Italy

Minority
languages

Approach

City/region

Parents

Kid(s)

Additional remarks


German

Other

Rome

Hanne and Tim
Anna ( Feb 1988), Michael (Aug 1990), Lisa (Jun 1992) and Katrin (Feb 1996)
At home or at our American Church, we speak English. Now the children have started at the German school, where the lessons are in German, but there is also a lot of Italian spoken. I (Hanne) speak always German when at home. Unfortunately, we don´t speak Italian yet.
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German

OPOL

Piacenza

Hilde and Massimo
Chiara (5 Jun 1998)

OPOL

Siena, in the region of Tuscany

Tracy and Luigi
Marco Aurelio (21 May 2000) and Giulio Alexander (June 2002)
We practice OPOL where I speak English (translating to Italian in mixed company) and my husband speaks Italian with the kids.
I host a English-Italian Children's group -
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OPOL

Milan

Karina and Luigi Granato
Luca (4 Dec 1999)
I would love to explore the possibility of joining/creating a multi-cultural/language playgroup in the Milan area!

OPOL

Milan

Meg and Carlos
Lucas (21 Jun 1997)and Samuel (Dec 2000)

OPOL

Assisi

Rebecca and Stefano
Nicolò (15 Aug 2001)
There is a big expat comunity here in Assisi, and we run an inn and work overwhelmingly with English speaking guests, so our son currently hears English much more that Italian, though seems to be picking them up at the same rate. I would love to get a group of Anglo/Italian couples with kids organized in the area.

OPOL

Milano/Bergamo

Marc & Sara
Mattia (25 Oct 2003)
We are an english/italian couple with a young couple and we heard of a play
group in the Lakes region that is working very well and we'd like to put
together something similar. We think it would benefit both the kids and the
parents alike.
Danish

OPOL

Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia

Barbara and David
Erik Victor (14.02.03)
We lived in Dk for 2 years and now moved to Italy. We practise OPOL with Erik Victor and we speak Danish to each other.We would like to exchange experiences with other people in the same situation.