page_title: Italian language in Venezuela
section_title: Italian language teaching in Venezuela
hierarchical_section_title: Italian language in Venezuela / Italian language teaching in Venezuela
caption_attribution_description: Español: Porcentaje de ciudadanos nacidos en Italia (por parroquias), que residen en Venezuela según el XIV Censo Nacional (2011). English: Map of Venezuela, showing percentage of population born in Italy, by parroquias (parishes) according the 2011 Census. Italiano: Mappa del Venezuela, che mostra la percentuale di popolazione nata in Italia, da Parrocchia civile, secondo il Censimento del 2011.
context_page_description: The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There is around 200,000 Italian-speakers in the country, turning it in the second most spoken language in Venezuela, after Spanish.
context_section_description: In the 2000s there are nearly 50,000 Italians residing in Venezuela who speak a variety of Italian with their sons and daughters (second generation Italo-Venezuelans). 
  The teaching of the Italian language is starting to be better implemented among the nearly one million Venezuelans who are of Italian descent, but there are only a few Italian language institutions in Venezuela.
  Indeed, the Italian community has some private Italian schools in the country.  In the metropolitan area of Caracas the best school is the "Agustin Codazzi"  (with courses from elementary to high school), while there are others in the interior of Venezuela (like in Puerto La Cruz the "Colegio Angelo De Marta" and in Barquisimeto the "Colegio Agazzi").
  According to the Italian Embassy in Caracas the "...Italian language teaching is guaranteed by the presence of a consistent number of private Venezuelan schools and institutions, where Italian language courses and Italian literature are active. Other similar courses are organized and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Associations.The Didactic Office of the General Consulate of Caracas, together with this Embassy, is negotiating an Agreement with the Venezuelan Authorities for the recognition of the Study Diplomas emitted by the Italian School (in Venezuela there is a Civil Association called "Agostino Codazzi" which offers the complete didactic cycle from elementary to high school) so that there can be access to the University system in Venezuela with an Italian high school diploma.Since 2002, the Italian Government has become the promoter for a provision which makes it mandatory to teach Italian as a second language in a consistent number of public and private schools within Venezuela..."
caption: Communities (parroquias) of Venezuela where the Italians are concentrated (the greener the more)
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