Roles

At school in Italy, who are all the people you might meet? This Italian vocabulary quiz covers five essential school roles: maestro, studente, preside, compagno, and bibliotecario. Match each word to its English equivalent, fill in sentences, and practise full translations to build your Italian school vocabulary.

Worth knowing: maestro refers specifically to a primary school teacher in Italian. At secondary school and university the word changes to professore. The two are not interchangeable, and using the right one signals exactly which level of education you mean.