Spring/Summer 2026 “Conversation Tours”
Conversation Tours:
6-week courses of 1-hour sessions that explore Italian events or locations through the magic of the internet. Each session is carefully curated to include warm-up, comprehension, 1-on-1 and full group activities that give the participant the virtual experience of having visited the event or location featured. You will interact with maps, photos, menus, videos, itineraries and other authentic materials to live your language adventure. Conversation tours are made up of 3-10 participants and take place over zoom with additional websites and presentations being made available to participants by your instructor.
🗓️ Course Overview
📅 May 17th – July 5th
🕐 Duration: 1 hour per week 11:30-12:30 Central Time (live on Zoom)
👥 Group size: 3–10 participants
🗣️ Level: A2–B1 (advanced beginner to intermediate)
💰 $35 per session
✨ 6-session series: $210
(No session on Father’s Day)
Sagre e feste italiane
2026 Conversation TConversation Tours: Sagre e Feste Italiane – Primavera/Estate 2026
Join us for six weeks of language, culture, and virtual travel as we explore some of Italy’s most beloved festivals and community celebrations.
Each Conversation Tour combines authentic photos, videos, maps, menus, posters, and local stories to help you experience Italy through the eyes of the people who live there. Together, we will discover how Italians celebrate the seasons, honor local traditions, gather around food, create art, and build community.
Designed for advanced beginners through intermediate learners, Conversation Tours offer a supportive and engaging environment where communication comes first. No passport required.
🌸 Week 1 – Infiorata di Noto (Sicilia)
May 17, 2026
The streets of the Sicilian Baroque city of Noto become enormous floral artworks during one of Italy’s most spectacular spring festivals. Explore flower mosaics, local traditions, and the beauty of a city transformed by creativity and community.
Themes: flowers, art, Sicily, beauty, public space
🍓 Week 2 – Sagra della Fragola (Veneto)
May 24, 2026
Celebrate the strawberry harvest with one of Italy’s most charming spring sagre. Discover local food traditions, festival culture, and the joyful atmosphere of a small-town celebration centered on a beloved seasonal fruit.
Themes: food, agriculture, markets, local identity
🇮🇹 Week 3 – Festa della Repubblica
May 31, 2026
Travel across Italy as we explore the national holiday that commemorates the birth of the Italian Republic. Through photos, monuments, ceremonies, and public celebrations, we will learn how Italians remember the past and imagine their future.
Themes: history, citizenship, democracy, national identity
🧅 Week 4 – Sagra della Cipolla Rossa di Breme (Lombardia)
June 7, 2026
In the rice-growing countryside of Lombardy, a sweet and celebrated red onion takes center stage. Explore local agriculture, regional cuisine, and the creativity of a community that proudly celebrates its most famous crop.
Themes: foodways, rural life, farming traditions, regional culture
🌿 Week 5 – San Giovanni: Folk Traditions of Midsummer
June 28, 2026
Long before modern tourism and even before the modern Italian state, communities across Italy marked the arrival of midsummer with flowers, herbs, bonfires, music, and gatherings under the night sky. Through celebrations dedicated to San Giovanni, we will explore the layered history of seasonal traditions and the ways communities have carried them forward across generations.
Together we will discover flower and herb customs, midsummer folklore, local celebrations, and the enduring relationship between people, landscape, and season.
Themes: folk culture, seasonal traditions, community memory, nature, midsummer
🚶♀️ Week 6 – Mangialonga del Postino (Piemonte)
July 5, 2026
Inspired by the celebrated Mangialonga del Postino, this Conversation Tour invites us to slow down and experience the landscapes, flavors, and rhythms of rural Piemonte one step at a time.
Together we will follow a culinary walking route through vineyards, hill towns, and scenic countryside while exploring authentic itineraries, local foods, regional traditions, and the language of hospitality. Along the way, we’ll practice describing places, planning excursions, ordering meals, and sharing travel experiences in Italian.
This final tour brings together many themes from the series—food, community, landscape, and local identity—through a uniquely Italian style of slow travel.
Themes: walking tours, food culture, itineraries, hospitality, landscape, slow travel
🗣️ What you’ll practice
This course is designed to help you move from understanding to speaking, at your own pace.
We’ll work with language that supports you in:
- expressing preferences (mi piace, preferisco…)
- describing what you notice (vedo…, mi sembra…)
- comparing and giving opinions
- interacting in everyday situations
- telling simple stories about experiences
You’ll always have support—sentence starters, visual cues, and time to observe before speaking.
🌱 How the Conversation Tours work
Each session follows a familiar, gentle structure:
- 👀 Observe — images, short videos, authentic materials
- 🧠 Understand — guided input and key language
- 🗣️ Interact — structured conversation in pairs and as a group
- 🎨 Create — a low-pressure activity to make the language your own
You can participate as much or as little as you need in the moment. Listening is always a valid way of participating.
🌼 Is this for you?
This course may be a good fit if you:
- understand basic Italian but want more opportunities to speak
- prefer a slower, more reflective learning environment
- enjoy learning through culture, not just grammar
- want structure without pressure
🌿 A note on approach
At La Bella Lingua nel Bosco, conversation is not something you are suddenly expected to do—it’s something we build together.
The goal is not perfection, but connection:
to the language, to the culture, and to each other.
✨ Interested?
You can reserve your place or reach out with questions here:
la.bella.lingua.nel.bosco 