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The Italian Language School Leonardo da Vinci proposes the "Academic School Year" program for the year 2008: a special course for people who want to live in Italy and learn the Italian language and culture.
The "Academic School Year" is a 32 weeks language and cultural course for students who wish to experience living and studying in Italy.
The course consists in 480 lessons of a standard language course, 80 lessons of exam preparation and you can choose two Italian language diplomas between: DELI-A2, DILI-B1, DILS-B1, DILS/DILI-B2, DALI-C1 (elementary, intermediate and/or advanced levels).
To the other side the Academic part consists in 80 lessons of Italian Civilisation and History, Art History, Business Italian, History of Italian and Fashion Design.
Finally there are 10 hours of tutoring for the final thesis which will be discussed and evaluated.
So as you can see the "Academic school year" is not a classic language course but it combines language courses with Italian culture classes at the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci but its syllabus also includes fundamental elements of level C2 of the European Language Portfolio (CEF).
Lessons are only taught in Italian from the very beginning. At the end of the course, we ask you to write a final dissertation on a topic related to Italian culture (art, history and business Italian).
The duration of the whole stay is 32 weeks and you can also choose between four of the most beautiful cities in Italy: Rome, Florence, Siena and Milan.
From a qualitative point of view the Scuola Leonardo is one of the leading language school in Italy and was among the first institution in teaching Italian as second language officially authorized and regulated by the Italian Ministry of Education.
It is member of FIYTO (Federation of International Youth Travel Organizations) and the European Federation of Schools, which is an advisory branch of UNESCO. It is also a founding member of AIL (Italian Language Academy) and of ASILS (Association of Schools for Italian as Second Language).

So don't miss this opportunity: to spend a long time in Italy by learning and improving your knowledge of Italian culture and language.

Starting dates for the Academic School Year Course in Italy:
from 07 January 2008 to 14 August 2008
from 05 May 2008 to 12 December 2008
from 22 September 2008 to 22 May 2009 (including three weeks of Christmas Holidays where no courses are held).

For more information: http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/gap-year-in-italy.php