Italian language schools in Sicily
6 selected schools in Sicily, across 6 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.
Sicily at a glance
The towns where you can study in Sicily: the streets you'll walk every morning and the places where you'll need real Italian.
Where the schools are
schools
The 6 schools in Sicily
| School | Town | Real hours a week | Students per class | Lesson length | Google reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solemar Academy | Cefalù | 15 hours | max 6 | 45 min | — |
| Laboling | Milazzo | 15 hours | max 12 | 45 min | — |
| Itastra Università di Palermo | Palermo | 15 hours | max 12 | 45 min | — |
| Solemar Sicilia | Palermo (Mondello) | 15 hours | max 12 | 45 min | — |
| Babilonia Centro di Lingua e Cultura Italiana | Taormina | 15 hours | max 12 | 45 min | — |
| Scuola Virgilio | Trapani | 15 hours | max 12 | 45 min | — |
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Studying Italian in Sicily
Sicily is the most spread-out region on this site: six schools in six different towns, no concentration anywhere. That means you choose the place rather than the school: Palermo is big and complicated, Taormina and Cefalù are small and touristic, Milazzo and Trapani are everyday Italy.
The language is the thing to understand. Sicilian is not a dialect of Italian but a Romance language of its own, and you hear it constantly in the street. It is less of a problem than it sounds: with outsiders Sicilians switch to Italian on their own, and what you gain is an ear trained on the real country.
It is also the cheapest region here: accommodation and daily life cost noticeably less than in Tuscany. The right window is April to June or September to October; July and August are very hot and life moves to the evening.
Sicily in numbers
- 6 selected schools
- in 6 cities
- exam centres for CELI, CILS
- the oldest has been teaching since 1994
- 11 students per class on average
- all count lessons of 45 or 50 minutes
Why «hours» are not hours, and what the price really includes: the guide