Italian Courses | Learn Italian in London with UIC School

LEARN Italian?
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The fascination we have with Italy - the culture, the food and the country make learning this wonderful language such a great idea. As with the other languages we teach, our students have all sorts of different reasons for wanting to learn Italian – so whether it’s business or holidays, or just an interest in the fantastically diverse culture that Italy offers it is always going to be a popular choice. Travelling to Italy and visiting some of the world’s great cities – Rome, Florence, Milan - and of course once there dipping into whichever part of the culture you find interesting – food, fashion, football, ice-cream is much easier and give a much more rewarding experience if you know some of the local language.

Success in Italian - whether for holiday or work - follows the carefully designed structure with a balance of speaking, writing, reading and listening in class. Teachers use published course books and relevant and up-to-date materials. Our aim is for you to be using the language as quickly and easily as possible; we achieve this through our communicative teaching approach. We make the language come alive - so even studying grammar is interesting and communicative. Our teachers will give you regular homework.

The minimum age for our Foreign Language courses is 17 unless otherwise notified.

Group classes have a maximum of 14 students. Programmes run consecutively so there is the opportunity for continuous training, allowing you to progress and move up to a higher level once a course is finished.

Deciding where to learn Italian is not necessarily easy, but we are one of the biggest Language Schools in London and have many many years experience. You can call us anytime between 9am and 8pm.

We can also help you find schools in Italy if you have the time to travel.

Learn Italian in LONDON

Courses are designed to follow the Council of Europe syllabus. This is essentially a list of different things you should be able to do in the language, and by looking at the table below you can get an idea of how long it might take you. The focus in all languages we teach is to get you using the language. If you would like to have more detailed information please get in touch. The Italian language syllabus is based on the ‘Espresso’ series of books.

Council of Europe Level	Group level at UIC	Length of Course	Summary of what will be covered in the course
A1	Beginner	20 hours	Greetings and Introductions, Personal information, Health, Numbers and Prices, Dealing with Restaurant. Present tenses, articles, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives.
	Beginner Plus	20 hours	Talking about spare time, expressing preference, agreeing / disagreeing, hotel rooms, describing where you live, family & friends.
	Elementary	20 hours	Past events, holidays, shopping, habits, routines, wishes, recipes. Past tenses, reflexives, superlatives, comparatives.
A2	Pre Intermediate	20 hours	Asking for information, expressing surprise, sympathy, needs, opinions. Health, sports, requests, intentions. Imperfect and Perfect tenses, Imperatives.
	Low Intermediate A	20 hours	Talking about childhood, past habits, opinion about something, suppositions, Making, accepting and refusing proposals giving reasons for it, appointments, booking tickets by phone, Past, Present Perfect, conditional, future forms, pronouns +infinitive.
	Low Intermediate B	20 hours	Talking about future events, Talking about work, Understanding job advertisements, Writing a Curriculum Vitae and a covering letter, Describing a house, Apologizing, Present subjunctive, Verbs with direct object pronouns and indirect object pronouns.
B1	Intermediate A	20 hours	Expressing disappointment and resignation, Asking for permission/giving permission, Expressing agreement and disagreement, Asking for help, Complaining, Stating purpose, Italian cities and regions,Trapassato prossimo, Negative prefix in-, Past subjunctive.
	Intermediate B	20 hours	Giving explanations, Offering help, Expressing a condition, Giving opinions, Talking about books and newspapers articles, Festivals and celebrations, Congiuntivo imperfetto, Indirect speech with present tense, Past conditional.
	Intermediate C	20 hours	Expressing disappointment and regret, Making a request, Expressing conditions and consequences, Discovering Italy, Congiuntivo trapassato, Use of subjunctive with indefinite pronouns, Relative pronouns il cui/la cui/i cui/le cui, Use of subjunctive with indefinite pronouns.
B2	Upper Intermediate A	20 hours	For more details about higher levels please contact us

We teach Italian at several different levels - from Complete Beginners up to Advanced. Our levels progress as follows:

Beginner

Elementary

Pre Intermediate

Low Intermediate

Intermediate

Upper Intermediate

Advanced

We think it is very important that you enrol on the right class. If you are not a complete beginner, we will need to find out your level. Our online test will help to establish your level. We would also like to speak to you in Italian to make sure, as our lessons focus in communicating. Unless you are a Beginner, you can come to try one of our lessons.

Any questions, or if you would just like to chat about the levels or what goes on in the class, please get in touch.

Learning a language is in many ways just like learning anything, it is best done if you have a teacher who has the experience, skills and resources to help you. At UIC we have the experience to help you achieve your goals - whether you want Italian for a holiday or for professional reasons we can help you get there.

UIC is a language school in the centre of London - we currently teach 9 different languages including English to around 500 people a week. We are accredited by the British Council and ISI (the private school equivalent of OFSTED) and are one of a very few schools - perhaps the only private language school - who have their Foreign Language teaching inspected. We are also an award winning school, we are the only language school in the world to have won both of the major awards - the STAR Language School in Europe (voted on by travel agents worldwide) and the British Council ELTon award for innovation in English Language Teaching.

So, great location, award winning, accredited and inspected and we directly employ and manage not only all the teachers but also the buildings and the curriculum.

UIC is London's Language School