Learn Italian and Live Florence
Understand and speak real Italian in a short time, discover and admire art and architecture beauties of Florence, get to know the rich Italian culture by living it, make new friends with Italian people and students from all over the world, have fun with our activities, taste the real Italian cuisine, live an unforgettable experience!
ISTITUTO IL DAVID – ITALIAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL – FLORENCE – OFFICIALLY AUTHORIZED BY THE ITALIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
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Non-beginner students who already have an A1 to C1 level can start any course for any level on any Monday.
Your Italian language school in the center of Florence.
The Istituto Il David is located in the center of Florence, a few steps from the square Piazza della Repubblica, on the third floor of a bourgeois building in one of the most prestigious and safe areas of the city, the area of world-wide famous fashion shops and financial services. It is officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education. It is a member of the association of Italian language schools Scuole Licet (Italian language, culture and tourism), it is associated with Eduitalia (association of linguistic services for foreign students in Italy), and it is part of the European Union's Erasmus program. The Italian language school was established in 1983, and for over 40 years it has carried out a wide variety of Italian language and culture courses throughout the year. READ MORE
The Italian language school is located in the heart of Florence, within walking distance of all the most important monuments and the central station.
The school was established in 1983, one of the first Italian language schools in Italy. The experience of over 40 years is a guarantee of professionalism and reliability.
Each year, dozens of students from over 80 countries attending our courses. That enables a remarkable intercultural exchange among students.
Friendly environment and flexible personal service that allows students to feel at home and make new friends with ease.
In addition to various Italian language courses, the school offers courses in Italian culture, art and craft courses, individual courses customized to any subject, summer courses.
Our all inclusive prices are among the best even if you consider that we provide also accommodations, all in the city center.
Discover all opportunities for study and holiday, Italian culture, laboratories and educational services. Choose your course.
Group Italian courses are the most popular courses. They are 2, 4, or 6 hours a day.
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Super intensive Italian courses are combined with group lessons and individual lessons.
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Individual Italian lessons are personalized programs for one or two students.
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The Italian courses for beginners are for those who must learn the Italian language from scratch.
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Online Italian courses in small groups with Zoom. Online Italian lessons individual and for couple with Skype.
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The summer courses are held in Florence and in other cities by the sea: Orbetello, Rimini, Otranto.
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The Italian culture courses are: Italian cuisine, art history, Italian fashion, business and work.
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The art and craft courses are composed of practical lessons: painting, drawing, sculpture, restoration, jewelery.
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Special Italian courses are for junior (14-17), senior (50+), school groups.
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Estoy muy contento con el curso. Ha cubierto todas las expectativas que tenía. Me gusta mucho el método utilizado. Las profesoras que me han impartido la lección son muy buenas. Lo recomiendo a todo el mundo. Gracias!!! 10 sobre 10
I liked the school position in town, the course was short due to work but still I learned more than what I thought I can in 7 days. Teachers were kind and polite always energetic and they don’t mind to explain once or more.
Les cours sont clairs. Les enseignantes sont à l’écoute. L’école est agréable et accueillante. Je le recommanderai à d’autres personnes. Merci pour tout. Parfait, Maria est vraiment sympathique, son appartement est confortable et pratique.
Mi piace molto questa scuola! Il corso è buono: molto chiaro e ho imparato molto. Gli insegnanti sono gentile e molto buono ad insegnare. Mi piace anche le attività extrascolastiche. Sono stata a questa scuola 2 e 3 anni fa e anche quest’anno era di nuovo un’esperienza ottima! Mi è piaciuto l’appartamento molto e la zona era ottima!
Ich habe mich sehr wohlgefühlt in dieser Schule. Die kleinen Klassen finde ich super. Die Lehrerinnen haben viel Geduld, waren sehr angenehm. Ich diese Schule weiter empfehlen. Gerne komme ich wieder einmal wieder. Herzlichen Dank an alle!
Founded in 1933, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is the oldest performing arts festival in Italy. Every spring, Florence’s Teatro del Maggio fills with opera, ballet, and orchestral concerts. For students of Italian, it is a concentrated encounter with the register that shaped the language’s written and spoken standards for centuries.
Language apps are convenient, always available, and structurally incapable of delivering real fluency. This article compares learning Italian via apps against intensive immersion in Florence across five specific mechanisms — pronunciation, listening, speaking confidence, grammar, and vocabulary retention — where the city decisively outperforms the screen.
Every Easter Sunday, Florence stages one of Italy’s most dramatic public rituals: a 14th-century ox cart loaded with fireworks is detonated in Piazza del Duomo. For anyone learning Italian in Florence, it is also one of the most instructive mornings of the year — live vocabulary, civic emotion, and Renaissance history firing at once.
Every Italian learner hits the same walls: verb conjugations that multiply across tenses and moods, nouns that demand a gender be memorised alongside them, a spoken register that bears little resemblance to the textbook, and a deep reluctance to actually open one’s mouth. This article addresses each difficulty honestly — without minimising it — and then explains in practical terms why studying Italian in Florence accelerates progress through each of these specific sticking points. The argument is not sentimental. Immersion in Florence provides near-constant comprehensible input, forces repeated low-stakes conversation, exposes learners to the phonetic standard closest to textbook Italian, and replaces abstract grammar anxiety with working knowledge built through use. A motivating and practical read for anyone weighing up a language course in Italy.
Florence: the right place to learn Italian in Italy!
Florence is the ideal place to learn Italian or to improve your knowledge of the Italian language for many reasons. It is the city where the Italian language was born and where it evolved. It is therefore here that the purest form of Italian is spoken with its distinctive and unique dialectal inflection.
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