Italian class

It all starts with a coffee!
 It's not a joke: every Italian class (for adults) starts at eight in the morning and the students take turn to make the coffe for the others. It's a ritual that gives us the possibility to use everyday language.
"Do you want a coffee?"
"Sugar?" "Yes, please/ No, thanks."
"How many spoons?"...
We meet twice a week, the lessons are customized and adapted to the needs of the students. They are alpine guides, so we talk a lot about mountains and equipment.
They do study grammar as well, but the main goal is to communicate, so they have homework once a week.

After every lesson students received on viber the recording of the new words and the new expressions they have learnt in the morning.

Learning a new language can be difficoult, expecially if you do not have time to study: but everyone has to move around the city, has to do houseworks...and  all those activities can be done listening!
If you listen to what you have learnt during the lesson it's so easy to memorize everything!
We often play game together, playing offers the occasion to talk, and in this class the only language spoken is Italian!
So... students are going to learn even if they do not want!

Keep your language

Speaking two languages ​​offers our brain the possibility of thinking in different ways. Whatever the languages are, knowing more than one obliges the memory to build a larger archive, richer than when only one is spoken. The idioms and habits related to the different languages ​​are expressions of different ways of being and different expressions of the self: knowing more than one language offers different possibilities of expression. When you live abroad you run the risk of losing the habits of the country of origin, among these there is also the language. Often children speak the language they speak at school and it is easy to make English the language of the family, even if one of the spouses is Italian. 

This is why the "Italian play group" was born, open to all children from three to five years old who have Italian father or mother. It is an informal moment managed on a voluntary basis organized by an Italian teacher but supported by all the participating families. There are four children and we meet every week at the home of one of the participants. 

he activities and games are mainly in the garden and are the same activities and games of the Italian kindergarten.

We sing songs, we play with recycled materials, we listen to stories,

 we draw and we  have snacks together:

 everything is done always speaking in Italian.