THE SCHOOL · ACCADEMIA DI ITALIANO
A family-run Italian school. Part of a 50-year tradition.
Ciao! Accademia di Italiano was founded in Milan in 2003 by Pinuccia Cipullo and Sergio Serra, with one quiet ambition: to share the Italian language and culture with adults from around the world, with the same care you would give to a friend learning the language at your kitchen table. We are part of the Unicollege group, active in Italian language teaching since 1975 — half a century of work with international students. Today we have four campuses across Italy — Milan, Florence, Mantua and Turin — but we are still, in every meaningful way, a family.
Our mission is to welcome you, to teach you Italian properly, and to help you live like an Italian for as long as you stay with us. We want you to leave Italy not only with a certificate, but with the language really in your hands - to read a newspaper, to argue at the market, to follow a film without subtitles, to dance through an aperitivo with people you have just met.
01 Explore the school
Explore the school
Each link below opens a focused page. Pick the topic your curiosity (or your study-abroad office) is asking about right now.
Our method
Communicative, direct, immersion-from-day-one. Italian in the classroom from minute one - even for absolute beginners. Small groups, level testing every four weeks.
Student services
Help desk · housing · visa & residence permit · welcome kit · free Wi-Fi · university guidance · weekly free-time programme. Everything beyond the classroom.
Our teachers
Native Italian speakers with humanities degrees and Italian-L2 specialisations. Many have been with us for over a decade. Coordinated by a Head of Studies.
Language levels
Six CEFR levels (A1 → C2) broken into careful sub-levels. Beginner cohorts on fixed dates; A2 → C2 enrol any Monday. Documented placement, documented progression.
Accreditations & recognition
Part of Unicollege SSML, a MUR-accredited Italian Higher Institute. CSN Sweden approved since 2007. Study-visa eligible long-term courses. Honest about what we are and what we are not.
02 Student stories
Student stories
Voices from our classrooms - interviews with current students about life at Accademia di Italiano, the visa pathway, and what they like about us.
03 Life on campus
Real moments from our Instagram - classrooms, walking tours of Florence, gelato runs, pizza nights, faculty in conversation with students. Follow @unicollegessml for daily life from inside the school.
04 Write to us
Write to us - we will help you find your Italian.
Tell us your starting level (or "none" - we love absolute beginners), your dates, and what you would like to achieve in Italian. We respond with a concrete, warm plan - usually within one working day. Our Italian language courses will never leave you without words.
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