Learn Italian in Italy: for more information about our Italian language courses please, contact our Italian language school Porta d'Oriente.

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ITALIAN FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

ITALIAN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATIONS

ART COURSES IN ITALY

Learn Italian in homestay:
live and study with your teacher!

On your Living Learning Italian home tuition course you will be welcomed into your teacher's home where you will experience Italian life as part of a warm, friendly family.

WHAT YOU SHOULD EXPECT:
- You will have one to one or two-to-one lessons with your personal teacher. The study will concern also art, music, cooking, literature, history, traditions. Language is always culture!
- You will have a wide range of individually planned programme of activities (guided visits, the reading of books and magazines, the vision of italian DVDs and the listening to italian CDs).
- You will speak only Italian every day. The courses in homestay are specially designed to meet your individual needs and to maximize your progress. Living in your teacher's home gives you a total, in-depth experience of Italian culture, customs and lifestyle- a unique and invaluable aid to learning.

A brief presentation of your teacher
Desiré lives in Sternatìa, a small village of the Grecìa Salentina, in the hearth of the Salento, at ten minutes from Lecce and twenty minutes from Otranto. She studied English, French and German.
She lived also in Milan for job as an English teacher in a public school. But she prefers her native place, her Byzantine culture linked to the land, the sea, the folk music and the dance.
She likes sport (football and swimming in particular), motoring, trekking, biking. She loves reading and writing.
She has a degree in foreign languages and in literature and after a course of three years she became a teacher for the Secondary school. She also worked with children in the Primary school.
She took the DITALS, a diploma for teachers to teach Italian to the foreigners. This diploma gave her the possibility to teach Italian language to people of all nationalities. So she thought to open her house to people that want to deep in the Italian culture.

The house
The family house is very comfortable and friendly with coloured walls and well furnished. There is a large living room where the courses are usually taken. In this living room there is a comfortable lounge area with a large sofa, a Plasma-Tv, stereo and Dvd player, a bookcase with many books and a fireplace. The Italian lessons can be held also in the small garden under the lemon, orange and mandarine trees.
Upstairs there are three bedrooms for guests with personal bathroom, desk, chairs, two bedsides, a wardrobe, air conditioning. There is also a light blue kitchen with fridge and three terraces where you can read or relax.

Price:
from October to May: 950 Euro/week
from May to September: 1090 Euro/week

Starting dates:
every monday

The price includes:
- 17 individual lessons per week
- Didactic materials for grammatical excercises
- Internet 24/24 hours with personal computer
- Private bedroom and bathroom and use of the kitchen (there is a full-equiped kitchen for private use)
- Tv and radio
- Breakfast; lunch or dinner with typical food and drinks
- Art, literary, scientific, historical books, cds, videos, magazines to consult.

SPECIAL COURSES	ITALIAN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATIONS
Courses for children	Preparation course for C.I.L.S. examination
Italian for the over 50	Preparation course for C.E.L.I. examination
Business Italian	Cils and Celi on-line preparation courses
Italian for law	Certificazione DILS-PG
The Italian of medicine and science	Corsi on-line di didattica dell'italiano a stranieri
The Italian of art and archeology	Preparazione DITALS
The Italian literature	ART COURSES
Courses about the Italian cinema	Painting and drawing courses in Italy
Cooking courses	Mosaic courses in Apulia
Wines Courses	Sculpture courses in Otranto
Courses for teachers of Italian	Ceramic and decoration courses in Lecce
Socrates/Comenius scholarships for foreign teachers
Italian for computer
Italian language course for theologians

ACCOMMODATION IN OTRANTO

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SPECIAL OFFERS

GUIDED TOURS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

ABOUT THE REGION AND THE TOWN

UTILITIES

Tina and Lionel fron London Lionel and I loved the school because:
- They have a nice, professional, dynamic team and they are very flexible, they can adapt their lessons to your needs.
- They are located in Otranto, it's a beautiful, very interesting and incredibly rich in history part of Italy…read more >>
Kitty from Singapore ...Vorrei ringraziarvi per tutto. Mi sono divertita ad Otranto. Veramente, é un paese bellissimo. Non dimentico mai come ospitale la gente locale lì... Anche mi sono piaciute tantissimo l'escursione organizzate da voi. Eravate così appassionati e le spiegazioni erano chiare e interessanti. Adesso, so un po' di piú dell'italia…read more >>
Madeleine from Swiss Mi é piaciuto molto il mio soggiorno a Otranto, il tipo di scuola mi conviene perfettamente. Per quanto riguarda la qualità dell'insegnamento, l'ho trovata excellente. E importante per me, ringraziare le mie professoresse. Le loro competenze pedagogiche, la loro pazienza e il loro entusiasmo mi hanno permesso d'imparare velocemente…read more >>
Maryse et Sylvianne from Belgium Chère Barbara, Nous voici bien rentrées de vacances, un peu mélancoliques d'avoir dû abandonner l'Italie. Nous avons été enchantées des cours que tu nous a donnés et entretenons notre italien en lisant dans la langue: nous ne voulons pas perdre les bénéfices obtenus…read more >>
Cynthia from California Dear Barbara: I am back in California and I enjoyed seeing the beautiful images on the CD you gave me. Thank you! The memories of those special places are etched onto my soul. Thanks again to you and Angelo for being so gracious and hospitable. I truly mean it when I say that we are friends…read more >>
Sylke from Germany ...ora e esattamente un anno fa, che io ho fatto un corso d'Italiano nella Scuola Porta d'Oriente. Nella questa settimana ho imperato molto di nuovo sulla regione e in Italiano. E per le conversazione nelle lezioni ho potuto pratticare la conoscenza nuova. Nella nostra regione si deve cercare a lungo per queste lezioni…read more >>
Annie from France ...Nostro gruppo ha avuto un'insegnante particolarmente competente che ha tenuto un corso tanto interessanto e vivo. Con la tua contribuzione entusiastica e grazie alle visite, ho possuto discoprire una regione tanto bella e particolare che non conoscevo, e la cultura affascinante della Grecia Salentina…read more >>
Anna from Sweden I have had a wonderful summer, I got to know a lot of new people and got a lot of new friends. I was staying two more weeks in Italy before I went home to Sweden, I went to St Benedetto del Tronto, Verona and Venezia, but I must say that I liked Otranto and Salento much much better. Thank you Barbara for everything. It has been the best summer in my life!read more >>
Lorenza from Austria ...É stato molto bello da voi; colma di ricordi, che adesso vanno raccontati e saranno ben conservati. Il vostro entusiasmo per la vostra terra, la possibilità di avvicinarsi e aprirsi di più a questa grazie alle vostre spiegazioni e gite, la cordialità della gente, la luce e il caldo - tutte esperienze bellissime…read more >>
Carla, David and family from Boston ...the experience unforgettable for people of all ages. Attending the Scuola Porta d'Oriente is the opportunity of a lifetime and the school has my highest recommendation on all counts. If you travel the world, you will not find a more enchanting place or…read more >>