In what months do university students from France and Italy usually have their exams?
I will be going to Europe this April 2011, and I'll be meeting some friends. I wanna go there when they won't have any exams/have any exams soon so we could have lots of time together.
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In France: january/february and may/june depending on the grade and university.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
Visiting Italy again without a visa, limits on stay?
Visiting Italy again without a visa, limits on stay?
I'm planning on studying abroad for a semester in Florence, Italy from about January to April. Because the program is 13 weeks, I would be using a Student Visa during this stay. Now, usually I stay for a few weeks in Milan in the summer without a visa. Will my time spent at study abroad with a visa use up my 12 week visa-free time period?
Other - Italy - 2 Answers
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Visa free stay is determined as being 90 days within any 6 months period. If you stay in Italy on a student visa until April you should not try to return and apply for visa-free entry before July in other words stay out of the Schengen area for at least 93 days..
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This is really a question you should be asking the Italian Embassy. I'm assuming you're getting the student visa through the Embassy, so they will be able to give you factual information on your visa status once the student visa has expired.
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I'm planning on studying abroad for a semester in Florence, Italy from about January to April. Because the program is 13 weeks, I would be using a Student Visa during this stay. Now, usually I stay for a few weeks in Milan in the summer without a visa. Will my time spent at study abroad with a visa use up my 12 week visa-free time period?
Other - Italy - 2 Answers
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Visa free stay is determined as being 90 days within any 6 months period. If you stay in Italy on a student visa until April you should not try to return and apply for visa-free entry before July in other words stay out of the Schengen area for at least 93 days..
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This is really a question you should be asking the Italian Embassy. I'm assuming you're getting the student visa through the Embassy, so they will be able to give you factual information on your visa status once the student visa has expired.
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Monday, July 7, 2014
Where in Italy is the best to learn about Italian cooking?
Where in Italy is the best to learn about Italian cooking?
I'm a student that is going to a technical culinary program next year and after i have plans to move to Europe for a couple of years to work as a chef in France and Italy. I was wondering where in Italy is the best place to learn about classical Italian Cuisine. I want to know if i am better off in the country or in the city? I am also looking for a full cultural experience. Thanks
Other - Italy - 6 Answers
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Different regions here have different specialties. It would be hard to go wrong no matter what region you picked. Certainly Emilia Romagna is an excellent place for food. You might actually want to spend some time in more than one region and cover a little of both city and country life.
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For cuisine and culture you need to go to Tuscany. Tuscan cuisine is regarded as te pinnacle of Italian cuisine by Italians and Tuscany is also the most varied and gorgeous cultural hub. Florence is the obvious first choice but any of the Tuscan towns are lovely. Avoid the coutryside simply because you will be in the middle of nowhere and it will be very hard to have a social life - save that for day trips. There are no big towns in that part of Italy that will swallow you up. With culinary training in Tuscany you will have te best chance to get a job as a chef anywhere in Italy or France and you will just be saturated in beauty, history and Italian tradition.
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Tuscany is the centre of the italian art and it's the region where italian language was born, but tuscan cuisine is quite poor compared to other regional cuisine like "cucina emiliano-romagnola" or like "cucina napoletana" (just to nominate two of them). I'm napulitain, it's 19 years I live in Tuscany and love it, think Tuscany is probably the most beautiful italian region, but the cuisine is just good, not great. The sweets in particular are very elementar (there is just an excellent gelato, but that's a sicilian invention). Like Conley said any italian region got its own cuisine. Actually italian cuisine doesn't really exist, or better it exists but it's a recent invention. The traditional italian cuisine is regional. "Italian cuisine" is just a very useful market label to sell the "made in Italy", it's much more comfy than selling sicilian cuisine or roman cuisine, and all the others.
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Actually, a "Italian cuisine" doesn't exist, but lots of different Italian cookings in the different regions. Everywhere in Italy you can find restaurants which serve basical Italian specialities of pasta or pizza, but every region has its own features. I think you'd better choose a middle town, look for a job in a little typical restaurant and learn the secrets of the local cooks. For instance: Pavia, Mantova, Verona, Parma, Ferrara, Ravenna, Siena, Perugia, Orvieto, Viterbo, L'Aquila, Caserta, Lecce, Siracusa (all of them are also very beautiful towns). In the biggest towns you can obviously find excellent restaurants and cooks, but on the average typical culinary traditions are less strong.
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Bologna! it is a very cool city and the best for italian cooking.
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In my opinion Sicilia. Italy has got several flavors... Emilia Romagna e Toscana cuisine is good, but Sicily is the best....Really...
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I'm a student that is going to a technical culinary program next year and after i have plans to move to Europe for a couple of years to work as a chef in France and Italy. I was wondering where in Italy is the best place to learn about classical Italian Cuisine. I want to know if i am better off in the country or in the city? I am also looking for a full cultural experience. Thanks
Other - Italy - 6 Answers
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Different regions here have different specialties. It would be hard to go wrong no matter what region you picked. Certainly Emilia Romagna is an excellent place for food. You might actually want to spend some time in more than one region and cover a little of both city and country life.
2 :
For cuisine and culture you need to go to Tuscany. Tuscan cuisine is regarded as te pinnacle of Italian cuisine by Italians and Tuscany is also the most varied and gorgeous cultural hub. Florence is the obvious first choice but any of the Tuscan towns are lovely. Avoid the coutryside simply because you will be in the middle of nowhere and it will be very hard to have a social life - save that for day trips. There are no big towns in that part of Italy that will swallow you up. With culinary training in Tuscany you will have te best chance to get a job as a chef anywhere in Italy or France and you will just be saturated in beauty, history and Italian tradition.
3 :
Tuscany is the centre of the italian art and it's the region where italian language was born, but tuscan cuisine is quite poor compared to other regional cuisine like "cucina emiliano-romagnola" or like "cucina napoletana" (just to nominate two of them). I'm napulitain, it's 19 years I live in Tuscany and love it, think Tuscany is probably the most beautiful italian region, but the cuisine is just good, not great. The sweets in particular are very elementar (there is just an excellent gelato, but that's a sicilian invention). Like Conley said any italian region got its own cuisine. Actually italian cuisine doesn't really exist, or better it exists but it's a recent invention. The traditional italian cuisine is regional. "Italian cuisine" is just a very useful market label to sell the "made in Italy", it's much more comfy than selling sicilian cuisine or roman cuisine, and all the others.
4 :
Actually, a "Italian cuisine" doesn't exist, but lots of different Italian cookings in the different regions. Everywhere in Italy you can find restaurants which serve basical Italian specialities of pasta or pizza, but every region has its own features. I think you'd better choose a middle town, look for a job in a little typical restaurant and learn the secrets of the local cooks. For instance: Pavia, Mantova, Verona, Parma, Ferrara, Ravenna, Siena, Perugia, Orvieto, Viterbo, L'Aquila, Caserta, Lecce, Siracusa (all of them are also very beautiful towns). In the biggest towns you can obviously find excellent restaurants and cooks, but on the average typical culinary traditions are less strong.
5 :
Bologna! it is a very cool city and the best for italian cooking.
6 :
In my opinion Sicilia. Italy has got several flavors... Emilia Romagna e Toscana cuisine is good, but Sicily is the best....Really...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Whats is like going on student exchange?
Whats is like going on student exchange?
in a few months i am going on student exchange to italy but im not sure what to expect :/ whats its like e.g the culture, the food, school, host familys, the language?
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I am from Germany and doing exchange right now in California. I can tell you a few tips: I was really afraid I wouldnt know what to talk about in the beginning, but that is absolutely no problem, at least my hostfamily (which is only one guy) asked me all the questions in the beginning and then the flow started easily. I've been in Italy a few times and the food is amazing. I found friends pretty easily, too, because everyone is coming to you saying hi and a lot of people want to know you. Just make sure you keep hanging out with people and don't be afraid to ask new people do do things with you. I think that was my biggest mistake in the beginning. I dont know about your Italian skills, but I spoke English before I came, I learned it in school and it really wasnt a problem. But even if you don't know Italian, almost everyone in Europe learns English and you adapt very fast if you have to. Don't be afraid to make a mistake speaking, they will correct you and you will get betters, so don't try to speak English all the time :) I am very happy I did this and it has been one of the bets if not the best year in my life. I'd recommend it to anybody. I'm sad I have to leave in 3 months. I hope I could help :) Don't be scared it'll be fun Veith
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in a few months i am going on student exchange to italy but im not sure what to expect :/ whats its like e.g the culture, the food, school, host familys, the language?
Other - Europe - 1 Answers
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I am from Germany and doing exchange right now in California. I can tell you a few tips: I was really afraid I wouldnt know what to talk about in the beginning, but that is absolutely no problem, at least my hostfamily (which is only one guy) asked me all the questions in the beginning and then the flow started easily. I've been in Italy a few times and the food is amazing. I found friends pretty easily, too, because everyone is coming to you saying hi and a lot of people want to know you. Just make sure you keep hanging out with people and don't be afraid to ask new people do do things with you. I think that was my biggest mistake in the beginning. I dont know about your Italian skills, but I spoke English before I came, I learned it in school and it really wasnt a problem. But even if you don't know Italian, almost everyone in Europe learns English and you adapt very fast if you have to. Don't be afraid to make a mistake speaking, they will correct you and you will get betters, so don't try to speak English all the time :) I am very happy I did this and it has been one of the bets if not the best year in my life. I'd recommend it to anybody. I'm sad I have to leave in 3 months. I hope I could help :) Don't be scared it'll be fun Veith
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