Barbara Bassi

Online Italian Classes is a small online school of Italian for adult learners who come from all over the world. The school mission is not only linguistic, but also cultural: our teachers are native Italian speakers and trained to engage and involve students with the most authentic aspects of the Italian culture in order to uncover the most common stereotypes. The chore business is the website , where users can start their journey into the Italian culture by reading and listening to the blog/podcast called ‘Italian Stories In Italian’, that has a vocabulary IT-EN to support their comprehension. The website is also an e-commerce platform through which users can book Individual, live and 100% customised courses with a professional teacher and have the lessons at the time and dates that better suit them. We also offer a catalog of group courses at affordable prices and in small groups (3-5 participants) who cover different levels and different cultural topics, by following the CLIL learning methodology (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The added value that the company offers to customers is the opportunity to feel part of a community, despite the distance. For this reason, we also organise internal projects dedicated to our students such as the writing contest in Italian.