The Italian Academy of Languages ("Accademia Italiana di Lingua") was born in Florence in 1984 as a no profit association between private and public schools teaching Italian as a second and a foreign language.
From the beginning, the association has taken advantage by experts in the field of certification and particularly by the responsible for the Italian's certification at the pedagogic section of german VHS, Dr Heinz Reiske by Frankfurt, and by the Swiss UP delegate for the above mentioned certificate, Dr Rolf Mäder of Berna.
The need to create an association able to produce certifications came above all by a lack in the Italian language certification field and was supported by the European Council's recommendations suggesting a sort of levels diversification.
The first exam the Association conceived was the DALI, C1 advanced level (1984) followed by DILI, B1 intermediate level (1993) and the last one was the DELI, A2 basic level (1995).
Also the DALC, C2 advanced commercial language's diploma was born in 1995, while the DILC, B1 intermediate commercial language's diploma dates back 2002.
From 2005, the AIL offer range has grown rich with DILI B2, "pre-advanced" level exam which, being included between DILI B1 and DALI C1, goes to check the candidates' linguistic abilities on B2 level.
Since 2007 the AIL DILC - B1 Examination has been recognized by the UFFT (Swiss Federal Office for professional education and technology) as final Exam of Italian as second national language for all the professional commercial schools of Helvetic Confederation.
From 2009 it's possibile to take the DALI C2 advanced level.
