Italian Lessons in Perth

According to UNESCO, Italy boasts 60 of the world’s art treasures, making Italian a vital language for culture lovers and travelers. With its uniquely musical cadence, Italian is considered an easy language to learn and speak, and can make picking up both Spanish and French a breeze! Nations like Australia and the U.S. have thriving Italian communities, which means that learning this wonderful language can be useful both at a local level and abroad.

In 2016, Population Australia showed that over a quarter of Australians were born overseas. And in Perth, the fourth-largest city in the country, 30% of its 2-million-strong population are immigrants. Foreign-born concentrations, especially Indians and Malaysians, are growing in the suburbs, while more Asians, including the Chinese, are moving into the city. In fact, Perth now rivals Melbourne and other multicultural Australian cities for its ethnic diversity. Just take a stroll around the city and you will go through Chinatown, Greektown, Little Portugal and a huge Punjabi market.  And while English is the de facto language spoken by over 70% of the city’s population, 20 different languages are spoken natively throughout the city (the most common ones being Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Italian, Korean and Japanese). Many of these people are privileged to be able to make the most of both their native culture and their adopted Australian one. Expand your own knowledge, experiences and opportunities, too, and start learning a foreign language today to connect with one (or more) of these communities.