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Where to study Italian – it is a very easy question with very simple answer – in the motherland of this language – in Italy.
If you are going to live, to work, to do business or want to travel often or something else in Italy, knowledge of Italian language will help you a lot. Many Italians speak only Italian language. If they understand that a foreigner speaks Italian language they can become very chatty. They do not expect that a foreigner may speak their language and usually they are quite tolerant of language inaccuracy and very excited to speak more to compensate for your relative dumbness. Such relations make for an encouraging microclimate for the language learner.
Italy (Italian Republic officially), is a country situated on the Sicily and Sardinia (these are two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea), and in part in Southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula and in part on the European Continent. In the North Italy shares Alpine boundary with Switzerland, France, Slovenia and Austria. There is independent exclave Campione d'Italia in Switzerland. San Marino Republic and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula. Territory of Italy is 301,338 km? in the temperate seasonal climate. Italy occupies the 6th place as the most populous countries in Europe and the twentieth third place as the most populous countries of the world.
The territory that is Italy today has been the Europeans’ cultures and peoples cradle, such as the Etruscans and the Romans. Rome (Italy's capital) was the capital of the Roman Empire and was the political center of Western civilization for centuries. After the Roman’s Empire decline, Italy was invaded and influenced by foreigners such as Germanic tribes (Ostrogoths and Lombards), Normans and after, the Byzantines.
Than Italy became the birthplace of the Renaissance, a very productive intellectual progress that proved to be substantial in determining the following line of European thought.
Mostly because of Italian after-Roman history, Italy was divided into many city-states and kingdoms (such as the duchy of Milan or the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Sardinia), but in 1861was unified. In the end of nineteenth century, through World War I, and II, Italy owned a colonial empire, which extended its law to Libya, Italian Somaliland, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rhodes, the Dodecanese, Albania, and Tianjin concession in China.
Today’s Italy is a democratic republic and occupies the 18th place among the most developed economics in the world, with the ninth top quality of life index ranking. Italy takes the important place in cultural, military, and political affairs. Italy is a founding member of the NATO (more than that, Italy shares NATO's nuclear weapons) and of the EU (European Union). Italy is a current participator of the G20, G8, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), the WTO (World Trade Organization) and the Council of Europe. There are a lot of headquarters of such worldwide organizations as WFP (World Food Program), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), the NATO Defense College and Global Forum in the Rome.
Italy is the fifth most visited country in the world, with more than 43.7 million foreign arrivals, and possesses an old tradition of superiority in all the sciences and arts, together with the detail that Italy has the world's record quantity of UNESCO World Inheritance Sites (about sixty percents of the world's art values were found in Italy).
Many centuries, Italy created the most outstanding cultural works in the western canon, such as frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and the neo-realist films of Vittorio De Sica, “The Courtier” of Balthazar Castiglione and Italo Calvino’s post-modernist novels.
Knowledge of the Italian language shows the way to one of the richest cultural background of West and to one of the most vital modern societies in Europe.
The trip to study Italian language in Italy can change your life!
Shortly about Italy
Capital and the largest city of Italy - Rome
Official language - Italian
State structure - Parliamentary republic
Legislature - Parliament
Lower House - Chamber of Deputies
Upper House - Republic Senate
Dates of formations:
Unification of Italy -17.03.1861
Republic- 02.06.1946
Accession to EU– 25. 03.1957 (founding member)
Population - 60,231,214 (estimated in 2009)
Area - 301,338 km2
Currency - Euro (€) (EUR)
Time zone - CET (UTC+1), Summer (DST) - CEST (UTC+2)
Drives - on the right
Internet TLD - .it3, .eu
Calling code – 394 (Swiss code +41 for calls to Campione d'Italia)
Italian consulate or embassy in your country http://www.esteri.it
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