2024

Ho aspettato migliorare il mio Italiano in un atmosfera rilassata e scoprire la città.

Per me il corso era meglio che ho aspettavo - ho migliorato mia grammatica, ho parlato troppo in italiano e - anche importante - ho riso troppo durante le lezioni. I soggetti per parlare erano interessanti.
Soprattutto l’atmosfera nella scuola è benissima, con tutti gli studenti e insegnanti simpatici - un po’ come una grande famiglia.

Forse i gruppi erano un po’ troppi grandi.

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Forse dividere il gruppo in due o tre gruppi durante le passeggiate, perché sono troppo gente per veramente sentire la storia.

None

Well

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My room was very clean but the rest of the apartment (especially the bathroom) had not been cleaned for a long time (Viccolo Cattani 6).

To learn italian language and be emmersed in italy

The course more than exceeded my expectations, it was a fantastic experience that I won't be able to do justice to in this text. But the key highlights are the teaching staff, the atmosphere and the extracurricular activities which promote relationships with other students inside and outside your own class.

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Branding/ website/ social media. What the school provides is amazing and it would be great to see the digital side of the school match the level of excellence in the classroom.

Thank you so much for the experience, it was amazing and I hope that one day I will be able to come back and continue learning the language with you. If you ever want a photographer for promotional images let me know!

conversazioni interessanti che mi aiutassero a migliorare il mio parlato e compiti da fare a casa come preparazione per la lezione dell'indomani

in tutto: sono stato molto soddisfatto, quello che facevo con Nazzarena mi e' piaciuto e mi ha aiutato molto,

siccome le mie aspettative erano semplici, chiare, e pienamente realizzate, non c'e' stato niente in cui il corso non abbia corrisposto.

non mi piacerebbe proporre miglioramenti...

... ne' dare consigli a eccezione di quello di cercare di assumere piu' insegnanti maschili

troppe domande ripetute nel questionario

fare piu' breve

To develop confidence in expressing myself as a beginner to the language as the U3A course I attend in UK has not developed my spoken Italian

Excellent - Nazzarina and Linda were both first class teachers and I cannot thank them enough for their patience and encouragement at all times despite my faulting Italian. I felt much more confident is speaking simple Italian by the end of the course and motivated to find a different class that matches my needs in UK

It was all very positive

I enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and the buzz of younger students. The only improvement I would suggest is that the historic tour of Bologna was all in Italian and that was difficult for a beginner.

Stay as you are - marvellous in all respects.

No complaints - just the one suggestion regarding the historical tour

Un corso d’italiano

Il corso ha superato le mie aspettative perché i piani didattici delle lezioni sono stati ben strutturati e gli insegnanti erano molto simpatici e responsabili, il che lo ha reso facile da seguire

Non c’è

An immersive Italian learning experience.

Yes, in every way.

I don't understand the question. Having paid for the course, I received everything that I expected. The accommodation was not included in the school fee and I paid it separately.

Nothing that I can think of.

No.

no

no

I had started to learn a bit with Duolingo, and wanted to progress more rapidly with more intensity, and also with a more formal approach to the language.

It met my expectations perfectly. The focus on conversations, fluency, and immediate application of principles was done in a splendid way, more than I thought was possible in a language class.

Nothing comes to mind.

I would not change a thing. I don't if classes are smaller or larger at this time of year, but I thought the size of the classes was perfect (with Marco, Claudia).

No.

Improve mu B1 level

Good. I had a lot conversation and exercises to get ready my gramar

Very effective

Having plenty opportunity for talking

Perfectly

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cercavo di imparare bene le strutture e le grammatica italiana e acquistare un buon livello nella parla. Mi piaceva il numero de ore di lezione per potere avere tempo libero e non diventare una coza troppo pensante per me, che avevo voglia di imparare ma sopratutto di sfrutare con la lingua italiana e conoscere una cultura diversa

in tutte sensa dubbio e ancora in più. Non mi aspettavo di divertirmi cosí tanto andato a lezzione ogni giorno in 11 settimane. I miei gruppi di compagni sono stati fantastiqui, generossi ma sopratutto divertenti. Sempre c'era un senso di umore speciale e le professoresse facevano una mescolansa di istruzzione e di accompagno nel percorso di studio fantastico, preparatto di manera ottima ma allora molto aperto a domanda o cambiamento frutto de quello que poteva accadere ogni giorno.

questo no so cosa dire, perche veramente, como ho detto prima, le mie spettative sono stati superatti sempre

qualche volte ci sente un può di rumore della strada, perche qualche finestra non si chiude bene.
magari mancarebbe un paio in piú di toilette.

avete creato tutti e tutte un modo di insegnare la lingua e la cultura italiana veramente molto piacevole, divertente, attivo, creativo e riferendosi sempre alla attualità, tanto de la lingua como de la societtà del vostro paese. Per me un consiglio sarebbe capire quello che avete di singolare che fa che a tutti piacciono rimanere e ritornare.

quando ho visto la publicittà per internet, pensavo che farei 2 ore al giorno e alla fine sono estate 3 (2 sessioni di 1h30). Magari sono stato io che non avevo capito bene e é stata una grata sorpresa vedere che erano 3!

Migliorare la mia capacità di conversare con la gente del posto.

Superato!

I hoped to learn a bit more Italian during my visit to Bologna.

Luigi was an excellent teacher! He created classes specific to my level and the things I wanted to learn. Each class was interesting and informative.

No complaints at all.

Improve my italian

fully met

I chose to stay in a family to be able to speak in the evenings. I never saw my landlord because he was traveling the whole week

see above. The room and the location were excelent

there were too many people in the conversation class

a pitty that the cooking evenings were both canceled

I wanted to lern in the intensive course as much as possible in one week. I know, these few days could only be a first step, but I wanted to get a feeling for the language, I wanted to get some grammar instructions and some conversation tools.
And I wanted to have a good time in Bologna with other pupils. I looked forward to the cooking courses and other highlights after the school.

I had a really good time in Bologna. There were many so nice people in my class from all over the world.
The teachers were perfect - very good an always friendly! Thank you all!
This first little step was very important for me and it would not be the last one!

More fresh air in the classrooms.
A whiteboard instead of a blackboard with chalks.

It would be helpful for the beginners to get some more work documents with the most important rules of the grammar.

I expected to improve my spoken facilities

we had many possibilities to speak and therefore I made great progress

I would have appreciated if the teachers spend some of the communication time to improve the pronunciation of the students and the right grammar while speaking. There was a lot of communication which is very good, but with awkward accents, and it did not get better at the end of the week. I suddenly realized that I adapted a bit the Spanish and French accents of my class-mates, what a horror! I got pronunciation help in the restaurants by the servers, but not from the teachers.

While communicating also B1 students forget the simplest grammar rules of A1 (male, female, singular, plural) and only seem to be aware of the grammar during the grammar lessons but do not transfer to everyday use. Most students need help to pronounce more like an Italian and to get in use the grammar they learned transferred into their spoken Italian.

During my first week I only was teached comparison and superlatives. That was a bit too much, especially because I only stayed for two weeks.

to get a good base for the structure of italian language and be able to do a conversation

the structure was teached really good. The teachers (Maria, Stefania) were great. For the first days with Massimo it was a little bt harder, to learn the structure. This is maybe not a problem of Massimo, but myself as i need to get used to learn, which i did not in such a particular way for ages

Quite good. My expectation was, that it is not that difficult to learn the language, but this was just my subjective approach.
For me it would be helpful to improve the organisation of documents, to have a clearer structure for review it and to dig into it at any time, once you want to repeat or deep-diving the structure of language

As mentioned, a better structure/organisation of the documents would be great. Sometimes you are lost in between documents you get provided and your own notices done while the lessons

It could be helpful it CulturaItaliana would recommend any reasonable online-tool for "home-study" after attending the course.

Mi aspettavo un buon clima di insegnamento e un programma extrascolastico vario.

Mi è piacuto il stile di insegnamento.
Mi è piaciuto anche il modo in cui gli insegnanti si rapportavano con gli studenti. le lezioni erano sempre molto stimolanti.
Mi sono piaciute anche le lezioni extra due volte al pomeriggio.

Le attività sono quasi sempre le stesse. avrei trovato più interessante se ci fosse stata più varietà.

vorrei imparare una lingua in un´atmosfera rilassanta. vorrei un senso per la lingua italiana. vorrei studiare qualcosa di nuova.

mi sono sentito molto bene a scuola.

Professional, dedicated teachers

Very good balance between grammatica and conversation. Interesting topics and discussions.

I did not become a native speaker 🙂
1 week is too short.

Very good programme outside the regular classes/cultural events. However the guided city tour could be splitt in smaller groups. On the other hand it was a good moment to meet all other students.

None. But I appreciated the flexibility to find teachers for private lessons within a short time. Thanks a lot.
Also the WhatsAPP Group is a very good idea and gave me some very good insights and motivation even before my arrival.