Supplementary Courses at Parola Italian School

Parola Italian School Additional Classes in Florence

The Italian language school Parola provides its students with a good variety of supplementary courses in Florence. Our Italian institute covers most of the relevant topics of Italian culture such as Italian society, Italian politics, art in Italy or Italian food and wine.

Upon request, Parola school teaches subjects such as Italian fashion, Italian music, opera or politics.

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Contact us to ask for further information on supplementary lessons at our headquarters in Florence.

Our Most Requested Supplementary Courses in Florence

Parola school has set up supplementary courses for students who want study Italian drawing techniques, Italian cuisine or learn about wine through a wine tasting in Florence. The following are the most requested extra-curricular lessons:

Drawing Technique Course

Italian Cooking

Ballet Exercise Lessons

Art Courses in Florence

Tuscan Wines

Italian pronunciation

Italian with English

The most enchanting places in Tuscany

Contemporary Italian History

History of Florence

Italian Geography

Note: our additional program in Florence can be done with Italian language classes or taught separately from our language courses. The student can contact our office in Florence for detailed information on our extracurricular programs in Florence.

From Literature to Art Courses

These interesting supplementary courses are for students who have particular interests and want to study in depth the topics in the afternoon sessions of the school Parola.

These lessons go into more depth and detail of certain areas of the Italian culture, for example: art History, Italian literature, and Introduction to food and wine-making but also Italian cuisine and Italian pronunciation.

A participant can also decide to take a single supplementary class without doing any Italian language course at the school, just to enjoy and improve his or her knowledge of Italian culture.

Drawing Technique Course (En Plein Air and Indoor Sessions)

Florence is the city of art, therefore it is natural to offer a hands-on drawing course in Florence. Students will learn how to study and compose basic drawings of the human body, which is the most challenging of all artistic subjects. In this supplementary course, students will practice drawing both En Plein Air to improve their artistic skills - using locations such as Piazzale Michelangelo, Ponte Vecchio and Florentine Piazzas - and in class to focus on drawing techniques.

Italian Pronunciation

This Italian pronunciation course is for those students who want to improve their spoken Italian. It covers accent, rhythm, diction and the rules of Italian phonetics.

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Humanities Lectures in Florence

The school has courses in humanities. That is to complete the understanding of the Italian language, which is strongly and deeply connected with history, social changes and culture.

Italian Literature

We cover the most significant periods of the Italian literature with special emphasis on the fourteenth (Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca) and the twentieth century (Moravia, Sciascia, Pasolini, Calvino, Bassani). On top of that, we provide courses on contemporary authors (Niccolo Ammanniti, Alessandro Baricco, Antonio Tabucchi, Umberto Eco).

History of Italian language

The Italian language and sociocultural aspects has gone go hand-in-hand each effecting the other for centuries. Parola Italian school proposes an Italian language history course to encourage and promote not only this Ianguage but also the most profound social and historical aspects that formed it. A study of Italian both on a day to day basis - idioms and dialects - and at a more academic and historical level.

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Music Courses in Florence

The school Parola is affiliated with a school of Music in Florence, which is open all year round. That is for students who are particularly interested in the Italian music world, specifically in Opera music.

School participants can enjoy and learn Opera lyrics or folk music words while studying the Italian language and some topics about Italian music.

A course on the history of opera from its origins to the present. The origin of opera, Monteverdi. The development of opera in Italy during the XVII century. Opera seria and Opera buffa. The Neapolitan school. Mozart's Italian operas. Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini. Modern trends of the Italian opera music.

The History of Italian Song

The course reviews the milestones in Italian songs, drawing a sociopolitical profile of the country with a course that involves both classical opera and folk songs of the XX century to the present .

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Other Extra-courses at the School Parola in Florence

History of the Italian Cinema

The history of Italian society as seen through the fascinating medium of the greatest films of celebrated directors such as De Sica, Visconti, Fellini. Wide scale use of audiovisual materials. Every week, the school shows an Italian movie for all the participants.

Contemporary Italian History

The course covers the following topics: Fascism, World War II, the Post-War Period, the birth of the Republic, the Fifties, Italian Political Parties, Southern Italy, the Mafia, the crisis in the traditional political parties, the Kickback Scandals, the Second Republic, Italy today.

History of Florence

This course is of particular interest for those who wish to know more about the history and secret life of the great families who ruled Florence (the Medicis, for example). In our field trips, the school Parola does guided tours for free time activities in Florence but also take students to some of the most interesting art cities of Tuscany such as Lucca, Siena and Pistoia.

Italian Geography

An overview of the peninsula, from the Alps to Sicily, highlighting the physical features of the country, along with the customs and traditions of its regions. It is a very interesting and explanatory course to learn how to understand the reasons why Italy is a such a diversified country: so different and yet very fascinating.

The Most Enchanting Places in Tuscany

Practical and entertaining suggestions for organizing weekend sightseeing including the main historical and artistic centers (Siena, Pisa, Lucca), Romanesque country churches (Gropina, Badia a Isola), the great abbeys (San Galgano and Sant'Antimo) and the famous walled medieval towns (Pienza, Montalcino, Volterra, San Gimignano). Timetables for public transportation and helpful hints on how to get around are also provided. The Italian language school Parola also combines field trips with special meals in trattorias or genuine Italian restaurants, wine tasting and, when it is possible, with special events: such as little concerts or Italian literature readings.

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Italian Cooking

From antipasto to tasty Italian first courses (including how to make pasta: tortellini, lasagne, ravioli, gnocchi, etc.) meat and fish dishes and dessert. The school Parola has also a dedicated Italian cooking course for those participants who love Italian cuisine and, at the same time, want to learn the Italian language.

Tuscan Wines

The course covers grape growing, harvesting and wine making as well as wine tasting (included in the course fee) in order to learn how to recognize wines and their special features.

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Business Correspondence

Business letters, essentials for accounting and secretarial work, exercise in phone conversations and all that a secretary needs to know to be able to work in an Italian office.

The Language of Tourism

Basic training for those who work or plan on working in the tourist industry (hotels, restaurants, travel agencies). The course allows the student to master specific technical terminology.

Active Language

A course of communication activities for fluency practice. Drama, drawing, movement, writing, music, games will involve the whole personality of the learner on communicative tasks and help to express feelings and opinions.

Diction for Opera Singers

Under professional guidance, students will be able to correct errors in diction and obtain useful suggestions on how to interpret their roles. You can also see our pronunciation course which is held at Parola.

Contact Parola Italian School

For more detailed information regarding our supplementary courses in Florence, please, feel free to contact the office of the school Parola.

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