Grammar refresher – Online course

Course description: Italian language course Levels A1 – B1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Each day is dedicated to a topic and you can sing up separately for each meeting. In the lesson we correct the exercises, which were sent to each participant a few days in advance. The duration of each meeting is at least one hour and depends on the number of participants and the topic.
Course design: Dates can be booked separately

Rate: € 18,00 + VAT* per meeting. Forms of payment accepted: bank transfer or PayPal.
* This means that if you are resident in in the European Union the rate is € 18,00 + 19%, that is € 21,42. On the other hand, if you are resident in other countries, you do not have the VAT supplement.
Learning material: included in the price and made available as a PDF

Registration: Please send us your application (non-binding request) for the selected topics and transfer the corresponding sum at least three days before the respective meetings.

Next Topics – Start at 14 a.m. (Central Europe Time)

Date	Topic	Level
30.06.2023	Articoli e aggettivi	A1
07.07.2023	Interrogativi e presente indicativo	A1
14.07.2023	Esserci, preposizioni, verbi modali e irregolari	A1
21.07.2023	Avverbi di frequenza, possessivi e dimostrativi	A1
28.07.2023	Verbi riflessivi, preposizioni, CI, NE	A2
04.08.2023	Stare + gerundio, passato prossimo, comparativi	A2
11.08.2023	Pronomi diretti, NE, imperfetto, futuro	A2
18.08.2023	Pronomi indiretti, condizionale, imperativo, passato prossimo / imperfetto	A2

Preparation for the CELI language certificate – Online course

Course description: 12 hours. The course starts one month before the exam and it is based on authentic exam tasks
Course design: 4 weeks, 3 hours a week (1 hour = 60 minutes)
Rate: € 200,00 + VAT* Forms of payment accepted: bank transfer or PayPal.
* This means that if you are resident in in the European Union the rate is € 200,00 + 19%, that is € 238,00. On the other hand, if you are resident in other countries, you do not have the VAT supplement.
Learning material: included in the price and made available as a PDF

Registration: Send us your application (non-binding request). Registration for these Italian language courses should be done by e-mail at least one week before the course starts.

Next preparatory courses

Course type	Start on	Time (CET)	Day	Hours	Rate
CELI 2 – B1	15.05.2023	15 – 16.30	Mon + Thu	12	€ 200,00 + VAT*
CELI 3 – B2	16.05.2023	15 – 16.30	Tue + Wed	12	€ 200,00 + VAT*

Conversational Italian – Online course

Course description: 10 hours. We talk about various topics, such as literature, society, or current events, in agreement with the participants. Suitable from level B2.
Course design: 7 weeks, one and a half hours a week (1 hour = 60 minutes)
Rate: € 160,00 + VAT* Forms of payment accepted: bank transfer or PayPal.
* This means that if you are resident in in the European Union the rate is € 160,00 + 19%, that is € 190,40. On the other hand, if you are resident in other countries, you do not have the VAT supplement.
Learning material: included in price, provided as pdf

Registration: Send us your application (non-binding request). Registration for these Italian language courses should be done by e-mail at least one week before the course starts.

The next conversation course starts on Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 16 p.m. After that, it always takes place on Fridays at the same time.

Puntolingua introduces itself

Speaking is a natural human attitude, but when it is used as a learning strategy, there are a few things to keep in mind, for example to invite the student to express their opinions directly in the target language, instead of using the time available to talk “about the target language”. It seems easy, but to do this you need to know various teaching methods. Unfortunately, today we have the impression that teaching a language with new technologies is very easy. Everyone at home has a computer and a webcam, but technology, even if very useful, is not enough.

With Puntolingua’s Italian language courses (both in groups and in individual lessons) the student is guided through his individual learning process and to do this the teacher must have skills in the field of foreign language learning. For this reason, by Puntolingua we organize a training course in language teaching and the teachers who have been working with us for the longest time have a certification in teaching Italian to foreigners. Our teachers live in Berlin or they only lived in Berlin for a certain period during which they followed our training and then returned to Italy.

Other online services for learning Italian

In addition to the Italian language courses Puntolingua also offers the opportunity to learn Italian individually:

• Individual Italian lessons (A1 – C2 level)
• One-to-one Italian conversation (from B1 level)
• Free online activities, divided in activities for beginners and for the intermediate level
• Refresh course in Italian on Smartphone

Intercomprehension courses

Why learn Italian?

• Some people, especially in Europe, learn Italian at least at a basic level to be more comfortable during their holidays in Italy.
• In some European schools, Italian is studied as a second language.
• Some European university students choose Italy for their period of study or internship abroad (Erasmus program).
• Anyone who wants to move to Italy for work needs to learn Italian.
• There are also those who want to learn Italian for family reasons, to resume the language of their ancestors (this is the case of foreigners with Italian origin) or because they are married to an Italian.
• Furthermore, there are many people in the world who love the Italian language, perhaps because of its sound, perhaps because they associate images of the joy of life and harmony of forms (in the figurative arts or in music) with this language, or perhaps who knows … Italians often struggle to understand it, because for them Italian is normal.

Various curiosities, questions from the web:

Puntolingua recommends Italian language courses at schools associated with ASILS

To learn a language it is important to be exposed to the language as much as possible. So to learn Italian it is not enough to take an italian language course, but also spend as much time as possible listening, reading, writing, conversing in Italian.

It depends on the level you want to reach. An A1 level course lasts 30-40 hours.

Here are some links to web pages with interesting content to help you during or after a Italian language course:

• Loescher Editore (free activities, videos and readings);
• Alma Edizioni (free activities, videos and readings);