Hello everybody! We are Fabienne and Sadik, two students from the vocational high school Flora Tristan in France. We have been staying in Italy for our work experience. We have been following Italian lessons and lessons about the History of art and costume in the Accademia del Giglio. During our first lesson, we talked about […]
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This famous palace of Florence is the first Renaissance building erected in the city in the early Renaissance period. It was commissioned by the lord of Florence Cosimo the Eldest to Michelozzo in 1444. It is said that the patriarch of the Medici family asked Brunelleschi, the architect of the Dome, to design the palace […] Last days and few spaces available to join our intensive Art workshop in Sketchbook in Florence and landscape offered by Accademia del Giglio. The workshop has a duration of 5 days, will be held from June 16th to 20th 2008 (Monday to Friday), for a total amount of 32 hours of tuition, and it includes […] Those students who who have been learning Italian for quite a long time may have acquired a rather sound knowledge of the grammar as well as of the vocabulary. However, most of these learners often experience several difficulties, among which one of the most common are anglicisms. What is an anglicism? A sort of a […] Ben Eshel is a Danish former student of Accademia del Giglio. He took a three-month Painting course including a Fresco workshop. In this video he talks about his experience in our school and in Florence. If you want to see more artworks by Ben you can visit his site. […] All over the world the main features of the stereotyped Italian do not normally correspond to those of a polite and well-mannered person: Italian people are rather “renowned” for speaking loudly, for trying to skip a queue, for driving erratically and so on. However they do have their own good and sometimes odd manners, which […] Italian false friends are those words whose meaning is misleading, that is they seem to have the same meaning as in English, but actually they do not. They always drive students crazy, especially beginners. Here are the most common Italian false friends: Libreria is not library but bookshop. Biblioteca is library. Camera is not camera […] It is a matter of fact that every year thousands of foreign students invade the main cities of Italy to study Italian. It may be less clear how many of these students actually learn the language along with the fun they usually have during their stay in our peninsula. Here are some imperatives you need […] Since 1995 Accademia del Giglio is a private school which is specifically aimed at helping international students to gain proficiency in the Italian language, understand the many aspects of Italian culture, as well as learn several drawing and painting techniques. Our school is accredited by: – The Italian Ministry of Education through […] It’s time for general elections in Italy, but for those who learn Italian abroad or are in Italy for their studies it is not easy to understand the Italian electoral system, and I must say this is not very clear event for most of the Italian voters. Speaking about the political system in our country […] |
 
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