Learn Italian at Linguaviva Language School in Florence

If you want to learn Italian at Linguaviva Language School in Florence, AEI Study Abroad Agency offers free counseling and placement services for Italian courses!

Contact us to know the cost of your language trip, including school registration, Italian course, course material, airport reception service, international insurance and accommodation.

Learn Italian in Florence Italy

The Language School

LINGUAVIVA since 1976 has been offering international students the opportunity to study Italian in Florence, to know our culture and to experience Italian life.
The school is centrally located, in a quiet street next to the main railway station.
The Italian language courses organized by Linguaviva are attended by international students from more than 60 different countries, thus creating a very stimulating international atmosphere.
Linguaviva offers students the possibility to study in Italian language and to communicate in this international context.
Study Italian in Florence, in the heart of the Italian language: the best way to learn it.

Key features:

Three storeys of a 19th century building
17 comfortable, well-equipped and air conditioned classrooms where you will learn Italian language, provided with audio and video equipment
Small garden
Free internet access
Student age +16
Excellent social activities programme
High-quality accommodation walking distance of the school
Minutes walk to the historic centre of Florence

The Italian Courses

General Italian

Standard Italian Language Course

20 lessons per week.

Work is in a small group and covers all aspects of the language with a particular emphasis on developing communicative skills in speaking and writing. Each group is taught by two teachers a day in order to ensure more varied and stimulating instruction. As no translation is used in the classroom you will be quickly able to understand and express yourself in Italian. Each level can be completed in 4 weeks. At the end of each course after successful completion of a test you can progress to the next level.

Intensive Italian Language Course

30 lessons per week.

Super-Intensive Italian

20 group lessons + 10 individual lessons per week.

Suitable for students who wish to study intensively and get a well-rounded insight into the language and country. This course comprises 20 group lessons per week as well as 10 individual lessons.

One-to-One Italian

20, 30 or 40 individual lessons per week.

Participants will be working with two or more teachers, each with a special programme suited to the participant’s needs. Particularly suited to professionals and executives, this course is tailored to meet the needs of the participants with special requirements in specific language areas.

Special Italian Courses

Art History in Italian

6 lessons per week.

This course is offered in the afternoon throughout the year, combined with a Standard Course in the morning. The Programme focuses on Florentine Renaissance and foresees visits to museums. The course is held in Italian.

Preparatory for University

20 lessons per week.

The course curriculum is tailored to the fields the students plan to study at the University and to the exams they need to take to be admitted to a particular department. Emphasis is therefore on the preparation in those subjects required by the departments that apply selective entry. We prepare students for the Entrance Examination in Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineering.

Special Italian Programs

Italian Language Course + Cooking

20 + 6 lessons per week.

The special combination of Italian Language and Cooking courses, offers international students a unique opportunity to better understand Italian culture.
Practical cooking classes are held in Italian language and are for non-professional people. The focus is on Italian culinary and wine traditions, after the preparation of the dishes students will appreciate the resulting performance.
Our Italian cooking school will be a fantastic experience to enter the marvellous world of our tastes and flavours.

Italian Language Course + Arts, Design, Jewellery & Photography

20 + 10 lessons per week.

The school offers with its Art School Partner an intensive short programme in Italian language and design, fine arts & photography. The programme combines Italian tuition in the morning with one of the many art and design courses in the afternoon.
To attend this programme an elementary level of Italian is required.