Barak Ben-Gal

Review of Italiaidea Scuola di Italiano

What a great school! By design, I had a combinati...

What a great school! By design, I had a combination of several teachers and while they all had different styles they were all great and put good emphasis on not only grammar but also practice in speaking, listening to recorded dialogues (which for me is the hardest - thank you for making me do this!), and writing. In addition to the teachers, I must also compliment the administration: not only are they incredibly responsive and get back to you immediately with answers (which is not a given here in Italy), but they are also very supportive. For example, when tourist season ended and my advanced class came down below the minimum size of 4 students, they allowed us to keep going at the same cost and schedule with only 2 students for several weeks before we transitioned to a different schedule. Whenever I paid by-the-day rates, if I was absent a particular day they just credited me the amount (or in my case, let me use the paid day for the following week). And finally, when my daughter's school was closed for a strike they had no problem with my 6-yr-old daughter coming along for class - she even got to be the teacher's assistant (and ever since then keeps asking her own teacher when the next strike is so that she can come with me to Italidea again....). Highly recommended!