COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Greetings
• Introducing yourself/introducing other people
• Asking about someone’s place of origin
• Asking and giving phone number and address

• Start a conversation
• Asking and giving personal information
• To be sorry for something
• To thank

• Ordering in a café and in a restaurant
• Asking for things in a polite way
• Asking for the bill
• Making a reservation
• Spelling

GRAMMAR

• Subject pronouns
• Present tense ESSERE-AVERE-CHIAMARSI
• The alphabet
• Nouns
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Nouns and adjectives agreement
• Introduction to interrogatives and demonstratives
• Numbers 0-100
• Prepositions a – in

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Free time and leisure activities
• Talk about how often one does something
• People’s interests and occupations
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Asking and telling time

• Booking a hotel room
• Asking for the price
• Home furniture and urban environment
• Complaining about a specific problem
• Description of an apartment

• Description of a place
• Description of an itinerary
• Directions
• Expressing regret
• To apologize

GRAMMAR

• Regular verbs -IRE
• Verbs ANDARE -GIOCARE–LEGGERE- USCIRE (present tense)
• Frequency adverbs
• The days of the week
• Mi piace- Mi piacciono
• Indirect pronouns (singular)
• Perchè

• C’è- Ci sono
• POTERE-VENIRE (present tense)
• Prepositions da…a…
• Prepositions with articles
• The months
• Ordinal numbers
• The date
• Numbers 100 +

• Ci + andare
• Noun-adjective agreement
• Adjectives in -CO -CA
• Partitives (plural of indefinite articles)
• Molto
• DOVERE-SAPERE
• More interrogatives
• A CHE ORA ?

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Talk about past actions and events
• Holiday activities
• Specify when a past event took place
• Talk about the weather

• Food
• Grocery shopping
• Description of a store
• Recipes and dishes

• Work habits and working hours
• Daily routine
• Congratulations and wishes for special occasions and holidays
• Italian public holidays

GRAMMAR

• Past tense : passato prossimo
• Time indicators
• Regular and irregular past participles
• Absolute superlative
• Double negative
• Qualche

• The seasons
• Quantities
• Partitive (singular)
• Direct pronouns (lo ,la, li, le, ne)
• Impersonal construction (si + verbo)

• Reflexive verbs
• Time and frequency indicators
• FARE (specific usage)

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Family
• Description of a photo
• Expressing possession
• Gifts and weddings

• General review

GRAMMAR

• Possessive adjectives
• Relative superlative
• Reflexive verbs (Past tense)
• Perchè- Siccome

Short 5 weeks course aimed at improving our students’ conversational skills on everyday topics.

No books required.

Classes are 90 minutes long.

We have both IN PERSON and ONLINE group options.

To join this group, students must have completed our regular Beginners 3 course or demonstrate an equivalent level.

An 8-week, hands-on course that blends beginner Italian (A1–A2) with practical travel design.

Hands-on classes to dream and plan your next Italian vacation while learning Italian.

Each week, you’ll discover with Estella an Italian hidden gem, build your route—anchors, transport, lodging, reservations, and food—while practicing the phrases you’ll actually use on the road.

By the end, you’ll walk away with a personalized, realistic itinerary and a compact Italian language toolkit to help you navigate Italy with confidence.

Included in your registration is a booklet designed specifically for this group (value $25). It will be sent via email in .pdf format a few days before the first class.

Very practical Italian classes for those who are planning to visit Italy in the coming weeks.

You will enjoy a total of 5 classes, 90 minutes long, focused on learning how to reserve a table, order some food, ask questions to locals, buy tickets for a train, talk to the taxi driver, ask for information, and so on…
To get the most out of your time in Italy!

We have planned 2 sessions for the Spring Term, 5 weeks each:

• Session 1 from April 7th to May 5th
• Session 2 from May 12th to June 9th