Italian language schools in Puglia
3 selected schools in Puglia, across 3 towns. Compare them on the three numbers that decide what a course is really worth: real hours per week, how many people are in the room, and how long a lesson actually lasts.
Puglia at a glance
The towns where you can study in Puglia: the streets you'll walk every morning and the places where you'll need real Italian.
Where the schools are
schools
The 3 schools in Puglia
| School | Town | Real hours a week | Students per class | Lesson length | Google reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trulli Italian School | Alberobello | 18 hours 20 | max 6 | 55 min | — |
| Punto e Virgola | Grottaglie | — | — | — | — |
| Porta d'Oriente | Otranto | 16 hours 40 | max 8 | 50 min | — |
The towns
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Studying Italian in Apulia
Apulia has few schools, all of them in small towns: Alberobello, Grottaglie, Otranto. It is the opposite of Tuscany, and for some students that is exactly the point: here there are few foreigners studying Italian, so you speak Italian out of necessity rather than as an exercise.
The local language is Apulian, which in the north resembles Neapolitan and in the Salento has a history of its own, with traces of ancient Greek: in some villages Griko is still spoken. Nobody expects you to understand it, but knowing it exists changes the way you listen.
It is cheap, below the Italian average. The right window is May to June or September: in July and August the region fills with Italian holidaymakers and accommodation prices climb steeply. In winter many things close, but classes are very small.
Puglia in numbers
- 3 selected schools
- in 3 cities
- exam centres for CELI
- 7 students per class on average
- all count lessons of 45 or 50 minutes
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