal activities carried out out of the course.  The purpose is to allow students optimum time for linguistic learning and avoid the dispersion of useful energies.

The schoool promotes linguistic exchanges with Italian speaking
people in an informal context:  meetings can take place at the beach, at a restaurant or at a bar.  Our students find this method very useful to improve their speaking skills.

Two people speaking different languages ( i.e: an Italian and a foreigner) can work together to help to improve their knowledge of the foreign language while discovering some aspects of the partner's culture. Every partner is responsible for his own learning and he decides what he wants to learn, what he wants the partner to correct and what he wants to ask.

While the students are not in the classrooms, they are stimulated by the tutors to utilize the self-learning , method that provides maximum potentiality for learning to learn which is at the base of all knowledge. This method allows the students, through the control of their progress, to improve the efficiency of their learning and to strengthen the motivation of their study. 

The school has adopted self-learning as a complementary and coordinate method to the traditional teaching in the classroom. This reduces the negative impact of anxiety and inhibition that often accompany the learning of a foreign language.

In order to promote self-learning the school has created an accomodating atmosphere: classrooms provided with audio-visual supports, a multimedia laboratory and a library where students can find every kind of book, as well as, the most famous Italian films.