You are completely new to Italian, or you can speak and understand Italian in a very limited way. We will teach you the fundamentals of basic Italian communication, like introduce yourself and others and ask and answer questions about personal details.
Program Structure
Register to a beginner sub-levels:
Beginner 1
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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
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
June 7 to Aug 16 (10 WKS) --- no class on 7/5
SA 11:30 am - 1:30 pm PST
Teacher: Chiara (ONLINE)
$390/term
Jul 14 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) --- no class on 9/1
M 6:00 - 8:00 pm PST
Teacher: Chiara (ONLINE)
$390/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 1-2-3-4
Workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Beginner 2
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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 ?
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
Jun 22 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) --- no classes on 7/20-8/10
SU 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Teacher: Luigi (ONLINE)
$390/term
Jun 26 to Sept 25 (10 WKS) --- no classes on 7/24, 7/31, 8/7
TH 6:00 - 8:00 pm PST
Teacher: Luigi (ONLINE)
$390/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 5-6-7-8
Workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Beginner 3
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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)
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
Jul 14 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) --- no class on 9/1
M 3:00 - 5:00 pm PST
Teacher: Dario (IN PERSON)
$400/term
Jul 14 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) --- no class on 9/1
M 6:00 - 8:00 pm PST
Teacher: Gianna (ONLINE)
$390/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapter 9-10-11-12
Workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Beginner 4
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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
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: Dario (IN PERSON)
$400/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 13-14-15 + general review
Workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Conversazione Beginners
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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.
We have both IN PERSON and ONLINE group options.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
May 8 to June 12 (5 WKS) --- no class on 5/22
TH 4:30 - 6:00 pm PST
Teacher: Jimmy (ONLINE)
$180/term
TEXTBOOK
Italian for Travelers
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Very practical Italian classes for those who are planning to visit Italy in the coming weeks.
You will enjoy a total of 5 classes, 90 minutes long, focused on learning how to reserve a table, order some food, ask questions to locals, buy tickets for a train, talk to the taxi driver, ask for information, and so on…
To get the most out of your time in Italy!
We have planned 1 session for the Spring Term and 2 sessions for the Summer Term, 5 weeks each:
- Spring Term – Session 2: Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 pm PST from May 7th to June 4th
- Summer Term – Session 1: Thursday 4:00 – 5:30 pm PST from June 19th to July 17th
- Summer Term – Session 2: Thursday 5:00 – 6:30 pm PST from July 31st to August 28th
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Facilissimo, D Krasa e A. Riboni
PRICE
Prices are listed next to each group.
A 10$ 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
