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Siamo pronti! We'll start reading in Italian very soon, but only a few places available! Andiamo!

Upcoming Classes All upcoming classes will be listed here with all the details currently available. Often future classes will not be available to book until closer to the start date. If you would like to be updated on a class, please enter your email and the level you are interested in on the blue bar at the…

Italian Junior Cert and Leaving Cert class preparation, starting soon! Very limited availability!

Study Group (Gruppo Studio) I have been preparing students for their Italian Leaving Certificate for 11 years and it is very rewarding to see that all of them got very high marks and their ‘first choice’ study.  Unfortunately or fortunately, the demand is higher than the time I have in my hands. This is one of the reasons...

Andiamo!!

New Italian Beginners Online If you are interested, or if you have a friend or a relative interested in learning this beautiful and musical language for your next holiday or for fun, we are starting a New Beginners Online Class on the 23rd of March. Italian Beginners Classes have been running online for over two years and have....

Il Presepio – Italian traditional nativity scene Ecco qui il nostro presepio! Here is our presepio and this year, we really worked very hard! You probably already know about the Italian Christmas tradition called Presepio or Presepe. It is the nativity scene that we build at Christmas' time all over Italy. The first Presepio was ‘invented’ by ...

Italiano per Beginners, starting on the 9th of August, Online!

Buongiorno,

If you are interested, or if you have a friend or a relative interested in learning this beautiful and musical language for your next holiday or for fun, we are starting a New Beginners Online Class on the 9th of August.

Italian Beginners Classes have been running online for over a year and have been very successful: small groups, a conversational approach in a fun and relaxed environment are the key to their success. In fact, students speak Italian from their first day of class and we have a lot of fun, fantastico!
You can learn and have fun from everywhere in the world from the comfort of your favourite couch!

Full course description:
Fancy learning Italian? Whether you are planning a trip to Italy or you have decided to learn this beautiful, musical and colourful language for fun, let’s start with our Beginners course.

Practical conversation is included from our first class and, during our lessons, we will learn how to introduce ourselves, book a restaurant, ask for information and so much more. Grammar is immediately implemented in practical and useful conversational tasks, but it will also give you good foundations if you decide to progress with your Italian and join our next course.

Booking your place is essential, and remember that this course is for a small group in order to allow students to fully participate and get the best learning experience.
Therefore, I would recommend that you book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment

Details:
Beginning August 9th
Monday from 6.30 – 8.30 pm (Irish time)
Online classes (ZOOM)
10 lesson course: €130

Prontissimi! Andiamo!

Italian Beginners Online starting on August 9th Italian Beginners classes have been running online for over a year and have been very successful: small groups, a conversational approach in a fun and relax environment are the keys for this success. Finally you can learn and enjoy our classes from everywhere in the world from the comfort of your ho...

Italian Beginners, Starting on April 20th

Andiamo, here all the INFO www.italiancork.com/italian-beginners-italiancork/

Benvenuta Befana!

Arrivederci Natale!

Again this year, the 6th of January has arrived… the time to take down our presepio (nativity scene) and put all our little buildings, figurines and lights in our big box, and up they go to the attic.

Every year our creation gets new pieces… this year we added a few mountains and a well. New materials are always welcome and they can be provided by all sorts of things: new packaging from a delivery (all the houses in the picture), boxes (the mountains) or clay (the well). Some items such as grass and bushes are from professional shops such as Marks model in town. In theory they sell all that’s necessary for model trains, but their grass sheets and bushes are just perfect in our presepio.

Kevin and I always keep an eye out during the year for new materials that can spark new ideas for our presepio. It is a great tradition that has been passed down to me from my family. In fact, all the figures, the stable and the shooting star were the same I used to put in my own presepio as a little girl. It is great that my son enjoys this tradition… in fact he said that . And he became very good at it!

Of course, I didn’t invent the Presepio (or Presepe), but Francesco d’Assisi (Saint Frances d’Assisi) did: the first Presepio in the world took place in Greggio town in 1223 and it was a living nativity scene with real animals and people. And the ‘Presepio vivente’ (living nativity scene) is still a tradition in many small Italian towns at Christmas time.

Benvenuta Befana!
But, last night at midnight, I Re Magi (Three Wise Men) arrived to pay homage to Gesù Bambino in our Presepio and the Befana visited our house, too. In fact, today we found our stockings filled with small and lovely presents that the Befana brought for us. And tomorrow we’ll say goodbye to our presepio… It is really true what we say in Italy ‘L’Epifania tutte le feste porta via (the Epiphany takes away all the holidays)’, but this time kids are not back to school, yet… Mamma mia!

English translation: With broom and mask
With shawl and sanitizer
With sweets in the stocking
She brings to us all the hope
of taking off the mask
of throwing away the sanitizer
of smiling more than before
of the sun going up tomorrow
PS: If you’d like to know more about our unique Befana, just check it here www.italiancork.com/buon-natale-e-felice-anno-nuovo-a-tutti-but-let-not-forget-the-befana/

Arrivederci Natale!

Arrivederci Natale Again this year, the 6th of January has arrived… the time to take down our presepio (nativity scene) and put all our little buildings, figurines and lights in our big box, and up they go to the attic. Every year our creation gets new pieces… this year we added a few mountains and a well.…

Penso che fare il presepio sia una delle cose che mi piace di più del Natale... (I think that making the presepio is one of the things that I love the most about Christmas) said my son Kevin... and he's getting better and better every year😀

Questa notte arrivano i Re Magi da Gesù Bambino! Li vedete?
Tonight the Three Wise Men are coming to visit Baby Jesus... Can you see them?

Buongiorno, 2 Places left for our Online Beginners Class starting this evening at 6.30! Don't miss out!

New Italian Beginners Starting Soon How do our online classes work For our online classes, we are using a fabulous new video teaching tool (Zoom) that allows students to join and interact remotely. It even allows me to break the class into little breakout groups for conversation practice, allows me to go from group to group advising a...

Finalmente! Un sacco di tempo per imparare italiano;-) ed il corso è online... niente più scuse for our wonderful non Italian better halves ;-))

New Beginners class starting soon Would you or someone you know enjoy learning our beautiful language? Would you like to use this abundance of free time to learn a beautiful new language in a fun and relaxed environment? It’s a great way to keep your mind busy and enjoy learning in a small group of students who share the same inte...