Eurolingua Italian Homestay - Omegna, Verbania

  Italy

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Dates: All Year

Description: One-to-One Homestay, living in the tutor's home, including private room, individual and customised tuition, full-board (all meals), participation in family life and activities, cultural visits and excursions. Pick-up/drop-off at the nearest airport/railway station. A fantastic linguistic and cultural experience!!

Eurolingua One-to-One Homestay Programmes are available all year and are suitable for students of any age (16 - 75 years) and language level (beginner to advanced). Ideal for personal interest, business, travel or examination revision purposes. All Eurolingua tutors are fully-qualified teachers and native speakers, experienced in teaching their mother tongue as a foreign language.

The unique Eurolingua One-to-One Homestay Programme will ensure that you make maximum progress in the shortest possible time, whatever your starting level, beginner to advanced. You live full-board in the home of your fully-qualified foreign language tutor, receiving 4 hours per day (20 hours per week) of individual language tuition, specifically adapted to your own level, learning pace and interests, whether for business or pleasure!! The rest of the time you benefit from lots of conversational practice by participating in the usual everyday family activities of your personal tutor and family and by meeting people in the local community. You may, of course, have as much independent time as you wish. You acquire an authentic accent, total confidence and real fluency in the language.

Make spectacular progress in the shortest possible time. Individual tuition adapted to your own requirements, full-board accommodation (private room, all meals), local excursions and lots of fun!

Highlights: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola is an area between two lakes, Maggiore and Orta and surrounded by mountains. It is a tourist centre, above all during spring and summer. The Cusio environment has the kind of landscape with the basic elements that make it different from other lake areas. Lake Orta is a pre-alpine lake that transgressively flows northwards, looking towards the mountains rather than the plain. In the middle of it there is a little island called S.Giulio Island. Omegna, one of the places that crowned Lake Orta and where I live, is a small town located by the lakeside. It is an important industrial centre with well-equipped sports and bathing facilities. It is served by buses, trains and close to several shopping centres. It is a quiet and safe place. Cusio and Verbano are divided by the perfect lakeside mountain called Mottarone (from its top you can see Milano). They boast excellent hotels and camping sites. The Verbano area has its centre in Verbania and is situated by the lakeside Maggiore that has three isles. It is just one hour by car from Switzerland (Italian canton). The Ossola area, with its centre in Domodossola, is mainly mountainous where people go to ski during winter. Its Sempione Pass divides Italy from Switzerland. The house, just 200 metres from the lakeside Orta, has 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and a kitchenette, 3 bathrooms and two showers, a lounge room with piano, Hi Fi, TV and cable TV, two dining rooms (one with a fire place). The student's room is bright with a terrace and view on the little garden where we are used to having lunch and dinner during summer. It is separated by the main house. The bedroom is on the top floor and has three single beds, one wardrobe, a desk with chair. Next to it there is the bathroom with a bath and a shower. On the ground floor there is a large study room with TV, radio and the toilet. I live in the house with my parents. They are both retired, friendly, funny and happy to welcome you as part of the family.

Excursions and Local Attractions
Cusio area (lake Orta): Orta S.Giulio with its characteristic square; the Palazzotto (1582); the Sacro Monte with 20 chapels dedicated to the life of St. Francis of Assisi; S.Giulio Island with its Romanesque Basilica frescoes and Oire-stone ambo; Madonna del Sasso Sanctuary (1748) with its beautiful panorama; the panoramic roads Alzo, Pella, Cesara, Nonio going toward the Valstrona to Campello Monti; Mottarone. Verbano area (lake Maggiore): Pallanza and Intra, the main centres; Bella, Pescatori and Madre Isles; Villa Pallavicino, the zoo by the lakeside; Villa Taranto (from March to October), famous for its flowers and gardens coming from every part of the Europe; Ossola area: Domodossola; Macugnaga, a skiing centre.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: please refer to the Eurolingua web site

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Job and Internship Network

Eurolingua Institute's Mission Statement: The Eurolingua Institute provides group and individual customized tuition in modern languages, paid work experience programmes, internships, and unique immersion programmes living in the teacher's own home. The Eurolingua Institute currently teaches 11 languages at over 70 schools in 40 countries and at over 150 homestay locations worldwide.

Year Founded: 1993