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Bring Italian into your everyday life, travels and professional relationships. Practise understanding, speaking and writing through situations that connect with your interests, from a conversation in Italy to cooperation with international colleagues. Your personalised pathway follows the CEFR A1–C2 framework, starting from your assessed level.
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YOUR NEXT LANGUAGE LEVEL
Your starting point and goals follow the official CEFR framework of the Council of Europe.
OSAM’s indicative pathway, with an initial and final assessment. Your pace depends on your starting point and regular practice.
YOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
A pathway towards the next CEFR level, for example A1 to A2. The level reached is assessed at the end.
Synchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
An individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Learn with a native-speaking trainer who holds a relevant qualification and has teaching experience. Your trainer is matched to your profile and goals.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
For adults, professionals and teams who want Italian for travel, personal relationships or collaboration with Italian-speaking contacts.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
An initial assessment identifies your current skills against the CEFR A1–C2 reference levels. Agree your next target and the situations you want to handle confidently. OSAM uses around six months per additional level as a planning guide; pace is adapted to your starting point, learning intensity and practice. The modules below are weighted to your needs.
Practise stress, vowels and the distinction between single and double consonants. Listening examples focus on requests, figures and time references. Learn to ask useful clarification questions when meaning is incomplete. Materials reflect your interests and gradually build familiarity with naturally spoken Italian at an appropriate pace.
Work on articles, prepositions, pronouns and essential verb forms through practical tasks. Recount past events, describe current situations and discuss plans. More advanced practice develops explanations and hypotheses. Frequent errors are addressed through concrete examples and repeated use, linking grammatical choices to the meaning you want to convey.
Rehearse introductions, appointments, customer enquiries and short meetings. Explain a service, request information and summarise agreed points. Practise choosing between tu and Lei according to the context. Build professional vocabulary from realistic tasks, so new language becomes part of an exchange rather than a disconnected list of terms.
Read emails, brief notices and role-related texts, then produce clear requests, replies and summaries. Compare communication conventions in context without making blanket assumptions about people. Exercises reflect your personal contacts or collaboration with colleagues, customers and business partners.
Apply the language you have practised in a connected task from your everyday life or work. Your trainer assesses listening, speaking, reading and writing against the agreed CEFR goals and gives focused feedback. Compare your starting and final assessment, identify progress and plan how to maintain or develop your skills further.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Programme Director · Languages
Samuel Dubois brings the programme’s subject expertise into focus. The educational approach connects a structured foundation with practical situations, relevant exercises and feedback aligned with your professional objectives.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
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Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
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GOOD TO KNOW
For adults, professionals and teams who want Italian for travel, personal relationships or collaboration with Italian-speaking contacts. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
OSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
The language pathway is designed to work towards one additional level in approximately six months, for example A1 to A2 or B1 to B2. We use the official CEFR scale: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. An initial assessment sets the starting point; a final assessment verifies the skills achieved. Progress depends on your starting level, participation and practice between lessons. The certificate records the assessed learning outcomes.
A native-speaking, qualified and experienced trainer teaches you in person or by live video. Both formats always include access to the OSAM platform and course materials. Your timetable and practical exercises are adapted to your context.
Yes. Whether you are planning time in Italy, building personal relationships or working internationally, scenarios and vocabulary reflect your goals. We agree the most useful priorities during your consultation.
OSAM structures language goals around the Council of Europe’s CEFR reference levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. We plan approximately six months to work towards one additional level, for example A1 to A2. This is an OSAM planning guide, not a duration prescribed by the CEFR. Progress depends on your starting point, attendance and practice; the final assessment establishes the skills achieved. Contact us for a quotation.
The format can be agreed as live online, face-to-face or blended learning. Individual lessons and team training can also be discussed. Content, location and scheduling are confirmed in the quotation.
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Tell us where you want to go. Together, we will define the learning journey that gets you there.
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