Italian Pronunciation Course in Florence

Italian Language Pronunciation at Parola School

Parola Italian language school has set up an Italian pronunciation course in Florence so to provide foreign students with the language means to deal with a difficult task for a non-mother tongue speaker, that is to say pronouncing Italian language properly and proficiently. Parola does that through books and digital recordings.

The Italian pronunciation course at Parola is for those Italian language students who want to improve their language skills to an advanced aural and oral level while doing their Italian studies in Florence.

In Combination with Our Group Italian Language Courses

Our pronunciation course is in combination with our group Italian language courses. For individual lessons of pronunciation, the price is 35 euros per hour.

Price for a Pronunciation Course at the Italian Language School Parola in Florence

The price for an Italian language pronunciation course is 150 Euros (6 hours) with the following program:

• Two-week course (2 weeks, 6 hours of Italian pronunciation teaching)

• All taken in the afternoon or, if it is possible, at a specific time arranged individually

• Use of a Mac Program ( the lesson is entirely recorded for the student)

• CD or MP3 or MP4 for using the lesson recording as a reference after class

Contact us to ask for detailed information or to reserve a place for this course.

Who could be interested in an Italian pronunciation course?

• Foreign opera music students who have to fine tune and improve their Italian pronunciation.

• Foreign students studying in Italy: Erasmus students in particular

• People who think their Italian are preventing them to communicate effectively

• Foreigners who need to learn how to pronounce better for their job in Italy

• Those foreigners who have big problems at speaking Italian because their mother tongue is strongly different in the sound structure from the Italian language such as Japanese, Chinese and so forth

• Those foreigners who like a better pronunciation in Italian, just because it sounds great and they might be "happier" while living in Italy

Pronunciation for Opera Students, Study Abroad Students and Business Men

This dedicated course is particularly recommended to those students who study opera music in Italy, to all students who belong to Study Abroad Exchange Programs in Tuscany and business men.

Particularly, Erasmus students who are studying for some exams at the University of Florence may find it useful to improve their pronunciation through elements such as rhythm, prosody, sound length of consonants and vowels, Italian expressions and their sounds.

What Does a Pronunciation Course Consist Of?

This course consists of 2 weeks in which we teach the phonetic rules of Italian pronunciation and we do exercises with the voice: recording and repeating the words and the expressions. At the same time, the Italian pronunciation teacher might also fill out some grammar gaps that the student might encounter while learning Italian.

At the end of an Italian pronunciation course, students have learned rhythm, tone and intonation of Italian. They have learned how to model Italian expressions in a specific context as well.

This is is a dedicated Italian language course, it is usually taken on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in the afternoon, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Total 6 hours for 2 weeks):

• A school teacher converse with the student about various topics and corrects the pronunciation

• We cover all the open vowels and closed vowels of Italian

• The pronunciation course has readings of special texts for pronunciation by Corrado Veneziano

• The pronunciation course has readings of special texts for pronunciation by Marco Svolacchia

• Practice of open vowels and close vowels, of mute consonants and sounding consonants

• A school teacher covers the rhythm and the accent of dialogues by listening to tapes

• We use CD to hear and repeat song lyrics

• We show some movies to detect some Italian dialects

• We repeatedly record the pronunciation of the student in order to correct it

For Italian pronunciation course students, there are also 20 optional hours of cultural and recreational activities. These events are part of the school Parola free time activities and are run by the school Parola.

Dates of the Italian Pronunciation Course

For dates and individual Italian lessons of pronunciation, please contact the school secretary. If you wish to continue learning Italian at Parola, you can pick among our Italian language courses in Florence.

Contact For Further Information On Our Courses

For any further clarification concerning our Italian pronunciation courses, fell free to contact the Italian language school Parola directly.