Italian
Italian (Italiano) is a Romance language currently spoken by some 66,000,000 people, of whom the vast majority live in peninsular Italy (including the Republic of San Marino). France, including Corsica, has about 260,000 Italian speakers and Switzerland more than 500,000 (the canton of Ticino).
The sound system of Italian did not evolve further than that of Vulgar Latin. The vocal system consists of 7 vowels and is considered triangular (as that of Classical Latin and modern Spanish). Italian orthography is rather simple as it follows a phonetic (like Spanish) and not an etymologcal pattern (like French and English).
At International Language Academy we provide various levels of Italian language conversational course – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Training materials are developed by our own teachers following years of teaching Italian language in Singapore. A Certificate of Completion is awarded to students completing each stage of the course.