Before You Go to Florence

You can direct any questions to the Florence Program Advisor, Juliette Green, or reach out to our Student Ambassadors or to us at stanfordinflorence@stanford.edu.

Italian is the language of opera and great cinematic and literary works. Studying Italian and becoming proficient in it means finding a key to access Italy’s rich cultural heritage and to understand its unparalleled contribution to western civilization.
Mastering another language gives you a competitive edge in a globalized world.
Italian courses offered on Campus are very flexible and enable students to fit in studying the language with a variety of majors.
Learning Italian will help you understand other languages better and it will also open the doors for new interests like Italian cinema.
Students with a very strong background in another Romance language (French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) can complete the first-year sequence in two rather than three quarters by taking the First-Year accelerated sequence.
Italian is one of the most beautiful languages and can make a great foundation for learning other romance languages. If you already have experience with French or Spanish, Italian grammar and vocabulary is not too difficult to understand and you can be rewarded quickly if you put in the right amount of effort.
Taking Italian will enable you to meet great teachers and classmates.
Featuring the Italian language on your résumé is not only a conversation starter, it also sets you apart from others.

Italian Language Program
Stanford Language Center
450 Jane Stanford Way
Building 30
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: 650-725-9222
languagecenter@stanford.edu

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