Intensive courses recommendations?
Hello everyone, I'm actually currently doing one myself with Dante Alighieri school in Recanati, but there's a problem. No one here is taking it seriously 😅 The absolute second the bell rings and classes are over, everyone switches back to Portuguese/Spanish/French etc. If I try to talk to them in Italian they're okay to do it for a few seconds, but then they break back off into their friendship groups of people of the same native language, and it's the same on fieldtrips too.
The town I'm in is small so I can only bug the townspeople for so long without being a nuisance (since you know, they have jobs to do and their own lives to live and since I'm only here temporarily it doesn't make sense for them to try and make friends with me really either). If I do an intensive course in a bigger city there are more people to try and talk to but of course the bigger cities have a higher English proficiency and try as I do to hide my accent they notice I'm an anglophone so we end up having this awkward exchange where they keep trying in English and I keep trying in Italian lol.
I'm curious if anyone knows of a course that's in a city bigger than Recanati but not too much English and also maybe in an area where the students are more likely to take it seriously? I think everyone here is kinda in vacation mode and forgetting the point is to improve Italian because as soon as classes end trying to practice Italian with them is like pulling teeth.
Anyway if anyone has had any good experiences please let me know. I'm curious about maybe Perugia or perhaps somewhere in Friuli-Venezia Giulia or something? Sienna sounds cool but it's a pretty expensive city so I think it'd be hard for me to afford staying for four weeks-ish.