She didn't say the most important thing: we go to school on Saturdays. Edit: ok I get it not every Italian went to school on Saturday but most of us did, now ande tutti in mona
1) In Italian schools we don't sing our anthem in the morning, we don't say some pledge and we don't pray, never. Every school has 2 hours of history of religions but you can choose if you wanna take the "class", i didn't. The other courses are mandatory, all of 11-12 courses. 2) 8 a.m to 1 p.m is the regular schedule, some schools aren't open on saturday and some are, for example i've always had school on saturdays, from kindergarden to highschool. Usually if you don't have school on saturdays is because you go out later the other days of the week, like 4-5 p.m. 3) There are no sports in italian school, we have 2-4 hours of physical education and the sports are chosen by the teacher, we could play volleyball, football (soccer), tennis, doing exercises...but we usually don't have tournaments or huge thing such as U.s schools. If we want to do some sport we have to do it in out free time, outside school time. 4) The choice of school at 13-14 is true but the first 2 years of highschool are usually similar for all the students because we study general subjects like italian, history, geography, science, physics, chemistry ecc...after these 2 years we need to choose fo real (for example if you chose the technical school after 2 years you must choose between various major courses such as computer technology, geometry, chemistry, electronics, economy, ecc...) 5) The grades are usually given after tests which can be written or oral. After the 5 years we have the last exam which has 3 major written tests in 3 different days (6 hours of italian, 6-8 hours of your fundamental course, and 1.30 hour for a mix of all the subjects) and then one oral exam of 5-6 subjects where you usually need to bring your thesis made during the last year.
i live in the uk but i have a friend who lives in italy and she said they don’t move between classes? so the students stay in one seat all day and the different teachers came to them, i find this so interesting
Mimi Jenkins yes, we just have a fixed class, with the same people, everyday allday, and the teachers move from a classroom to the next one at the end of the lesson, (usually every hour, but sometimes we have three quarters of an hour or two hours). Hope i was helpful 🤗
Well, in Italy I think that just in a few school you have to move between classes. In the art high school, the one that I'm attending, we change classes mostly every hour, but because as an art school we have a lot of laboratories that can't be used as a normal classroom
I’m an italian student going to high school and I wanted to add that basically every high school in italy doesn’t have canteens, we end at 1 or 2 PM, so we usually have lunch at home, even if with public transport we arrive even at 3PM
ARX 351 Some people live more than an hour away from their school AND we have to use public transportation which means sometimes you have to wait a long time before you can get on a bus + the bus doesn't stop in front of your house so you have to walk from the bus station to your house
I did not at all get an "angry emotional human" vibe from you here, and it's my first time seeing you, so don't worry. :) I've seen quite a few people react like you have here. :)
This was so poorly done because he keeps interrupting her - We go to school on Saturdays, and do 5/6 hours a day (no afternoons!) - Not every school has lunch or a cafeteria. - One hour of religion every week, unless you opt out. Only two ours of PE, but no official school's sports team and no one gives a shit about sports really. - We don't have lockers. We carry all the books/notebooks we need each day in our backpack. - During my time (I think this changed in the last few years?) at elementary school we wore what looked like a white (girls) or blue (boys) lab coat/smock over our clothes. After that, there's no school uniform. - Absolutely no pledge nor prayer, what the fuck. - Grades are in numbers (1 to 10). If at the end of the year you can't reach an average of 6, you might have to repeat the year (you fail a class, are asked to pass an exam during the Summer. If you can't fix your grades, you'll repeat the year as many times as needed) - We never leave the classroom. Kids in the same year in a school are divided into 'sections' (each has a different letter of the alphabet, 1A, 1B, 1C etc) and your class group stays the same throughout the years in a school. Normally between 18-24 kids. Those are your people, and sometimes you get to mingle with other students during field trips but they'll have different teachers. Most teachers are bound to one/two sections. - Traditionally, you have small field trips during the year and one BIG longer trip (3-5 days). Last year of high school is when the big trip gets to be abroad, normally. - There's two types of high schools: Lyceums and Technical Institutes. The former offer a more intellectual education, and you can choose between: Classics (focused on literature and the humanities, you study ancient Greek as a defining subject), Scientific (focused on scientific subjects - you still do philosophy, history, literature and latin the focus is on Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics), Linguistic (focused on foreign languages - you study 2 or 3 of them), Social Sciences (no Latin or advanced sciences, but you do Psychology and Sociology). Technical Institutes vary depending on what you're interested in - could be Artistic, focused on the Service and Hospitality Industry, Music, Electric Engineering, Mechanics etc. - You have two exams: one at the end of Elementary School (which, really, is mostly for show) and one at the end of High School after five years. That's the big one. Grading is 60-100 (anything below that means you haven't passed, and if you're excelling you'll get a cum laude). Subject focus differs for every high school depending on your major, but the tests are the same for THE WHOLE COUNTRY: one Italian Literature part, one on your specialized subject (Maths for Scientific, Latin or Greek for classics, Foreign Language for Linguistics etc), one for 6 more subjects (a mixed test), and lastly an oral exam where a commission of 12 teachers (half yours, half from a different school) will quiz you on EVERY SUBJECT on the whole 5-year curriculum. You'll be graded on each of these and the final grade is based on a sum of the individual grades. - The MAIN difference between Italian and American schools is that normally (touch wood) you never ever ever have to worry about a mass shooting and don't have drills for it and don't worry about it at all. Hey US? FUCKING GET GUN CONTROL.
and there isn't a elementary school exam anymore, only at the end of middle school and high school. The latter has recently changed: one written test for italian (could be a short essay, a text analysis or another category that's basically another short essay), one for the specialisation, and the oral one. Now at the oral only two/three teachers are yours. They can ask anything from the 5th year, but you start with a random argument and must connect it to every subject. (they'll probably change it again)
Una persona non italiana da questo video non capirebbe quasi nulla sulla differenza tra scuole Io sarei un sacco infastidita se qualcuno mi chiedesse delle cose o informazioni, e continuasse ad interrompermi
Grazie per aver fatto chiarezza. Mi stavo innervosendo quando ho visto che il video era finito e non si era capito nulla delle vere differenze tra le nostre scuole. Copierò questo commento negli appunti e lo manderò quando fosse necessario a chi non sa com'è la nostra scuola. Ah aggiungerei solo: . - You don't get to choose your subjects at elementary and middle school, all schools have the same ones. The only choice you can make is when you switch from middle to high school, as you can choose what kind of high school you will attend. All the subjects are compulsory (except Religion), there are 10-13 subjects (depends on the kind of school). - During the last 3 years of high school you have to do "Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e l'Orientamento" (PCTO) (vecchia "Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro") which means you have to work during school time (first year) or during summer break (second year). The number of hours is different between Lyceums, Technical Institutes and Professionals ones. If you don't complete the number of hours required you cannot attend your final exam at the end of high school. You don't get paid for this. - While it's true that we only have an exam at the end of the last year of middle and high school we constantly get graded in all the subjects by having written and oral tests. From my experience I can guarantee we have at least one test per week, the teacher gets to choose how many tests and how often they will be made. The final grade is an average between all the grades for that subject. - A school year is divided into two sections, some schools make both of them last 4 months, other schools have a period of 3 months and a period of 5 months. At the end of each period we receive a report card with the final grade for that period for each subject. You also get a grade for behaviour. To pass the school year you must have all the final grades >=6 at the end of the second period. If you fail one to three subjects you'll have a written and oral test on that/those subject before the next school year starts, if you pass them you can go to the next school year. If you fail more subjects or you don't pass those tests you have to repeat the whole school year. If you have a grade
nope second amendment BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY but honestly a gun is more important than a lot of people think, and making it harder for bad people to get a gun will have little to no effect, and is just an annoyance for people who collect or are buying one to defend there house.
@@bendysquid9926 but why sould you need to defend your house that much? Here in Italy you can own a gun, but you need a permit and many tests. You don't need a semi automatic to defend your house, a pistol is fine
Raga non ha detto che studiamo fino allo sfinimento però!!! È che abbiamo anche le interrogazioni, tutti i giorni e almeno tre verifiche in una settimana!
E probabilmente va anche bene, almeno siamo acculturati. (Anche se ho sempre fatto tutti i compiti con piacere- tranne le versioni di latino- e sacrificato ogni pomeriggio per anni, la pensavo allo stesso modo. Ma 18 anni dopo aver conseguito la maturità ti dico che la nostra preparazione all'estero se la sognano. Loro si incentrano solo su argomenti specifici che desiderano approfondire, da noi si studia di tutto un po'!).
GoodMusicManiac999 Z Che dire, hai assolutamente ragione! Spero, però che tutta questa cultura ci servirà nel NOSTRO paese e non per darla via all’estero. Magari riuscire a trovare, anche se con molta fatica, un buon posto di lavoro in Italia e viverci serenamente. Il mio non era un commento che voleva andare contro la nostra educazione scolastica, volevo solo farlo sapere, visto che all’estero ci vedono tutti come dei pizzaioli che non sanno portare avanti un paese...
Jersey is Italy 2.0... except for language, culture, history, art, quality of food, style, cultural diversity, landscapes, geographical diversity... I think i'll continue with 1.0 version, thanks.
@@halotop7745 I have an uncle and some cousins living in NJ. Maybe my uncle, I could still consider him Italian but definitely not my cousins. Same with other cousins of mine living in Australia
Being Italian, I found this video quite confusing. I don't think it explained well how the high school system works. Anyway it was interesting watching this comparison
In America or Italy? In America you have Elementary school you start at 5 years old and go from Kindergarten to 5th grade (6 years), then you go to Middle School for 6th, 7th and 8th grade, then you go to High School for 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade. In High School you can choose some electives classes, but mostly you have a set curriculum for Math, English, History, Science, etc. You can sign up for sports (which you pay for) and have to bring lunch or buy lunch from Kindergarten through High School. There are extracurricular activities that you can participate in after school like drama, chess club, sports, band, etc. Buses take students to and from school even for after school activities. School lunches are horrible and tiny, not worth buying! The homeowner taxes pay for school, except for extracurricular after school things. If you want to go to college it is expensive and you have to take loans out to pay. Some people get scholarships, but only if they are really exceptional at something. Most do not have full scholarships so they still have to pay something. It takes 2 years for an Associate Degree, 4 years for a Bachelor degree, 6 years for a Masters degree and 8 years for a Doctorate degree.
I’m in America and we have an Italian exchange student! It’s going to be interesting to see what other people have to say about Italian schools! I’ve asked him loads of questions but every school is different. Like things you say happen in your school in New Jersey are so strange to me! (I’m in Tennessee.) American schools vary a lot as well.
You missed the difference in the marks: in italy grades vary from 1 to 10, no letters. 6 is the bare minimum, but usually teacher do not mark under 3 (or your medium score would be scrued for the rest of the year). Also at the end of the year you need to have all your subjecr media above 6, if you have up to 3 subject under the 6 threshold you have to study and have an extra exham in august or you cant pass the year. If you have more than 3 subject under 6 you automatically don t pass the year. Bonus notion: school is mandatory until 16 years old, i personally never had to do group project but depends on the teacher, the school time is divided in 2 quadrimester and 3 month of holidays. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: the italian school system is changing right now, there is a lot of confusion and uncertnaty so people living abroad and people you hear on youtube usually are not aware of this and what you hear is basically old info and incorrectness (even my infos might be wrong at this point) Byeee
I’ve lost count of how many times Evan interrupted Ellie, just let her speak, mate. I already know everything about American education because you had videos about it before, so the Italian part was the most interesting. I get that this is your sense of humour and that’s how you always act, and I usually enjoy it but today I just wanted to hear what she had to say but you kept talking over her or mocking her. Let your guests speak, please, I really love these series ❤️
And also no, we don't start university when we're 20, we start when we're 19. our last year of high school is the year we turn 19 but for example i was born in november so i was 18
Tbh she was so bad at explaining stuff, I’m from Italy and I feel like she didn’t portray the system in a clear way, but to be fair she had like 2 seconds to explain before he would interrupt her so...
Quando ho cominciato le elementari era buono, non come quello dell'asilo ma buono. Poi ha cambiato gestione e ha cominciato ad essere ripugnevole: pasta appiccicosa e sgrondante di olio, pizza fredda, mele marcire ecc. Alle medie ho cominciato ad andare a casa a mangiare
In Italy we had school on Saturdays in high school. School got out everyday at either 12 or 1 so we could go home to have lunch with family (in my town only private schools had cafeterias). We had catholic religion class for one hour per week, but there was no praying. There are way more high school types than she mentioned. We didn't really change classrooms except for gym because the teachers came to us. Teachers were not at all afraid to fail people. We had one guy who failed his second year three times. Most high schools are in the city center, so everyone has to bus in from the middle of nowhere. I had to catch the bus at 6:40 every morning it was awful.
She is so beautiful. She literally is what I aim to look like when I get ready in the mornings, even down to the outfit (pretty sure I have those same overalls)
why does he have that accent when he says italian words? you hear HER, we don't all have a southern accent. In Italy, in big cities you don't have the yellow bus, maybe she lived in a little one.
what southern italian girl cosentino s is totally different then barese,seriously we have tons of . I guess you prefer Berlusconi s accent or better Renzi s.
LauraDeFeh it depends on the school you go to. For example I don’t go to school on saturdays but my friends do, but it’s only bc we chose different schools
@@LauraDeFeh Universities are quite different, there are no lessons on Saturdays (and Sundays, of course) and if you're lucky you can even get another free day during the week
I LOVE how Ellie gets so worked up about our food and school 😂😂 it's the Italian pride in each of us that comes out whenever someone even tries to badmouth us
I'm italian and I have to say ellie wasn't specific about school and how complex it is (it wouldn't be possible to explain in such a short amount of time). First of all, kindergarten is a still an unknown world because you can take your kid there when they're 3 already, or even in their late 2! About the high school it works NOTHING like the British one. You do specialize but it's not specific (well) and every high school has the same basics like math and history which you cannot choose to skip (unlike Britain you can't choose anything). In the classic one you focus on classics lol like latin and greek, in the psychology one you do psychology and pedagogy but you also do latin! In the scientific one you do more math and physic also there are the 'professionals', which focus more on practical king of jobs like alberghiero, where you learn the fundament of working in a restaurant or the turistico, focused more on languages as well as receptionist jobs so italian school choices are almost infinite but that doesn't mean by choosing a path you eliminate subjects cause we all do the same stuff only some of us don't do Latin, others don't do 3 languages and so on.
In England, you specialise at age 13/14 for GCSEs which is when you still have core subjects you *have* to do (maths, English etc) but also drop some subjects and choose things like geography and art, and then at 16 you specialise even more for A Levels where you only have 3/4 subjects which can be any you want, so you don't have to do core subjects any more
And we start specialisation with GCSEs in years 10 & 11, though not to the same extent. I also had the option to swap out French or German for Spanish, in year 9. Where for years 7 & 8 I had to do both French and German. But I belaive the NC just required the school to teach us 2 languages years 7 - 9, and the exact options was down to what the school had qualified teachers for.
New Jersey did have huge Italian immigration from 1900-1930s , then another wave in the 60s. I grew up in a Italian neighborhood in the Sixties & Seventies( Northern Italian)where the older people spoke Italian but us children spoke in English knew a little Italian. Of course we went to school with children of other ethnic groups mostly Polish, Irish, Greek, German & Spanish , so we spoke in English to each other. The words he is talking about are from the Sicilians who speak a different dialect and had some wired words lol they came in larger numbers , so when people in US think of Italian food they usually think of Sicilian / Southern Italian food. Since there isn’t realty an American culture , People identify with their background , now with inter marriage & time that is all disappearing & we are now identifying as our race.
Religious singing in assemblies only happens in Church of England and Catholic schools. Most schools DONT have that like I've never seen praying in UK schools
I used to pray when I was at school. I went to a lot of different primary schools (we moved a lot) and we always preyed and sang hymns. I never went to Catholic school and my family aren't religious. I think it's less common to do so these days but between 1998-2003 (my primary school years) it was pretty standard.
I'd like to see an american vs american on something like schools. I know the comments always say how different public schools are depending on the part of the country (or even city) you live in, but I think it would be cool to see a video on it.
Jennifer Dally Right! I hate when its just one person because Evans school experience is 100% different than mine since New Jersey os nothing like Arizona. So it would be nice go have someone from the west coast, mid US and then Evan so we can have a broader range.
You also forgot to explain the evaluation method. The school year is divided into two four-month periods. We go to school 6 days a week and finish at 1 in the afternoon but the rest of the day must be devoted to study. For each subject we have about 1 written exam per month while for the oral exams you can be examined every day (so you always have to be prepared for the whole program of the year). In the oral exam, not only knowledge but also language properties, fluidity and form are evaluated. If your final average at the end of the year is less than 6 for a subject you are 'deferred' to the repair exams: during the summer period you have to recover the educational debt, otherwise you have to repeat the year. With more than 2 or 3 subjects
I feel you need to get someone from America that went to a Catholic school, because there is a huge population of private school Americans who have a completely different experience (praying everyday)
Shido Yeah! I went to Catholic school from 3-13. Now I go to an art school (charter school), and any time I talk to my friends who went to public school they usually get pretty shocked.
It’s weird that here in the UK (ok not Ireland) we’re brought up vaguely religious singing songs and saying prayers in assembly but once you’re an adult it’s just a personal thing rather than it interfering with laws and daily life, but in the US you supposedly have separation of church and state and don’t do religious stuff at school but then you manage to bring up religion all the bloody time. Weird 🤷♀️
for those who are commenting about the school on saturday situation: Generally public school has a duration of 30 hours a week (but for some highschool choises, especially the tecnical ones, they can be a few more), which are distributed between monday and saturday. For example in middle school i went from monday to friday from 8 am to 2 pm, now that I'm in highschool (i have chosen a classical type of school, which is usually the one where students go on saturdays rather than the scientific school) I go everyday from monday to saturday except for wednesday where we just do two ours of PE since our school doesn't have a gym so we have to go to another building (it's the only school I know about which has this problem, so it's not a typical Italian thing :p). Anyway the point is: it really depends on the school organisation (in some schools, since there are too many students, they have to go a day of the week in the afternoon instead of the morning, everyday a different class, so that there is enough space for everyone), the building and whatever is better for the students, sooo it really depends, but we all study the same amount of ours.
Io ho finito la scuola un po' di tempo fa, ma non ho mai mangiato a mensa, né alle elementari, né alle medie né alle superiori... Al massimo mangiavo la pizzetta a ricreazione al bar della scuola 😂
Country: Estonia Kindergarten: 1st three years is lastesõim, then 3yrs to 6/7 yrs old, you go to kindergarten. School: Primary+ secondary is our 'basic school' which is grades 1 through 9. High school is not compulsory, three years so grades 10-12. Languages: English starts from either kindergarten or one of the first few grades of primary school (depends on school and kindergarten) and up until 12th grade. Estonian (native) since kindergarten/primary - 12th grade. Russian 6th-12th grade. Highschool comes, you choose between French or Germany, to study one for three years. Misc: First few grades might start school at 9, but it mostly starts at 8. Primary school finishes earlier, at around 1 or 2 o'clock, but a bunch of kids also have after school stuff in school. At some point the days get longer, up to 4 o'clock at times, even longer if you have choir or anything else like that (robotics, theatre club, arts etc.). Exams in English, Maths and Estonian at the end of grade 9, then comes first big graduation. Grade 10, one exam (we had oral literature), grade 11 is research (fun times...) and grade 12 is, again, the three exams plus one you choose yourself (Top three were history, arts history and society studies; I chose art). After grade 9 you can choose either high or vocational school. After 12th it's vocational, college or uni. Lunch was free, but we had these paper ticket things, then upgraded to our student passes, which by then went from paper to plastic, like actual cards. A beep, and you got your food. Yum. Or you bought shit from canteen, or got your own food. Edit: some schools have legit school buses, most in-city local ones don't. Plus I lived like two bus stops away, so xD
In one (British) assembly we had, the head spoke about how people tend to look like their dogs. Other favourites were ‘are you a radiator or a drain’ and one where the head spoke about following the Rock on instagram and her dogs account. Also I can’t imagine only starting school when you’re 7, I was 4 when I started...
Every day in my primary school we used to have to stand up, hold a candle (with a protective cover on it) and say ‘Jesus is the light of the world’. We weren’t a particularly religious school either....
Io lavoro in una scuola in Lombardia, NESSUNO ha la mensa gratis, a meno che non abbia problemi economici seri e quindi venga pagata dal Comune. Ha detto una cagata pazzesca. Inoltre non ha specificato che se escludiamo le scuole materne e una parte delle scuole elementari (dipende se sono a tempo pieno o no), non non abbiamo mense a scuola. Boh, la ragazza ha detto un po' di cazzate qua e là...
bah da me in Valle d'Aosta non abbiamo la mensa gratis, ma ci danno queste specie di carte che possiamo usare in tutti i bar vicini per prendere del cibo con tipo 3 e 50 gratis.
La mensa gratis ce l'hanno solo le famiglie con seri problemi economici, tutti gli altri pagano, eccome se pagano! Magari hai sconti se hai un certo numero di figli, un reddito basso o lavori per il Comune o per certe ditte, ma ti puoi scordare il cibo gratis. L'Italia non è abbastanza ricca da mettere a tavola tutti i suoi studenti e certi comuni non hanno manco i soldi per pagare gli stipendi ai loro dipendenti o per asfaltare le strade, figurarsi se pagano il pranzo ai bambini a scuola! Anche io lavoro in una scuola e i genitori che non possono permettersi la mensa portano a casa a mangiare i propri figli alle 12,30 e li riportano a scuola per le lezioni del pomeriggio. Gli unici che hanno le mense pagate sono coloro in mano agli assistenti sociali (aka famiglie con bambini H, problemi di maltrattamenti famigliari e separazioni difficili, stranieri appena arrivati in Italia, senza reddito e con bambini da alfabetizzare, ecc), gli altri devono pagare la loro quota o portare i figli a casa.
I am British. In my school, KS1 (ages 4-7) had assembly in the morning and KS2 (ages 7-11) had assembly in the afternoon. On Monday we watched Newsround. On Tuesday we sung (both Christian and non-Christian songs). On Wednesday someone from the local church would come talk to us about Christianity. On Thursday a random teacher would run assembly and talk about something random. On Friday we would have a whole school assembly (KS1 and KS2) and that was when classes would perform their assemblies (if they had one to perform).
In England, you don't do prayers or assemblies everyday in every school. In Primary schools u have assembly most days but u only pray in religious ones. And in secondary school u only have assembly like once or twice a week and again only pray and sing hymns if u go to a religious school.
Coralie Young my school wasn’t religious but all of our songs were: Noah’s ark, he’s got the whole world in his hands, something about a silver trumpet etc
My schools weren't particularly religious but in the lower years of primary school (infants school) we had to pray before lunch every day and had lots of hymms and we had assemblies almost every day throughout primary school. In High School we only had to pray if a specific teacher was leading assembly and he made us 😂
I went to a very Catholic Primary School since my parents are Italian and I had to pray at least twice and day and mass I think once a week. Hymns also were sung every single assembly and you’d get into trouble if you didn’t sing along. I had friends who went to non-religious schools and they had to pray sometimes too but nowhere near as much as me. I don’t think prayer should be done in schools that are non-religious and religious schools should give children the choice to join in or not.
@@pestobea i had friends who went to catholic schools and i don't know if they had to do more praying but they did have to go in more around easter and have big assemblies and things. I had one kid in my class in high school who didn't come to our Religious Education lessons because he was Jehovah's Witness. But those lessons were never like one religion it was about lots of them. So interesting to hear about different places. American school sounds scary from what Evan says sometimes 😂
I just watched the British bit and we choose options in high school in year 9 or 8 depending on the school so I chose in year eight and I was 13 some people were 12
My school in Britain is mainly paid lunches but if you’re on benefits or something you get it free. Our school buses are free but you have to register for it. If you live over 3 miles from the school you can get a bus pass, or if the walking route is too dangerous you qualify
I go to a British school, yes we do have assemblies every day and we read our school prayer. It lasts about 1 minute. We never really sing songs about religion, Christianity etc but we would learn about religion every week. I hope this helps someone
She was way too polite! I would’ve lost my shit if he kept interrupting me while i was explaining things with dry jokes to compensate with his insecurities
At my school in Maine, USA. In the winter people ski, snowmobile, take a bus, or drive in a car to school. When the snow is gone, people drive in their car, walk, bike, or take a bus to school.
@@evan sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. it's your channel, so Go crazy ;) is just a feature I can not see the benefit from. I was excited to watch this new video but then I'll have to wait an hour and that is just meh. I'd rather just see the video in my abo box an hour later.
I've taught in various schools in Italy, so many kids had roller backpacks. I was surprised how much stuff the kids would take to school, the bags weighed so much! They only had 5 classes but they must have had 2-3 books per class, it was so unnecessary. Primary school was the worst, I would teach kids who would have 3 pencil cases! We weren't allowed to bring our own pencil case in primary school.
It does make alot of pressure though. It's not so much like trying something and more like almost having to choose your whole life at age 14 with GCSE choices because you can't really go back and change things if it turns out you don't like what you chose
Schools in Italy is like going to work.Take your stuff in the morning, get there, sit in your desk (which is personal), follow the classes and then leave. Your classmates are the same all the time just like your coworkers are. Either the school will have canteen or not (mine didn't but they all do in the primary and secondary schools). It's not a proper campus where you spend most of your time and do different things. Students usually leave as soon as the last class ends. In terms of quality of educations, I think it's alright but I guess it's up to chance. You have no control over the teachers. If you don't like them, suck it up or change school or you can change class but that means to change all your classmates which means you will change also all your other teachers (so ultimately it's a difficult choice to make). But it's public and free but as always, public services come with trade offs
Just to expand on teachers thing, the school is not designed for students only (that's how it should be) but also on teachers. It's yet another corporation/union of workers (Italy runs on corporation/unions) with little competition, safe jobs albeit not so well paid (because the italian state would go bankrupt otherwise). Italians like safe jobs though (even if not so well paid) because it's difficult to have one in the first place
I live in Ocean County NJ and for high school we don’t have transportation, you either walk, get a ride from your friends or your parents, or you drive yourself.
I'm from Jersey too, and about the buses, they're free if you live more than 2 miles from the school. Anything closer you need to walk, or drive a car.
It's interesting that Ellie mentioned Classic A level (Ginnasio or Gymnasium as it is supposed to be a Gym for the real deal) but didn't bring up we actually study Latin and ancient Greek. Latin is also a common subject in Scientific and technical gymnasium (or A level if you prefer). Most of the Italian students consider these to be pretty useless (some consider them to be interesting) but they're definitely among the most hated subjects. I find them to be pretty cool in your adult life while traveling across Europe and visiting historical sites.
Also at my college they sell cake for break times in the morning. People used to ask why we didn’t have lockers in secondary school but I think in some schools in the UK, Northern Ireland they have them
Some schools in Italy have what we call "rientro", when we have 3 more hours of lessons for 2 times a week, usually starts after lunch and ends at 5-6 p.m. You can have it during middle school or also during highschool (sometimes it starts after the 2nd year of HS because they change slme subjects and need more hours) Also, our the first weeks of school doesn't have a stable timetable of rhe lessons, we usually change teachers orders for a couple of weeks before we get the stable one. (Those weeks are hell) Also not every school has a canteen, mine sent a janitor in every classes to collect the money and then ordered pizza for lunch. Or usually we take a stop to buy our food (usually a sandwich with ham) in the nearest supermarket from school.
One of my primary school teachers were Italian and she told us that if Italians had their arms cut off, they would not be able to talk since they use them too much🤷♂️🤷♂️
I am Italian and I have 33h per week and 23 subjects at ITIS (State Industrial Technical Institute). 3 days I have 5h, the other 3 I have 6h. Our school (1800 stidents +200 teachers) a is near a high school (1200 students + 150 teachers) so public trasportation have a specific school stop. There are 3 busses which arrive specifically to bring students to the train station ( far about 15 min walk).
How did you get anything done in half an hour for gym? Don't get me wrong I'd have freakin loved shorter gym/PE lessons...but we had to get changed in and out of our uniforms at the start and end of each lesson...go wherever we had to go..be told what we were doing...do it. If we'd have had half an hour we'd have gotten changed...been told "this is a volleyball" and gone to change back again and still been late for next lesson 😂
about lunch: i attended primary and middle school at a catholic private school and we had to pay a pretty high tuition. lunch was an extra €7 a meal and we “only” got it when we had school in the afternoon (once a week in primary and twice in middle school). of course you could have lunch at school every day if you wanted to, but for 5 days of school we had it would have been €35 a week just for your lunches (and the food wasn’t even that good). + in middle school you could leave the building and have lunch wherever you wanted to even when there was classes in the afternoon. i’m now in public (state) high school and my school doesn’t even have a canteen. they built the school in 2011 and when they built it the schedule was different: we went to school on saturdays - so everyday we got out of school at like 1:30 pm (12:30 on saturdays) and went home (or wherever we wanted to) for lunch. now we don’t go to school on saturdays anymore: we start school at 7:55 am and get out at 2:05 pm. we have a 10 minute break (10:25-10:35) and a 20 minute break (12:15-12:35) during which we can eat lunch if we want to. people who live far away from the school usually bring some food from home or either buy a sandwich/croissant (yes, croissant) from the “snack bar” (which is literally 2 tables with food on them (in containers lol)) or some crap from the vending machines that we have. as of today, with this timetable/schedule, it makes absolutely no sense for our school not to have a canteen. didn’t read this over so i apologise for any mistakes and please bear with me cuz: i’m italian
I’ve gone to school in two different states in the U.S. and honestly they’re both very different. In my small town in texas we were given free lunches. We had gym every day. School started at 6:50am and ended at 4:00 pm. There was school buses that picked us up and it was free. And we had 7 classes a day for half a semester and for the second semester we had a separate 7 classes that were a different subject. We said the pledge to the American flag and state flag every morning. In the second state, Iowa. School was only from 7:00-2:50. We had to pay for lunch and had to pay for public transportation. Gym was every other day. We had 10 classes, 8 subjects that we would alternate days on, each set of 5 was every other day. They never once said the pledge. Also the education standards are very different. Texas students tend to be held at a higher standard. Again I’m sure not all Texas school are ran the same so don’t quote me on that.
I think another one of the main differences is that, from what I understand, in the US the students move classes for each period, while in Italy the teachers move around classes. So you have the same classmates throughout high school (and the same goes for elementary and middle school)
We didn't move classes until middle school. In primary we had the same teacher for all the subjects. Then in Elementary we had teachers that changed rooms. Then in middle and high school, the students move from class to class.
I am in secondary school in England. Primary - We had 1 assembly a week where we had to pray. I was not christian so i just sat there praying in Hindi. (I am a hindu) But they expected all of us to pray yet recognised the other religions which makes no sense as they did a christian prayer. Also at easter and christmas every year they invited a priest to talk about christianity except all students had to be there. We had learned this in R.E /R.S already. Secondary - 1 assembly a week but thankfully no prayers.
Weird .. that would never have been allowed in an American public school.. a private Christian school maybe but if someone tried that in public there would be a showdown
Another thing worth mentioning is that the high school grading system is different here in Italy: we don’t use letters, only numbers from 1 to 10 (no one actually gets 1 though, 2 is considered the lowest for some reason)!
Italy's school system is similar to Norway's. Kindergarden here starts at between 3-10 months and the year you turn 6, bc no matter what part of the year you're born you start school the year you turn 6. And high school in Norway is pretty similar from what she described it, except we choose at 16.
TIL Italian school system has some similarities with the Swedish school system. We finnish "highschool" at 19 as well (well at least if your birthday is before you graduate). And the last 3 years is our "highschool" where we choose which school to go to and what branch we want to study, like e.g. thechnical, social studies, music, science e.c.t.
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She didn't say the most important thing: we go to school on Saturdays.
Edit: ok I get it not every Italian went to school on Saturday but most of us did, now ande tutti in mona
WHAT!?
She did when saying about PE lessons
@@evan Yeah, it sucks! It was mostly in high school though. Well, at least in my experience. In some regions, it applies to middle-schoolers too
We do indeed.
not all schools have saturdays, mine doesn’t
1) In Italian schools we don't sing our anthem in the morning, we don't say some pledge and we don't pray, never. Every school has 2 hours of history of religions but you can choose if you wanna take the "class", i didn't. The other courses are mandatory, all of 11-12 courses.
2) 8 a.m to 1 p.m is the regular schedule, some schools aren't open on saturday and some are, for example i've always had school on saturdays, from kindergarden to highschool. Usually if you don't have school on saturdays is because you go out later the other days of the week, like 4-5 p.m.
3) There are no sports in italian school, we have 2-4 hours of physical education and the sports are chosen by the teacher, we could play volleyball, football (soccer), tennis, doing exercises...but we usually don't have tournaments or huge thing such as U.s schools. If we want to do some sport we have to do it in out free time, outside school time.
4) The choice of school at 13-14 is true but the first 2 years of highschool are usually similar for all the students because we study general subjects like italian, history, geography, science, physics, chemistry ecc...after these 2 years we need to choose fo real (for example if you chose the technical school after 2 years you must choose between various major courses such as computer technology, geometry, chemistry, electronics, economy, ecc...)
5) The grades are usually given after tests which can be written or oral. After the 5 years we have the last exam which has 3 major written tests in 3 different days (6 hours of italian, 6-8 hours of your fundamental course, and 1.30 hour for a mix of all the subjects) and then one oral exam of 5-6 subjects where you usually need to bring your thesis made during the last year.
oiurehj we don’t pray in the us except if it’s a private religious school
Sfortunatamente la tesina non si fa più. Hanno cambiato tutta la maturità 🙄
@@federicofernandez6386 But you say the Pledge of Alliance everyday right? I don't know it for real, so it's a real question...
@@noemibonvicini9525 Pur avendo 26 anni mi hai fatto sentire vecchio...mi sa che devo aggiungere "quando andavo a scuola io" allora...
oiurehj I can’t talk for the whole country but we don’t say it in my school
i live in the uk but i have a friend who lives in italy and she said they don’t move between classes? so the students stay in one seat all day and the different teachers came to them, i find this so interesting
Mimi Jenkins yes, we just have a fixed class, with the same people, everyday allday, and the teachers move from a classroom to the next one at the end of the lesson, (usually every hour, but sometimes we have three quarters of an hour or two hours). Hope i was helpful 🤗
It's the same in Mexico.
Same in germany
Well, in Italy I think that just in a few school you have to move between classes. In the art high school, the one that I'm attending, we change classes mostly every hour, but because as an art school we have a lot of laboratories that can't be used as a normal classroom
Yep. The teachers come to us.
I’m an italian student going to high school and I wanted to add that basically every high school in italy doesn’t have canteens, we end at 1 or 2 PM, so we usually have lunch at home, even if with public transport we arrive even at 3PM
I arrived home at 4 :( and I still had to have lunch
3pm? How far are you from the school?
ARX 351 Some people live more than an hour away from their school AND we have to use public transportation which means sometimes you have to wait a long time before you can get on a bus + the bus doesn't stop in front of your house so you have to walk from the bus station to your house
Raffaella Giulia Lulli I got out at 2:20 and still had lunch...
ARX 351 oh 13km
I look like a very angry emotional human in this video, but at least my hands are mostly still!
i thought you seemed perfectly normal 😊
I did not at all get an "angry emotional human" vibe from you here, and it's my first time seeing you, so don't worry. :) I've seen quite a few people react like you have here. :)
You don’t seem angry and emotional. The video makes it seem like Evan is intentionally making fun of you. Makes him look like a bit of a jerk.
You don't look angry at all, don't worry 💞
Awesome video I thought you two looked cute together there's some definite chemistry there
Did anyone else notice Ellie said she had gym on Saturdays? Why wasn’t this elaborated upon? School on Saturdays? WhaT
Yeah, here in Italy is pretty common and it's terrible lol
How did I miss that even in the edit!!
Kind of knew that, then again I did study Italian in school
Well it was a common thing a long time ago in Switzerland and also in France
Evan Edinger I don’t know man... ur slackin
This was so poorly done because he keeps interrupting her
- We go to school on Saturdays, and do 5/6 hours a day (no afternoons!)
- Not every school has lunch or a cafeteria.
- One hour of religion every week, unless you opt out. Only two ours of PE, but no official school's sports team and no one gives a shit about sports really.
- We don't have lockers. We carry all the books/notebooks we need each day in our backpack.
- During my time (I think this changed in the last few years?) at elementary school we wore what looked like a white (girls) or blue (boys) lab coat/smock over our clothes. After that, there's no school uniform.
- Absolutely no pledge nor prayer, what the fuck.
- Grades are in numbers (1 to 10). If at the end of the year you can't reach an average of 6, you might have to repeat the year (you fail a class, are asked to pass an exam during the Summer. If you can't fix your grades, you'll repeat the year as many times as needed)
- We never leave the classroom. Kids in the same year in a school are divided into 'sections' (each has a different letter of the alphabet, 1A, 1B, 1C etc) and your class group stays the same throughout the years in a school. Normally between 18-24 kids. Those are your people, and sometimes you get to mingle with other students during field trips but they'll have different teachers. Most teachers are bound to one/two sections.
- Traditionally, you have small field trips during the year and one BIG longer trip (3-5 days). Last year of high school is when the big trip gets to be abroad, normally.
- There's two types of high schools: Lyceums and Technical Institutes. The former offer a more intellectual education, and you can choose between: Classics (focused on literature and the humanities, you study ancient Greek as a defining subject), Scientific (focused on scientific subjects - you still do philosophy, history, literature and latin the focus is on Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics), Linguistic (focused on foreign languages - you study 2 or 3 of them), Social Sciences (no Latin or advanced sciences, but you do Psychology and Sociology). Technical Institutes vary depending on what you're interested in - could be Artistic, focused on the Service and Hospitality Industry, Music, Electric Engineering, Mechanics etc.
- You have two exams: one at the end of Elementary School (which, really, is mostly for show) and one at the end of High School after five years. That's the big one. Grading is 60-100 (anything below that means you haven't passed, and if you're excelling you'll get a cum laude). Subject focus differs for every high school depending on your major, but the tests are the same for THE WHOLE COUNTRY: one Italian Literature part, one on your specialized subject (Maths for Scientific, Latin or Greek for classics, Foreign Language for Linguistics etc), one for 6 more subjects (a mixed test), and lastly an oral exam where a commission of 12 teachers (half yours, half from a different school) will quiz you on EVERY SUBJECT on the whole 5-year curriculum. You'll be graded on each of these and the final grade is based on a sum of the individual grades.
- The MAIN difference between Italian and American schools is that normally (touch wood) you never ever ever have to worry about a mass shooting and don't have drills for it and don't worry about it at all. Hey US? FUCKING GET GUN CONTROL.
and there isn't a elementary school exam anymore, only at the end of middle school and high school.
The latter has recently changed: one written test for italian (could be a short essay, a text analysis or another category that's basically another short essay), one for the specialisation, and the oral one. Now at the oral only two/three teachers are yours. They can ask anything from the 5th year, but you start with a random argument and must connect it to every subject. (they'll probably change it again)
Una persona non italiana da questo video non capirebbe quasi nulla sulla differenza tra scuole
Io sarei un sacco infastidita se qualcuno mi chiedesse delle cose o informazioni, e continuasse ad interrompermi
Grazie per aver fatto chiarezza. Mi stavo innervosendo quando ho visto che il video era finito e non si era capito nulla delle vere differenze tra le nostre scuole. Copierò questo commento negli appunti e lo manderò quando fosse necessario a chi non sa com'è la nostra scuola. Ah aggiungerei solo:
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- You don't get to choose your subjects at elementary and middle school, all schools have the same ones. The only choice you can make is when you switch from middle to high school, as you can choose what kind of high school you will attend. All the subjects are compulsory (except Religion), there are 10-13 subjects (depends on the kind of school).
- During the last 3 years of high school you have to do "Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e l'Orientamento" (PCTO) (vecchia "Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro") which means you have to work during school time (first year) or during summer break (second year). The number of hours is different between Lyceums, Technical Institutes and Professionals ones. If you don't complete the number of hours required you cannot attend your final exam at the end of high school. You don't get paid for this.
- While it's true that we only have an exam at the end of the last year of middle and high school we constantly get graded in all the subjects by having written and oral tests. From my experience I can guarantee we have at least one test per week, the teacher gets to choose how many tests and how often they will be made. The final grade is an average between all the grades for that subject.
- A school year is divided into two sections, some schools make both of them last 4 months, other schools have a period of 3 months and a period of 5 months. At the end of each period we receive a report card with the final grade for that period for each subject. You also get a grade for behaviour. To pass the school year you must have all the final grades >=6 at the end of the second period. If you fail one to three subjects you'll have a written and oral test on that/those subject before the next school year starts, if you pass them you can go to the next school year. If you fail more subjects or you don't pass those tests you have to repeat the whole school year. If you have a grade
nope second amendment BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
but honestly a gun is more important than a lot of people think, and making it harder for bad people to get a gun will have little to no effect, and is just an annoyance for people who collect or are buying one to defend there house.
@@bendysquid9926 but why sould you need to defend your house that much? Here in Italy you can own a gun, but you need a permit and many tests.
You don't need a semi automatic to defend your house, a pistol is fine
Raga non ha detto che studiamo fino allo sfinimento però!!! È che abbiamo anche le interrogazioni, tutti i giorni e almeno tre verifiche in una settimana!
Min Yoongi i coreani stanno messi peggio
E probabilmente va anche bene, almeno siamo acculturati.
(Anche se ho sempre fatto tutti i compiti con piacere- tranne le versioni di latino- e sacrificato ogni pomeriggio per anni, la pensavo allo stesso modo. Ma 18 anni dopo aver conseguito la maturità ti dico che la nostra preparazione all'estero se la sognano. Loro si incentrano solo su argomenti specifici che desiderano approfondire, da noi si studia di tutto un po'!).
GoodMusicManiac999 Z Che dire, hai assolutamente ragione! Spero, però che tutta questa cultura ci servirà nel NOSTRO paese e non per darla via all’estero. Magari riuscire a trovare, anche se con molta fatica, un buon posto di lavoro in Italia e viverci serenamente. Il mio non era un commento che voleva andare contro la nostra educazione scolastica, volevo solo farlo sapere, visto che all’estero ci vedono tutti come dei pizzaioli che non sanno portare avanti un paese...
BeautybyS a loro non possiamo biasimarli...
@@ariannapomella7456
In effetti, che tristezza. Ma dai che forse incomincia ad essere la volta buona!
Jersey is Italy 2.0... except for language, culture, history, art, quality of food, style, cultural diversity, landscapes, geographical diversity... I think i'll continue with 1.0 version, thanks.
Valerio Alberti exactly I was born in NJ everything he said isn’t even true. Lol.
@@halotop7745 I have an uncle and some cousins living in NJ. Maybe my uncle, I could still consider him Italian but definitely not my cousins. Same with other cousins of mine living in Australia
Being Italian, I found this video quite confusing. I don't think it explained well how the high school system works. Anyway it was interesting watching this comparison
In America or Italy? In America you have Elementary school you start at 5 years old and go from Kindergarten to 5th grade (6 years), then you go to Middle School for 6th, 7th and 8th grade, then you go to High School for 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade. In High School you can choose some electives classes, but mostly you have a set curriculum for Math, English, History, Science, etc. You can sign up for sports (which you pay for) and have to bring lunch or buy lunch from Kindergarten through High School. There are extracurricular activities that you can participate in after school like drama, chess club, sports, band, etc. Buses take students to and from school even for after school activities. School lunches are horrible and tiny, not worth buying! The homeowner taxes pay for school, except for extracurricular after school things. If you want to go to college it is expensive and you have to take loans out to pay. Some people get scholarships, but only if they are really exceptional at something. Most do not have full scholarships so they still have to pay something. It takes 2 years for an Associate Degree, 4 years for a Bachelor degree, 6 years for a Masters degree and 8 years for a Doctorate degree.
lamp 81 I when I lived in Chicago we didn’t have to pay for lunch
Finally some Italian content
Yasss!
Ugo
@@knownnuisance7512 siamo nel 2019 per favore, lascia quel poro cristo all'anno passato
@@mtteo99 ma lho scritto 12 ore fa
@@knownnuisance7512 12+5(ore fa dal commento)=17 siamo il 2 gennaio, è il 2019 da più di 24 ore
I’m in America and we have an Italian exchange student! It’s going to be interesting to see what other people have to say about Italian schools! I’ve asked him loads of questions but every school is different. Like things you say happen in your school in New Jersey are so strange to me! (I’m in Tennessee.) American schools vary a lot as well.
I'm from Mexico and in the grade below me there is an Italian student. He learned spanish very quickly. I guess it was easy for him.
@Crystal Love they both come from latin that's why.
You missed the difference in the marks: in italy grades vary from 1 to 10, no letters. 6 is the bare minimum, but usually teacher do not mark under 3 (or your medium score would be scrued for the rest of the year).
Also at the end of the year you need to have all your subjecr media above 6, if you have up to 3 subject under the 6 threshold you have to study and have an extra exham in august or you cant pass the year. If you have more than 3 subject under 6 you automatically don t pass the year.
Bonus notion: school is mandatory until 16 years old, i personally never had to do group project but depends on the teacher, the school time is divided in 2 quadrimester and 3 month of holidays.
MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: the italian school system is changing right now, there is a lot of confusion and uncertnaty so people living abroad and people you hear on youtube usually are not aware of this and what you hear is basically old info and incorrectness (even my infos might be wrong at this point)
Byeee
Lo mettono eccome meno di 3... il mio professore di matematica ha messo un sacco di 1 quest'anno
@@mr.g812 pure il mio ha Messo 1- a una hahaaha
Io ho avuto 2 e mezzo alla verifica di chimica 🤣🤣🤣
Un compagno di mio fratello ha preso 0+ in fisica, verifica in bianco con il + d'incoraggiamento
@@silsail Avevo un insegnante che andava da -20 a 10 vedi te.
I’ve lost count of how many times Evan interrupted Ellie, just let her speak, mate. I already know everything about American education because you had videos about it before, so the Italian part was the most interesting. I get that this is your sense of humour and that’s how you always act, and I usually enjoy it but today I just wanted to hear what she had to say but you kept talking over her or mocking her. Let your guests speak, please, I really love these series ❤️
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8:39 "Ma they're big!!(the buses)" Quando l'italiano ti entra a caso nell'inglese Hahahaha
And also no, we don't start university when we're 20, we start when we're 19. our last year of high school is the year we turn 19 but for example i was born in november so i was 18
classical: PSYCHOLOGY
LOL WHAT
it's latin and ancient greek
Penso si riferisse ai licei con "classical" quindi anche allo psicopedagogico
Per non parlare del fatto che ha messo le lingue al tecnico, io conosco solo licei linguistici
@@evalight4317 Dipende, a ragioneria fanno 2 lingue mi pare però solo fino alla seconda
@@evalight4317 alla scientifico se prendi l'indirizzo linguistico fai anche diverse lingue... di solito cambiano da scuola a scuola i programmi ecc
Did you really start school at 7? I'm Italian and every person I know started at 5/6 years old
I'm italian and I started at 7 too.
I started at 6, as far as I know now kids start at 5 1/2
magari intendono scuola anche l'asilo nido?
@@helltitan5670 ma a 7 anni non vai all'asilo nido😂
Nina BubbleTea c'è gente come ellie che ha scritto che a scuola ci va da quando ha 2 anni e mezzo, quindi conta anche l'asilo per loro
Tbh she was so bad at explaining stuff, I’m from Italy and I feel like she didn’t portray the system in a clear way, but to be fair she had like 2 seconds to explain before he would interrupt her so...
Ce n'hai per tutti oh
Italiani, FACCIAMOCI SENTIRE!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Io ho detestato il cibo in mensa😅
W l'Italia 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Adesso vivo in Ingilterra pero quando vivevo in Italia adoravo il cibo nella mia mensa😲
Pixie Love25 sarà stata solo la mia che faceva schifetto allora🤪🧐😐
Ugo
Quando ho cominciato le elementari era buono, non come quello dell'asilo ma buono. Poi ha cambiato gestione e ha cominciato ad essere ripugnevole: pasta appiccicosa e sgrondante di olio, pizza fredda, mele marcire ecc. Alle medie ho cominciato ad andare a casa a mangiare
You should do this with a norwegian or finnish person! I'd be really intrested to hear about their school system compared to the us!
I’m Norwegian I wanna be in the video
or a danish person. I have a cousin who's my age from Denmark and I would want to see the differences his schooling and mine
As a Norwegian, I agree with this. We love that there's no tuition for our uni. Should be like that in the rest of the world.
Spoiler alert: it’s a better education system than ours.
Would love to join for the Finnish episode! The best school, of course.
Did she say Saturday? School on Saturday?
I cant speak for Italy, but my Mom went to school in Austria and she has school on Saturdays (but only primary school and every day finished at noon)
It depends on the school, but yes, in Italy it's pretty common to go to school on Saturday (I do).
Arianna me tooo!
My school used to do that but now they just changed to way longer days 8 o’clock to 5 o clock.
My sisters don't go to school on Saturday in Italy. And while I'm in America I take finals for all my classes. Each school is a tad different.
She's so charismatic! I hope you guys can collab again, this was so fun!
Brits also have to chose their GCSES at 14
I took my Religion exam a year early as well as we started the course in year 9.
we have to pick ours in year 8
I chose at 13 in year 8
wtf why did everyone pick their gcses in year 8 your schools were whack
I chose mine in Form 3 and do them in form 4 and 5
My North-East Italian self finally feels represented
Cat Londero viva il nord est!!!
É una merda
Nick11625 EEEEEEEE! CIAO!
In Italy we had school on Saturdays in high school. School got out everyday at either 12 or 1 so we could go home to have lunch with family (in my town only private schools had cafeterias). We had catholic religion class for one hour per week, but there was no praying. There are way more high school types than she mentioned. We didn't really change classrooms except for gym because the teachers came to us. Teachers were not at all afraid to fail people. We had one guy who failed his second year three times. Most high schools are in the city center, so everyone has to bus in from the middle of nowhere. I had to catch the bus at 6:40 every morning it was awful.
She is so beautiful. She literally is what I aim to look like when I get ready in the mornings, even down to the outfit (pretty sure I have those same overalls)
why does he have that accent when he says italian words? you hear HER, we don't all have a southern accent.
In Italy, in big cities you don't have the yellow bus, maybe she lived in a little one.
Not familiar with him, but based on his pronunciation of "aglio" he doesn't know Italian, nor how to pronounce it.
So that's why.
It’s a very stereotypical Italian accent, he doesn’t know any Italian
what southern italian girl cosentino s is totally different then barese,seriously we have tons of . I guess you prefer Berlusconi s accent or better Renzi s.
Do American vs Polish school it will be really interesting te see the diffrence
did she say that she had gym on Saturdays? There is school on freaking Saturdays????
LauraDeFeh it depends on the school you go to. For example I don’t go to school on saturdays but my friends do, but it’s only bc we chose different schools
@@ThePhantomofBooktube what about universities? I am considering Italy as my Erasmus semester choice!
@@ThePhantomofBooktube I am in 2nd year of my business and economics studies. Thanks for the info!
@@LauraDeFeh Universities are quite different, there are no lessons on Saturdays (and Sundays, of course) and if you're lucky you can even get another free day during the week
we (in germany) have either school on saturday or in the afternoon.
Here in Finland we also have free food in school until University/College. School is also free for everyone, even University/College.
Ranedom that’s so good as something I’m hoping happened
Finland has the best everything lol
Do you also get free booze? I have never seen so many drunk people in my life as in Helsinki 😱.
@@franzbiberkopf9179 people have to pay for alcohol but yeah unfortunately a lot of us use it a lot
I LOVE how Ellie gets so worked up about our food and school 😂😂 it's the Italian pride in each of us that comes out whenever someone even tries to badmouth us
I'm italian and I have to say ellie wasn't specific about school and how complex it is (it wouldn't be possible to explain in such a short amount of time). First of all, kindergarten is a still an unknown world because you can take your kid there when they're 3 already, or even in their late 2! About the high school it works NOTHING like the British one. You do specialize but it's not specific (well) and every high school has the same basics like math and history which you cannot choose to skip (unlike Britain you can't choose anything). In the classic one you focus on classics lol like latin and greek, in the psychology one you do psychology and pedagogy but you also do latin! In the scientific one you do more math and physic also there are the 'professionals', which focus more on practical king of jobs like alberghiero, where you learn the fundament of working in a restaurant or the turistico, focused more on languages as well as receptionist jobs so italian school choices are almost infinite but that doesn't mean by choosing a path you eliminate subjects cause we all do the same stuff only some of us don't do Latin, others don't do 3 languages and so on.
In England, you specialise at age 13/14 for GCSEs which is when you still have core subjects you *have* to do (maths, English etc) but also drop some subjects and choose things like geography and art, and then at 16 you specialise even more for A Levels where you only have 3/4 subjects which can be any you want, so you don't have to do core subjects any more
Also A Levels are 2 years, but AS level is 1 year sometimes with the A2 the following year to make it A Level equivalent
A levels are two years
And we start specialisation with GCSEs in years 10 & 11, though not to the same extent.
I also had the option to swap out French or German for Spanish, in year 9. Where for years 7 & 8 I had to do both French and German. But I belaive the NC just required the school to teach us 2 languages years 7 - 9, and the exact options was down to what the school had qualified teachers for.
New Jersey did have huge Italian immigration from 1900-1930s , then another wave in the 60s.
I grew up in a Italian neighborhood in the Sixties & Seventies( Northern Italian)where the older people spoke Italian but us children spoke in English knew a little Italian. Of course we went to school with children of other ethnic groups mostly Polish, Irish, Greek, German & Spanish , so we spoke in English to each other.
The words he is talking about are from the Sicilians who speak a different dialect and had some wired words lol they came in larger numbers , so when people in US think of Italian food they usually think of Sicilian / Southern Italian food.
Since there isn’t realty an American culture , People identify with their background , now with inter marriage & time that is all disappearing & we are now identifying as our race.
Religious singing in assemblies only happens in Church of England and Catholic schools. Most schools DONT have that like I've never seen praying in UK schools
I used to pray when I was at school. I went to a lot of different primary schools (we moved a lot) and we always preyed and sang hymns. I never went to Catholic school and my family aren't religious. I think it's less common to do so these days but between 1998-2003 (my primary school years) it was pretty standard.
I want more American vs. italian stuff!!!
Yup, Italian schools are pure hell🔥
wow i am actually on youtube when one of these premires
I'd like to see an american vs american on something like schools. I know the comments always say how different public schools are depending on the part of the country (or even city) you live in, but I think it would be cool to see a video on it.
Jennifer Dally Right! I hate when its just one person because Evans school experience is 100% different than mine since New Jersey os nothing like Arizona. So it would be nice go have someone from the west coast, mid US and then Evan so we can have a broader range.
You also forgot to explain the evaluation method. The school year is divided into two four-month periods. We go to school 6 days a week and finish at 1 in the afternoon but the rest of the day must be devoted to study. For each subject we have about 1 written exam per month while for the oral exams you can be examined every day (so you always have to be prepared for the whole program of the year). In the oral exam, not only knowledge but also language properties, fluidity and form are evaluated. If your final average at the end of the year is less than 6 for a subject you are 'deferred' to the repair exams: during the summer period you have to recover the educational debt, otherwise you have to repeat the year. With more than 2 or 3 subjects
I feel you need to get someone from America that went to a Catholic school, because there is a huge population of private school Americans who have a completely different experience (praying everyday)
Shido Yeah! I went to Catholic school from 3-13. Now I go to an art school (charter school), and any time I talk to my friends who went to public school they usually get pretty shocked.
Surely I’m not the only one that read the thumbnail for the vid as “Us” vs “It”. Sorry on night shifts and everything is hilarious right now.
"why do you guys think they're cool they're just yellow"
Tell that to hollywood for making them iconic.
It’s weird that here in the UK (ok not Ireland) we’re brought up vaguely religious singing songs and saying prayers in assembly but once you’re an adult it’s just a personal thing rather than it interfering with laws and daily life, but in the US you supposedly have separation of church and state and don’t do religious stuff at school but then you manage to bring up religion all the bloody time. Weird 🤷♀️
As an italian, i am interested
Lena with a Box hi lenaaaa
the fact that i found one of ur comments under one of evans videos is so cool but so funny at the same time
@@elisatrentin hooooiii
for those who are commenting about the school on saturday situation:
Generally public school has a duration of 30 hours a week (but for some highschool choises, especially the tecnical ones, they can be a few more), which are distributed between monday and saturday. For example in middle school i went from monday to friday from 8 am to 2 pm, now that I'm in highschool (i have chosen a classical type of school, which is usually the one where students go on saturdays rather than the scientific school) I go everyday from monday to saturday except for wednesday where we just do two ours of PE since our school doesn't have a gym so we have to go to another building (it's the only school I know about which has this problem, so it's not a typical Italian thing :p). Anyway the point is: it really depends on the school organisation (in some schools, since there are too many students, they have to go a day of the week in the afternoon instead of the morning, everyday a different class, so that there is enough space for everyone), the building and whatever is better for the students, sooo it really depends, but we all study the same amount of ours.
Io non ho mai mangiato in mensa perché alle 13 finisce scuola e torno a casa e pranzo
E ALLE ELEMENTARI?
Io ho finito la scuola un po' di tempo fa, ma non ho mai mangiato a mensa, né alle elementari, né alle medie né alle superiori... Al massimo mangiavo la pizzetta a ricreazione al bar della scuola 😂
@@pentares6124 a scuola da me c'era sia alle medie che alle superiori. Proprio all'interno dell'edificio 😁
@@pentares6124 si, e se non c'era nella scuola c'era un bar vicino
Anch'io nelle medie
Country: Estonia
Kindergarten: 1st three years is lastesõim, then 3yrs to 6/7 yrs old, you go to kindergarten.
School: Primary+ secondary is our 'basic school' which is grades 1 through 9. High school is not compulsory, three years so grades 10-12.
Languages: English starts from either kindergarten or one of the first few grades of primary school (depends on school and kindergarten) and up until 12th grade. Estonian (native) since kindergarten/primary - 12th grade. Russian 6th-12th grade. Highschool comes, you choose between French or Germany, to study one for three years.
Misc: First few grades might start school at 9, but it mostly starts at 8. Primary school finishes earlier, at around 1 or 2 o'clock, but a bunch of kids also have after school stuff in school. At some point the days get longer, up to 4 o'clock at times, even longer if you have choir or anything else like that (robotics, theatre club, arts etc.).
Exams in English, Maths and Estonian at the end of grade 9, then comes first big graduation. Grade 10, one exam (we had oral literature), grade 11 is research (fun times...) and grade 12 is, again, the three exams plus one you choose yourself (Top three were history, arts history and society studies; I chose art). After grade 9 you can choose either high or vocational school. After 12th it's vocational, college or uni.
Lunch was free, but we had these paper ticket things, then upgraded to our student passes, which by then went from paper to plastic, like actual cards. A beep, and you got your food. Yum. Or you bought shit from canteen, or got your own food.
Edit: some schools have legit school buses, most in-city local ones don't. Plus I lived like two bus stops away, so xD
In italy we might have to go to school on saturdays, but at least we don't get gunned down by a 17 years old active shooter :)
In one (British) assembly we had, the head spoke about how people tend to look like their dogs. Other favourites were ‘are you a radiator or a drain’ and one where the head spoke about following the Rock on instagram and her dogs account. Also I can’t imagine only starting school when you’re 7, I was 4 when I started...
Every day in my primary school we used to have to stand up, hold a candle (with a protective cover on it) and say ‘Jesus is the light of the world’. We weren’t a particularly religious school either....
mensa gratis? Al nord forse!
nemmeno io in Liguria non ho avuto la mensa gratis quindi....
Io lavoro in una scuola in Lombardia, NESSUNO ha la mensa gratis, a meno che non abbia problemi economici seri e quindi venga pagata dal Comune. Ha detto una cagata pazzesca. Inoltre non ha specificato che se escludiamo le scuole materne e una parte delle scuole elementari (dipende se sono a tempo pieno o no), non non abbiamo mense a scuola. Boh, la ragazza ha detto un po' di cazzate qua e là...
@@lilys.8617 Ma non è che siano cazzate al 100%. Di certo è sbagliato dice che è così ovunque, di sicuro dipende da regione, provincia e comune
bah da me in Valle d'Aosta non abbiamo la mensa gratis, ma ci danno queste specie di carte che possiamo usare in tutti i bar vicini per prendere del cibo con tipo 3 e 50 gratis.
La mensa gratis ce l'hanno solo le famiglie con seri problemi economici, tutti gli altri pagano, eccome se pagano! Magari hai sconti se hai un certo numero di figli, un reddito basso o lavori per il Comune o per certe ditte, ma ti puoi scordare il cibo gratis. L'Italia non è abbastanza ricca da mettere a tavola tutti i suoi studenti e certi comuni non hanno manco i soldi per pagare gli stipendi ai loro dipendenti o per asfaltare le strade, figurarsi se pagano il pranzo ai bambini a scuola! Anche io lavoro in una scuola e i genitori che non possono permettersi la mensa portano a casa a mangiare i propri figli alle 12,30 e li riportano a scuola per le lezioni del pomeriggio. Gli unici che hanno le mense pagate sono coloro in mano agli assistenti sociali (aka famiglie con bambini H, problemi di maltrattamenti famigliari e separazioni difficili, stranieri appena arrivati in Italia, senza reddito e con bambini da alfabetizzare, ecc), gli altri devono pagare la loro quota o portare i figli a casa.
I am British. In my school, KS1 (ages 4-7) had assembly in the morning and KS2 (ages 7-11) had assembly in the afternoon. On Monday we watched Newsround. On Tuesday we sung (both Christian and non-Christian songs). On Wednesday someone from the local church would come talk to us about Christianity. On Thursday a random teacher would run assembly and talk about something random. On Friday we would have a whole school assembly (KS1 and KS2) and that was when classes would perform their assemblies (if they had one to perform).
In England, you don't do prayers or assemblies everyday in every school. In Primary schools u have assembly most days but u only pray in religious ones. And in secondary school u only have assembly like once or twice a week and again only pray and sing hymns if u go to a religious school.
Near Easter I once had to sing the Lord's Prayer and at Christmas & Easter we would go to church and have a church service.
Coralie Young my school wasn’t religious but all of our songs were: Noah’s ark, he’s got the whole world in his hands, something about a silver trumpet etc
My schools weren't particularly religious but in the lower years of primary school (infants school) we had to pray before lunch every day and had lots of hymms and we had assemblies almost every day throughout primary school. In High School we only had to pray if a specific teacher was leading assembly and he made us 😂
I went to a very Catholic Primary School since my parents are Italian and I had to pray at least twice and day and mass I think once a week. Hymns also were sung every single assembly and you’d get into trouble if you didn’t sing along. I had friends who went to non-religious schools and they had to pray sometimes too but nowhere near as much as me. I don’t think prayer should be done in schools that are non-religious and religious schools should give children the choice to join in or not.
@@pestobea i had friends who went to catholic schools and i don't know if they had to do more praying but they did have to go in more around easter and have big assemblies and things. I had one kid in my class in high school who didn't come to our Religious Education lessons because he was Jehovah's Witness. But those lessons were never like one religion it was about lots of them. So interesting to hear about different places. American school sounds scary from what Evan says sometimes 😂
I love this series. There are so many differences between the us and Italy, but also between both of them and Norway, where I’m from
I just watched the British bit and we choose options in high school in year 9 or 8 depending on the school so I chose in year eight and I was 13 some people were 12
Oooo its highlighted
@@lillyannjean6569 Its because your looking at your own comment. Its not highlighted to anyone else.
@@lollylula6399 ik that now my friend just explained that to me I have no common sense 😂
@@lillyannjean6569 😊 I used to think the same, thought I better let you know x
I have 10 cause I go to a shit school
My school in Britain is mainly paid lunches but if you’re on benefits or something you get it free.
Our school buses are free but you have to register for it. If you live over 3 miles from the school you can get a bus pass, or if the walking route is too dangerous you qualify
6:45
Evan: *intense inhaling*
THATS SO FAIR 😂
I go to a British school, yes we do have assemblies every day and we read our school prayer. It lasts about 1 minute. We never really sing songs about religion, Christianity etc but we would learn about religion every week. I hope this helps someone
She was way too polite! I would’ve lost my shit if he kept interrupting me while i was explaining things with dry jokes to compensate with his insecurities
At my school in Maine, USA. In the winter people ski, snowmobile, take a bus, or drive in a car to school. When the snow is gone, people drive in their car, walk, bike, or take a bus to school.
garlic bread is definitely not italian.
it’s good though
mai mangiata una bruschetta aglio e olio?
@@ven890 ..cosa c'entra la bruschetta con il pane che mangiamo tutti i giorni lo sai solo te.
In fact, here in italy we have bruschetta all'aglio which is made of toasted bread, garlic, olive oil, salt and even pepper.
Her english is perfect, is quite rare hearing this level of mastery, even by people living in US/UK for several years
Oh no. Please don't use the premier function
I literally use it every week. I really like it
@@evan sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. it's your channel, so Go crazy ;) is just a feature I can not see the benefit from.
I was excited to watch this new video but then I'll have to wait an hour and that is just meh. I'd rather just see the video in my abo box an hour later.
LolasTBs exactly!! i hate this function bc it just means i have to wait...? why ??
@@LolasTBs What's the premier f(x)?
I've taught in various schools in Italy, so many kids had roller backpacks. I was surprised how much stuff the kids would take to school, the bags weighed so much! They only had 5 classes but they must have had 2-3 books per class, it was so unnecessary. Primary school was the worst, I would teach kids who would have 3 pencil cases! We weren't allowed to bring our own pencil case in primary school.
Ok she hella pretty
I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU EVAN BEEN WATCHING YOU FOR 3 DAYS STRAIGHT I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH. ❤️❤️
Every time Evan sets a premiere one super funny pun stays unspoken
It does make alot of pressure though. It's not so much like trying something and more like almost having to choose your whole life at age 14 with GCSE choices because you can't really go back and change things if it turns out you don't like what you chose
Wrong thread lmao
@@alexg4085 oh really? man :/
Schools in Italy is like going to work.Take your stuff in the morning, get there, sit in your desk (which is personal), follow the classes and then leave. Your classmates are the same all the time just like your coworkers are. Either the school will have canteen or not (mine didn't but they all do in the primary and secondary schools). It's not a proper campus where you spend most of your time and do different things. Students usually leave as soon as the last class ends.
In terms of quality of educations, I think it's alright but I guess it's up to chance. You have no control over the teachers. If you don't like them, suck it up or change school or you can change class but that means to change all your classmates which means you will change also all your other teachers (so ultimately it's a difficult choice to make).
But it's public and free but as always, public services come with trade offs
Just to expand on teachers thing, the school is not designed for students only (that's how it should be) but also on teachers. It's yet another corporation/union of workers (Italy runs on corporation/unions) with little competition, safe jobs albeit not so well paid (because the italian state would go bankrupt otherwise). Italians like safe jobs though (even if not so well paid) because it's difficult to have one in the first place
Her school was fantastic, I am also Italian but in my school there aren’t all that things
I live in Ocean County NJ and for high school we don’t have transportation, you either walk, get a ride from your friends or your parents, or you drive yourself.
"Do you learn sign language? "
*laughs in school shooting*
I'm from Jersey too, and about the buses, they're free if you live more than 2 miles from the school. Anything closer you need to walk, or drive a car.
A levels are 2 years Evan! Geez get it right 🤣
It's interesting that Ellie mentioned Classic A level (Ginnasio or Gymnasium as it is supposed to be a Gym for the real deal) but didn't bring up we actually study Latin and ancient Greek. Latin is also a common subject in Scientific and technical gymnasium (or A level if you prefer). Most of the Italian students consider these to be pretty useless (some consider them to be interesting) but they're definitely among the most hated subjects. I find them to be pretty cool in your adult life while traveling across Europe and visiting historical sites.
I would love to have Latin and acient greek, or modern greek.
Yassss finally Italian people btw I’m half Italian
E se ti dicessi che sono uno stallone italiano come la mettiamo? 👀🤣🤣🤣 100% carne italiana 😂😂 un salume di prima qualità 😏🤣
She's so cool! Wanna see more of her. Although sorry for her that she was a victim of Evan's bullying!!
Evan “why do you guys thing they’re cool(about buses)”
She(I forgot her name sorry) “BeCAuSe ThEiR BiG!”
Also at my college they sell cake for break times in the morning. People used to ask why we didn’t have lockers in secondary school but I think in some schools in the UK, Northern Ireland they have them
I love her accent ❤❤❤
Some schools in Italy have what we call "rientro", when we have 3 more hours of lessons for 2 times a week, usually starts after lunch and ends at 5-6 p.m.
You can have it during middle school or also during highschool (sometimes it starts after the 2nd year of HS because they change slme subjects and need more hours)
Also, our the first weeks of school doesn't have a stable timetable of rhe lessons, we usually change teachers orders for a couple of weeks before we get the stable one. (Those weeks are hell)
Also not every school has a canteen, mine sent a janitor in every classes to collect the money and then ordered pizza for lunch. Or usually we take a stop to buy our food (usually a sandwich with ham) in the nearest supermarket from school.
My german school also often had no stable time tables.
And even if we had, some shit was always changed up, even before Corona.
One of my primary school teachers were Italian and she told us that if Italians had their arms cut off, they would not be able to talk since they use them too much🤷♂️🤷♂️
I was waiting for a video like this for so long since I saw you two being friends yaaay
Please do a video on US vs Irish education, that way us Irish people taking the useless Junior Cert can be represented!
I am Italian and I have 33h per week and 23 subjects at ITIS (State Industrial Technical Institute). 3 days I have 5h, the other 3 I have 6h.
Our school (1800 stidents +200 teachers) a is near a high school (1200 students + 150 teachers) so public trasportation have a specific school stop. There are 3 busses which arrive specifically to bring students to the train station ( far about 15 min walk).
How did you get anything done in half an hour for gym? Don't get me wrong I'd have freakin loved shorter gym/PE lessons...but we had to get changed in and out of our uniforms at the start and end of each lesson...go wherever we had to go..be told what we were doing...do it. If we'd have had half an hour we'd have gotten changed...been told "this is a volleyball" and gone to change back again and still been late for next lesson 😂
about lunch:
i attended primary and middle school at a catholic private school and we had to pay a pretty high tuition. lunch was an extra €7 a meal and we “only” got it when we had school in the afternoon (once a week in primary and twice in middle school). of course you could have lunch at school every day if you wanted to, but for 5 days of school we had it would have been €35 a week just for your lunches (and the food wasn’t even that good).
+ in middle school you could leave the building and have lunch wherever you wanted to even when there was classes in the afternoon.
i’m now in public (state) high school and my school doesn’t even have a canteen. they built the school in 2011 and when they built it the schedule was different: we went to school on saturdays - so everyday we got out of school at like 1:30 pm (12:30 on saturdays) and went home (or wherever we wanted to) for lunch.
now we don’t go to school on saturdays anymore: we start school at 7:55 am and get out at 2:05 pm. we have a 10 minute break (10:25-10:35) and a 20 minute break (12:15-12:35) during which we can eat lunch if we want to. people who live far away from the school usually bring some food from home or either buy a sandwich/croissant (yes, croissant) from the “snack bar” (which is literally 2 tables with food on them (in containers lol)) or some crap from the vending machines that we have.
as of today, with this timetable/schedule, it makes absolutely no sense for our school not to have a canteen.
didn’t read this over so i apologise for any mistakes and please bear with me cuz: i’m italian
and yes: we used to sometimes get that weird pizza that you were talking about in primary and middle school
oh and high school students are not allowed to leave the school building during the two breaks
I’ve gone to school in two different states in the U.S. and honestly they’re both very different.
In my small town in texas we were given free lunches. We had gym every day. School started at 6:50am and ended at 4:00 pm. There was school buses that picked us up and it was free. And we had 7 classes a day for half a semester and for the second semester we had a separate 7 classes that were a different subject. We said the pledge to the American flag and state flag every morning.
In the second state, Iowa. School was only from 7:00-2:50. We had to pay for lunch and had to pay for public transportation. Gym was every other day. We had 10 classes, 8 subjects that we would alternate days on, each set of 5 was every other day. They never once said the pledge.
Also the education standards are very different. Texas students tend to be held at a higher standard. Again I’m sure not all Texas school are ran the same so don’t quote me on that.
I think another one of the main differences is that, from what I understand, in the US the students move classes for each period, while in Italy the teachers move around classes. So you have the same classmates throughout high school (and the same goes for elementary and middle school)
Yeah always forget that
We didn't move classes until middle school.
In primary we had the same teacher for all the subjects.
Then in Elementary we had teachers that changed rooms.
Then in middle and high school, the students move from class to class.
Not all italians go to school on saturdays
I am in secondary school in England.
Primary - We had 1 assembly a week where we had to pray. I was not christian so i just sat there praying in Hindi. (I am a hindu) But they expected all of us to pray yet recognised the other religions which makes no sense as they did a christian prayer. Also at easter and christmas every year they invited a priest to talk about christianity except all students had to be there. We had learned this in R.E /R.S already.
Secondary - 1 assembly a week but thankfully no prayers.
Weird .. that would never have been allowed in an American public school.. a private Christian school maybe but if someone tried that in public there would be a showdown
It's *impossible* to explain how to pronounce Italian "gn" and "gl" 😂
Alessio Balsamo is the gn like a Spanish n (I don’t have the accent) as in ano?
@@saxx9088 yes, precisely
Another thing worth mentioning is that the high school grading system is different here in Italy: we don’t use letters, only numbers from 1 to 10 (no one actually gets 1 though, 2 is considered the lowest for some reason)!
We usually finish high school at 18 not 19
Italy's school system is similar to Norway's. Kindergarden here starts at between 3-10 months and the year you turn 6, bc no matter what part of the year you're born you start school the year you turn 6. And high school in Norway is pretty similar from what she described it, except we choose at 16.
In Tuscany Italian school we have killers chairs
TIL Italian school system has some similarities with the Swedish school system. We finnish "highschool" at 19 as well (well at least if your birthday is before you graduate). And the last 3 years is our "highschool" where we choose which school to go to and what branch we want to study, like e.g. thechnical, social studies, music, science e.c.t.
Who doesn't love her?! 😍 Ellie is such a wonderful woman
I'm always so intrigued by how school in other countries works. I'm from Sydney and even within Australia there's differences according to each state.