Biblioteca delle Oblate
reading, listening, quiet conversation with a view of the Duomo
Florence
Florence is your trip.
Learn Italian while walking through the city. Walks, lessons and real conversations with a native Italian teacher, tailor-made, in the heart of Florence.
Write to me for your programThe experienceIt's not a course.
It's not a course.
It's not a tour.
It's an experience
You come out with me into the streets of Florence and learn Italian while living it. At the market, in a garden, in front of a fresco, sitting in a library.
The city becomes the context, the conversation becomes the lesson.
How it works
It doesn't replace lessons, it completes them.
Or it can stand alone, as an intensive immersion of one or more days.
How it works
A program built around you
Every experience is different because every person is different. Before organising anything, we talk: how much time you have in Florence, your level of Italian, what really interests you, art, food, history, everyday life.
From there we build a program together that alternates more structured lessons with outings across the city, always with spoken Italian as the common thread.
What it can include
- One-to-one lessons in beautiful city spaces (libraries, historic cafés, terraces)
- Themed outings: markets, gardens, churches, neighbourhoods
- Real conversations in context: ordering, asking, telling stories
- Tailor-made materials and handouts for every stop
- A written program with everything you need, ready before you arrive
It can last a day, a weekend, one or two weeks. It's up to you.
CASE STUDY
Jana in Florence: two weeks of living Italian
Jana arrived in Florence with good comprehension and a real desire to unlock her speaking. Together we built a two-week program alternating morning lessons with afternoon outings around the city.
Before · Jana understood almost everything but hesitated to speak. She was afraid of making mistakes, especially outside a controlled setting.
During · We started from her most frequent mistakes, using the city's spaces as teaching material. At the Biblioteca delle Oblate she learned to describe and argue a point. Hunting for the little wine windows, she told and listened to stories. At the Bardini Garden she talked about nature, memory, beauty. Every outing had a precise linguistic thread, it wasn't a stroll, it was a lesson in motion.
After · By the end of the two weeks, Jana ordered at the bar without hesitating, asked questions of the people we met in the street and had stopped translating in her head before answering. Italian had stopped being a subject. It had become a way of being in Florence.
"I never imagined learning a language could feel like this. I was walking through Florence and speaking, really speaking.", Jana
Florence
The places we use
Florence is full of places that are perfect for learning. I use some of them often because they work, for the atmosphere, for the people, for what they let you do with the language.
Bardini Garden and Rose Garden
sensory vocabulary, description, storytelling
Santo Spirito, San Frediano, Santa Croce
the Italian of everyday life, of the market, of the street
Historic cafés and osterie
ordering, interacting, listening to Florentines
Medici Chapels, San Lorenzo, San Marco
history, art, more refined vocabulary
Historic theatres and Florentine trattorie
atmosphere, storytelling, food and words that stay with you
The places change with the program and the season. What doesn't change is the approach: every spot has a precise linguistic purpose.
Aperitivo Italiano
Short on time? An aperitivo is enough.
You don't have to commit to a full tour or a whole week of lessons. We can meet for a single aperitivo and turn that hour into a tailor-made conversation, in a real Florentine bar, glass in hand.
It's the perfect way to try the method: one hour, the city as your classroom, and Italian that starts to feel natural right away.
- Learn to order at the bar, exactly like locals do
- Say your very first words of Italian, with someone by your side
- Chat about the topics we agree on together, art, travel, food, work
- Get honest feedback and a few phrases you'll actually reuse on your trip
This experience is for you if…
- You're in Florence for a few days and want to use them well, language included
- You already have a basic level and want to unlock your speaking
- You'd rather learn by doing than sitting at a desk
- You want to remember this trip not just for the places but for what you said, understood and lived