You can communicate in Italian in a variety of everyday social contexts, like at work, in school, at home. You will learn to talk and interact in Italian with more confidence, especially when traveling to Italy. You will also widen your grammar and vocabulary range.
Program Structure
Register to a intermedio sub-levels:
Intermedio 1
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Making analogies
- Inviting someone to do something together
- Asking for an opinion
- Expressing surprise, relief, happiness, empathy
- Expressing doubts
- Asking to borrow
- Telling about a cultural or a linguistic accident
- Expressing opinions
- Expressing agreement and disagreement
- Asking for help
- Complain
- Expressing hope
- Expressing disapproval
- Expressing wishes
- Expressing a prohibition
- Asking for the cause
- Motivate
- Insist
- Making plans
- Expressing preferences
- Description of products
- Description of objects (material, usage, features)
- Asking/confirming an intention
- Explaining the cause
- Making a guess
- Expressing emotions and mood
- Expressing fear
- Expressing a condition
- Making a complaint
- To forgive / to justify yourself
- To blame
GRAMMAR
- Trapassato prossimo
- Prima di + infinitive
- Verb Dovere to express a hypothesis
- Pronomi combinati
- Negative prefix in-
- Past conditional to express an unfulfilled wish
- CI – NE
- Some pronominal verbs
- Possessive pronouns
- Past subjunctive
- Subjunctive review
- Tenses and moods correlations
- Suffix -accio
- A patto che, purchè, a condizione che + subjuntive
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 3 Chapters 1-2-3
Intermedio 2
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Different means of communication and appropriate language
- Making comparisons
- Giving an explanation
- Starting a conversation on the phone
- Offering help and availability
- Asking about a person
- Reporting an error
- Reporting what somebody else said
- Transcribing a message left by a person
- Telling the plot of a book
- Expressing interest/disinterest/ preference
- Suggestions
- Giving advice
- Asking for reason and explaining
- Giving an opinion
- The family and social changes
- Introducing a new topic with a question
- Participating in a discussion
- Asking for confirmation and confirm
- Comment a statistic
- Expressing the consequences of a fact
- Advantages and disadvantages of a condition
GRAMMAR
- Imperfetto Subjunctive
- Come se + subjunctive
- Indirect speech
- Verbs andare and venire in an indirect speech
- Che io sappia
- Tenses and moods correlation
- Passive voice with Essere and Venire
- Passato remoto
- The historical present tense (narrative present)
- Sebbene, nonostante, malgrado, benché + subjunctive ,
- Anche se + indicative
- Special comparatives and superlatives
- Fare + infinitive
- Impersonal form of a reflexive verb (ci si)
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
Jul 14 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) - no class on 9/1
M 6:00 - 8:00 pm PST
Teacher: Jimmy (ONLINE)
$390/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 3 Chapters 4-5-6
Intermedio 3
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- Holidays
- Expressing the lack of desire to do something
- Explaining the reason of a dissent
- Making fun of something
- Expression of irony
- Reminding a promise
- Expressing preferences
- Telling about an embarrassing experience
- Giving advice
- Hypothesize
- Talking about one’s behavior in certain situations
COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Italians in history
- Telling the life of an historical figure
- Telling a journey
- Expressing disbelief
- Discover Italy
- Asking a question indirectly
- Asking about the characteristics of a place
- Asking and giving information
- Asking for confirmation
- Report what another person said
- Report the beauties of a place
- Expressing disappointment
GRAMMAR
- Adverb Mica
- Past conditional as future in the past
- Hypothetical sentence secondo tipo (possibility)
- Modal and temporal gerund
- Adjectives in -bile
- Loro with an impersonal function
- Position of pronouns with gerund
- Indirect interrogative sentence
- Indirect speech with the main clause in the past tense
- Prima di – Prima che
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 3 Chapters 7-8-9
Intermedio 4
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Italian language today
- Talking about linguistic and cultural mistakes
- Expressing irony
- Soften and invite to soften the tone of a discussion
- Expressing a strong disagreement
- Making assumptions in the past
- Talking about language learning
- General Review
GRAMMAR
- Passive voice with Andare
- Subjunctive past perfect
- Hypothetical sentence (terzo tipo) in the past
- Past gerund
- Past infinitive
- Dopo + past infinitive
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
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Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 3 Chapter 10 + General review
Conversazione Intermedio
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Short 5 weeks course aimed at improving our students’ conversational skills on everyday topics.
No books required.
Classes are 90 minutes long.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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TEXTBOOK
PRICE
Prices are listed next to each group.
A 10$ nonrefundable registration fee will be automatically added at checkout.
Books are not included in the enrollment price.
DISCOUNTS
BRING A FRIEND: If you enroll with a friend (new to IIS), you both get a 10% discount
ENROLL IN 2 GROUPS: if you enroll in 2 groups in the same Term, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment (the less expensive)
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 10% discount
BULK REGISTRATION: if you enroll in 2 or more Terms at the same time, you will not pay the $10 registration fee and will get an additional 10% discount
To get these discounts, send an email to italianschool@sfiis.org
A 10$ nonrefundable registration fee will be automatically added at checkout.
Books are not included in the enrollment price.
DISCOUNTS
BRING A FRIEND: If you enroll with a friend (new to IIS), you both get a 10% discount
ENROLL IN 2 GROUPS: if you enroll in 2 groups in the same Term, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment (the less expensive)
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 10% discount
BULK REGISTRATION: if you enroll in 2 or more Terms at the same time, you will not pay the $10 registration fee and will get an additional 10% discount
To get these discounts, send an email to italianschool@sfiis.org
DURATION
Group Classes
from 5 to 10 weeks groups, different duration
Term 1
January 6th to March 16th 2025
Term 2
March 31st to June 8th 2025
Term 3
July 14th to September 21st 2025
Term 4
October 6th to December 14th 2025
