Archives for April 2014

Last few days for CILS enrollment and special offer!

April 28, 2014 by Daniel

CILS Italian language exams

This is a final reminder for anyone interested in taking a CILS exam in Bologna on 5th June.

Enrollments close on Wednesday 30th April, but not to worry: it takes just seconds to complete your enrollment and pay your exam fee in our online shop.

And don’t forget our special CILS offer for anyone planning on taking an Italian course in Bologna in the period immediately before (or after) the exam…

Choose Madrelingua for both your course and your CILS exam, and we’ll discount the course price by €40, which is the cost of the A1 and A2 level exams.

In effect, you’ll pay for your course, but get an A1/A2 exam completely free!

More about CILS Italian language exams here.

Go here to enrol for your CILS exam.

Don’t miss the CILS exam registration deadline next week!

April 23, 2014 by Daniel

If you need a push to improve your Italian, don’t forget the up-coming June session of CILS (Italian language) exams.

Registration ends at the end of April, which still leaves you time to look for cheap flights to Bologna and complete our extremely simple online booking process.

Take a look at these recent articles on why you might want to include an exam as part of your language learning:

An exam will help you learn more, faster (‘Force yourself to improve your Italian with these 6 psychological tricks’)
Taking an exam helps you measure your progress and set targets (‘What are CILS exams (and where might you take one)?’)

And don’t forget that if you take an Italian course at our school immediately before or after your exam date, we’ll discount your course by the cost of an A1 or A2 CILS exam (or equivalent amount if you’d prefer to take a higher level).

To turbo-charge your Italian studies and save €€ on your next Italian course, click here to visit our CILS page.

Remember, registrations for the June session of exams end a week today, Wednesday 30th of April.

More information on CILS exams in Bologna.

What are CILS exams (and where might you take one)?

April 9, 2014 by Daniel

If you’ve studied foreign languages before, you’ll know that there are often exams available for the language that you’re learning.

Just taking a look at the most frequently learnt European languages, English has the famous TOEFL, plus a whole lot of other options, whereas if you’re learning French, there are DELF and DALF. The Goethe-Institut offers German language exams, and for Spanish, you could take a DELE test.

That’s not to mention, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and so on.

But why would you bother? After all, it’s not as if taking a language exam is exactly a fun thing to do, right?

Well, that depends…

Last few days for CILS enrollment and special offer!

Don’t miss the CILS exam registration deadline next week!

What are CILS exams (and where might you take one)?

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