The Italian Voice: Discovering the Sounds, Rhythm & Musicality of Italian

Discover the music of the Italian language and learn how to speak with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.

Designed for beginner Italian learners, The Italian Voice is a unique course that places pronunciation, sound, and spoken communication at the centre of the learning experience. Rather than following a traditional grammar-first approach, this course focuses on developing your listening and speaking skills from the very beginning, helping you build a natural Italian accent and the confidence to communicate effectively.

Through guided pronunciation practice, articulation exercises, and practical vocabulary, you will explore the rhythm, melody, and expressive qualities that make Italian such a beautiful and distinctive language. You will learn not only the words, but also how to use your voice to make your Italian sound more natural and engaging.

The course is structured around six modules, with each lesson combining phonetics, articulation, vocabulary development, and real-life communication practice:

Module 1: The Five Notes – The Purity of Italian Vowels
Master the foundation of Italian pronunciation by exploring vowel sounds, greetings, and introductions.

Module 2: The Heartbeat – Rhythm, Stress & Flow
Learn how Italian rhythm and word stress shape the language while building essential vocabulary related to time, dates, and everyday communication.

Module 3: The Flavour of Italian Sounds – Double Consonants & Sibilants
Practice the distinctive sounds of Italian, including double consonants and sibilants, while developing vocabulary connected to Italian culture, products, and dining experiences.

Module 4: Special Sounds – Sci, Gli, Gna & the Italian “R”
Gain confidence with some of the most challenging Italian sounds and learn useful expressions for travel, social interactions, and professional settings.

Module 5: Italian Legato – Creating Your First Fluent Sentences
Discover how Italian words connect together naturally. Practice articles, prepositions, questions, and expressions to create meaningful personal and professional conversations.

Module 6: The Voice of Authenticity – Your First Italian Presentation
Bring together everything you have learned by creating and delivering a confident self-introduction or personal/professional presentation in Italian.

By the end of the course, you will have developed stronger pronunciation skills, greater speaking confidence, and a deeper appreciation for the rhythm and musicality of the Italian language.

Level: Beginner Italian
Focus: Pronunciation, speaking skills, and authentic communication
Format: 6 interactive modules

Our Instructor

Cinzia Candela, is an Italian-born Master of Voice and Trainer, a professional actress, radio host, and lecturer. She teaches Italian and delivers workshops on voice skills. She is the founder and owner of “Modulavoce,” a company focusing on advanced methods of voice development. Cinzia trained in Italy under renowned journalist Giorgio Dal Piai, an expert in phonetics and an author of seminal books. She has over thirty years of experience in teaching advanced voice techniques. Cinzia designed this course to give her students the right tools to succeed in their business and personal interactions with Italian entrepreneurs and to better enjoy their Italian vacations

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
No textbook is required.

Schedule

Wednesday evening,  September 2 to October 7, 2026
6:00 pm-7:30 pm PST 6 weeks – Classes meet once a week in our downtown premises

Course fee

Early Bird Rate 160$ (+5%GST) – available until July 31

180$ (+5%GST) after July 31st

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

The Voice of Made in Italy – Wednesday evenings

Hosted by Cinzia Candela, Master of Voice

Designed for intermediate Italian learners (B1/B2 level) this is a new and unique course where you will learn how to speak confidently and elegantly like an Italian.

Aimed at intermediate Italian learners (B1/B2 level), The Voice of Made in Italy is a unique course focused on improving your communication skills and developing your pronunciation, diction and voice projection.

You will learn to speak confidently and clearly, and to build a powerful professional image.

This course includes six 90-minute lessons covering three key areas:

● Business Italian: The Perfect Pitch. Learn to introduce yourself and your proposals in a convincing, engaging manner.
● The Art of Business Negotiation and Mediation. Learn strategies to build useful connections.
● Business Etiquette, image-building and appropriate voice projection. Learn proper body language and voice inflection to communicate effectively.

Our Instructor

Cinzia Candela, is an Italian-born Master of Voice and Trainer, a professional actress, radio host, and lecturer. She teaches Italian and delivers workshops on voice skills. She is the founder and owner of “Modulavoce,” a company focusing on advanced methods of voice development. Cinzia trained in Italy under renowned journalist Giorgio Dal Piai, an expert in phonetics and an author of seminal books. She has over thirty years of experience in teaching advanced voice techniques. Cinzia designed this course to give her students the right tools to succeed in their business and personal interactions with Italian entrepreneurs and to better enjoy their Italian vacations.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
No textbook is required.

Schedule

Wednesday evening,  August 5 to August 26, 2026
6:00 pm-7:30 pm PST
4 weeks – Classes meet once a week in our downtown premises

Course fee

Early Bird Rate 120$ (+5%GST) – available until July 31

140$ (+5%GST) after July 31st

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Intermediate 3 (Online) – Friday evenings

Our Intermediate 3 course will focus on expanding fundamental notions and presentation of elaborate structures, present, past and imperative tenses, and different modes. You will enhance your ability to comprehend, interact and express yourself in common personal and social contexts. Enriched opportunities to explore Italian culture and develop intercultural skills. Aligned with CEFR level A2 objectives.

Completion of the Intermediate 1 course is recommended.

What you will learn

  • Students will continue to expand their vocabulary and develop the complexity of their sentences in everyday situations, like learning how to express surprise, ask for the duration and cost of a trip, talk about their holidays, learn to interact on social media in Italian
describe food and taste
  • Focus on speaking correctly and distinguishing between regular and irregular past, present and imperative tenses, pronouns, and verbs pronominal
  • Deepen understanding of the nuances of Italian, including correct registers of language to use in various situations.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 2 – The course consists of Chapters 8, 9, 10. The textbook is mandatory, the 65$ is on top of the course fee.

Schedule

Monday evenings, from July 10 to September 18, 2026

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet once a week on Zoom

Tickets

Early Bird Rate 260$ (+5%GST) – available until April 1st
290$ (+5%GST) – available from April 2nd

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Beginner 2 (Online) – Tuesday evenings

Beginner 2 is an introductory course following Beginner 1 course. It is designed for those with little or no previous knowledge of the Italian language.
This course is being delivered virtually with live instruction and interaction.
If you already have a basic understanding of the language, consider Italian for Beginners II.

What you will learn

  • How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as introducing yourself, talking about daily activities, describing what you do for work, writing and reading simple texts, such as an e-mail, talking about the things you like dislike, ordering a meal, and telling time
  • Basic grammar structures such as articles and nouns, adjectives, and present tenses of regular and irregular verbs
  • Italian culture, including daily life, film, cuisine, and vacationing

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso – The course consists of Chapters 5,6,7.

Schedule

Thursday evenings, from July 7 to September 15, 2026

6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Course fee

260$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until June 20

290$ (+5% GST) from June 21

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy.

Beginner 3 (In-person) – Thursday evenings

Beginner 3 is a continuation of foundational elements of the Italian language. Development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in the context of everyday situations in the present and past tenses.

This course is being delivered virtually with live instruction and interaction.

What you will learn

  • How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as practicing talking about your daily life, past events, holidays, and your family. For instance, you will talk about your purchases, simulating the situation of a grocery shop.
  • Basic grammar structures such as past tenses of regular and irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, pronouns, superlative assoluto, and adverbs of frequency. Increase grammar skills to build more conversation
  • Italian culture.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso – The course consists of Chapters 8, 9, 10. The textbook is mandatory, the 65$ is on top of the course fee.

Schedule

Thursday evenings, from July 9 to September 17, 2026
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST
Classes meet once a week in our downtown school

Courses Fee

Early Bird 288.5$ (+5% GST) – available until June 20

Regular Price 320$ (+5% GST) from June 21

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Intermediate 1 (Online) – Tuesday evenings

Our Intermediate 1 course is great to build knowledge and strengthen your skills. Whether you’re buying a holiday home in Italy or taking a road trip along the Amalfi Coast, this course will equip you with helpful vocabulary for everyday conversation. You will continue to build on previously acquired competencies in A1 and you will be introduced to more complex language structures used to communicate in a variety of situations by using different tenses and modes. Aligned with CEFR level A2 objectives.

Completion of Beginner 3 and Conversation 1 Courses is recommended. Or if you can have simple intermediate-level conversations on familiar topics, this level is ideal.

What you will learn

  • Students will understand and ask for information about how to shop for clothes, describe someone’s physical appearance or personality, express wishes, and desires, and talk about childhood memories. Furthermore, you will make comparisons, you will argue in favor or against something, and you will be able to provide advice
  • You will focus on the imperfetto tense, so you can talk about the past and how this differs from passato prossimo, which we will also revise.
  • Italian culture from newspaper articles extracts from novels, films, and audio clips are also used to add authenticity and context to your learning.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 2 – The course consists of Chapters 1,2,3,4. The textbook is mandatory, the 65$ is on top of the course fee.

Schedule

Tuesday evenings, from July 7 to September 15
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Courses Fee

260$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until June 20

290$ (+5% GST) FROM June 21

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy.

Advanced 1 (Online) – Monday evenings

Advanced 1 will help you become more fluent in the language, deepen your understanding of the nuances of Italian, and approach authentic material (i.e. TV news, newspapers, films). The focus will be on speaking correctly and learning new grammar topics, distinguishing between the past, present, and future tenses. Italian culture is an integral part of this course: through interviews and readings you will learn about many aspects of Italian art, history, politics, and contemporary society

Once completing Advanced 1, 2, and 3 you’ll be able to converse with native speakers, follow debates and discuss current issues using more complex and linguistically accurate structures and a greater range of vocabulary.

This course is for students who have completed the Intermediate 3 course or for those who have high intermediate experience with the Italian language and are comfortable having conversations in different verb tenses.

What you will learn

  • Students will continue to add to your vocabulary and develop the complexity of your sentences in everyday situations, including travel, food, shopping, transportation, family, and business
  • Students will learn how to the correct registers of the language in various situations
  • You’ll improve your command of topic-related vocabulary and ability to vary your style according to the situation.
  • You will learn critical grammatical structures, such as the subjunctive in various tenses, perfect conditional, past perfect, and pronominal verbs.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 3 is required. The course consists of chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4

Schedule

Monday evenings, from July 6 to September 28, 2026 (on statutory holidays, classes will not be held)
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Tickets

260$ (+ 5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until June 20

290$ (+ 5% GST) from June 21

 

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses anytime due to low enrollment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit the Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Beginner 1 (In-Person) – Monday evenings

Beginner 1 is an introductory course that teaches the four basic skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) in the context of major themes in Italian culture. It is designed for those with little or no previous knowledge of the Italian language.
This course is being delivered virtually with live instruction and interaction.
If you already have a basic understanding of the language, consider Italian for Beginners II.

What you will learn

  • How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as introducing yourself, talking about daily activities, describing what you do for work, writing and reading simple texts, such as an e-mail, talking about the things you like dislike, ordering a meal, and telling time
  • Basic grammar structures such as articles and nouns, adjectives, and present tenses of regular and irregular verbs
  • Italian culture, including daily life, film, cuisine, and vacationing

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso PLUS – The course consists of Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4. The textbook is mandatory, the 65$ is on top of the course fee.

Schedule

Monday evening, from July 6 to September 28, 2026 (on statutory holidays, classes will not be held)
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet once a week in our downtown school 

Courses Fee

288.5 (+ GST) Early bird rate until June 20

320 (+ GST) from June 21

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrollment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

CILS B1 Preparation course (Online) – Saturday mornings

This course is specifically crafted to familiarize you with the exam format and enhance your readiness. It kicks off on August 8th, every Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, spanning a 8-week duration. The course fee is 350$ GST. Completion of the Intermediate 2 course is recommended.

Here’s the exciting part! It’s meticulously tailored to align with the CILS exam format. Check out the course description below for more details.

What you will learn

  • Practice reading a variety of text types. The reading tasks include skimming for gist, scanning for details, understanding text structure/cohesion, deducing meaning from context and interpreting inference, attitude, and style, and completing notes, sentences, tables, summaries, and diagrams or flowcharts
  • Practice writing 150 words or more in length based on what the exam will require.
  • Practice different language tasks through a variety of activities, lectures, role-play, games, and assignments

Our instructors, certified by the CILS Centre and the test commission, possess extensive knowledge of the test format. They are well-equipped to provide a solid foundation for achieving optimal results. We are confident that this course will significantly contribute to your success in the CILS exam.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Content from previous CILS B1 exams

Schedule

Saturday Mornings
9:00 am-11:00 am PST
6 weeks – Classes meet once a week on Zoom on

April 18 & 25,

May 10 & 16,

June 6 & 13.

 

Courses

260$ (+ GST)

Course Cancellations

Please note that courses may be canceled by the school administration at any time due to low enrollment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit the Cancellation & Refund policy.

Parliamo Italiano 3! Conversation & Fluency Practice for Advanced speakers – Monday evenings

Parliamo Italiano 3! Conversation & Fluency Practice is the best way to improve oral fluency through conversational practice.

This course is designed to help Intermediate students improve their oral fluency and confidence in Italian through engaging conversational practice. Each week the instructor will introduce new topics and guide discussions using a variety of materials such as short readings, videos, music, articles, and other resources related to contemporary Italian culture and everyday life.

The class includes 1.5 hours of conversational practice, giving students the opportunity to actively participate, express opinions, and interact with classmates in Italian.

The goal of the course is to create a supportive and dynamic environment where students can practice speaking regularly, expand their vocabulary, and gain confidence communicating in Italian. While the main focus is spoken fluency and interaction, the instructor will also highlight and correct key grammar points when needed and will clarify language questions that emerge during class discussions.

Completion of the Advanced 2 Course is recommended.

 

What you will learn

  • Students will expand their vocabulary in a way that will benefit both general conversation and discussion of specific topics
  • Students will familiarize themselves with a variety of current issues relating to Italy
  • Improve speaking fluency and confidence through regular interaction in Italian about several topics, ranging from social and political issues to media, pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports
  • Strengthen grammatical accuracy through short reviews connected to each week’s conversation topics

 

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!

Students will be provided with handouts and class materials.

No textbook is required

Monday evening, April 27 to July 6, 2026
5:00 pm- 6:30 pm PST
10 weeks – Classes meet once a week on Zoom.

 

Course Fee

Early Bird Rate 210$ (+5%GST) – available until April 1st

240$ (+ GST) after April 2nd

 

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses due to low enrollment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.

For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit the Cancellation & Refund policy