As you know or don't know sono andato all'Università di Perugia to study the Italian language, Italian music, Italian history etc. etc.

Which Italian school is best to learn Italian? Non so but wherever you go here are a few suggestions:

1. Don't hang around your fellow English speaking students molto.
Make Italian friends. How do you do this you might ask.
Well, go to a gym where Italians go. The one I went to in
Perugia had all Italian nationals. The gym owner did not
speak any English what so ever. I spoke Italian with everybody
in the gym and made friends while the rest of the students at
the Universita di Perugia complained that they could
not find any Italians to talk to.

2. Go to church in Italian.

3. Find the local chapter of AA. Sitting and listing to people tell their stories at an AA or drug
rehablitation meeting is even better than some of the classes at any universita.(I did this when learning Spanish anche.)

4. Go to movies in Italian.

5. Watch Italian TV.

6. Listen to Italian radio and CDs in Italian.

7. Go to the outskirts of town where only Italians are.
If you hang around the university you'll probably be
with mostly the other students.

8. If you take any day tours make sure it's with an Italian speaking guide.

9. If you see somebody hanging out of a window talk to them. I did and was
taken all over Perugia and other parts of Italy by them all the while speaking Italian.

10. Do your laundry at a laundry mat where Italians go.

11. Do your shopping where the Italians shop. Talk to the clerks
and any Italian customer that will listen to you.

12. Play soccer or basketball at the park with Italians.

13. Go to an Italian library. Ask if they have anybody who wants to learn English in return for them teaching you Italian.

14. Go to a marital arts school where Italians go.

15. Go to group meetings of Jehova Whitness's. They're nutty but they will speak to you in Italian and give you free Italian books and free Italian CDs.

16. Oh, use a hand held recorder and record your Italian classes and people around town. Tour guides, shop clerks, people you meet in the street etc. etc. I did.

17. Get an Italian book and just read out loud. It's just like speaking Italian. It is speaking Italian.

18. Total immersion is what you're after. Listen to Italian as much as you can. 24/7.

Keep an open mind. You'll learn more Italian.

You know these are the suggestions English speakers living in Italy should follow even if they're not attending school.
Markymark, Stai ascoltando? Chi molto pratica molto impara.

We just added a list of Italian Universities on the main website - I was thinking to add a section about schools in Italy

Universities in Italy | Italy

Total immersion is the way! Grazie!

great suggestions! thanks!

just checked out that list...it's great!! mille grazie!

Thanks Villa for summarizing it up in a useful list !!

all what you mentioned are very true, out of my personal experience in learning italian, I improved & enriched my language by hanging out with italians while was in Italy for a course in the language

thanx for the useful tips villa but what are "meetings of Jehova Whitness's" ?

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paolo I tried the link but didn't work, it says that the page doesn't exist I need help

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LOL!

Jehova Whitnees are these people that belong to sect of Christianity. They publish a lot of reglious literature in Italian and just about anyother language you can think of.

They're having a big conference in Rome in July 2009.

Jehovah's Witnesses will not fight or undertake war-related work in a time of national emergency. They are not pacifist, they
simply believe that they are already enlisted in the army of Jehovah(God) and cannot give allegiance to another power, that of the civil state.

Render unto Caesar…" is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels which reads in full,
“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21).

This phrase has become a widely quoted summary of the relationship between Christianity and secular authority.
The original message, coming in response to a question of whether it was lawful for Jews to pay taxes to Caesar,
gives rise to multiple possible interpretations about whether it is desirable for the Christian to submit to earthly
authority. Interpretations include the belief that it is good and appropriate to submit to the state when asked, that
spiritual demands supersede earthly demands but do not abolish them, or that the demands of the state are non-negotiable.
However others have also interpreted this saying as meaning that spiritual authority should maintain its independence
from temporal authority, which rules by force rather than moral law. Jehovah's Witnesses are always quoting this passage.

Violence against the Jehovah's Witnesses has been unparalleled in America since the attacks on the Mormons. Not since the
persecution of the Mormons years ago has any religious minority been so bitterly and generally attacked as members
of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Hitler killed Jehovah Witnesses right along with the Jews.

Jehovah's Witnesses : A Brief History of A Century of Religious ... A review of the history of the movement
now known as Jehovah's Witnesses finds ... or even to the "throwing of the Christians to the lions" in ancient
Rome. .... They are now the second largest religious denomination in Poland, Italy, ..... salute during World
War II, to which some Jehovah's Witnesses objected on ...
http://www.freeminds.org/organizatio...conflicts.html - Cached - Similar pages

thanx for the info

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