Università degli Studi di Bergamo

The Italian language course offered by the university is exceedingly good. When I first came to Bergamo, I literally could not utter more than a few words (such as "hello" and "good morning", which does not serve much in an elaborate conversation). When the course finished, I was amazed by the knowledge I have gained thoughout these 5 months (even though I had very little contact to native students).

At Bergamo the foreign students seems to collect together and people from the same country tend to stay together and not speak much Italian which is difficult to escape from. Before arriving my Italian was poor but after a year it had greatly improved and was good. A student arriving with better Italian would have more success as they could find a part-time job at the beginning and make a circle of Italian friends-I wish I'd been able to do this!

There is an Italian language course for foreigners run by the university.

At the home University a small course which did not help that much, but in the country it is always easier to learn the language.

Excellent way of learning a new langauge, well recommended.

amazing!