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
Nov 14 to Dec 12
T 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Teacher: Angela (ONLINE SESSION 1)
$190/term
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 1-2-3-4
Book 1 workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
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
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 5-6-7-8
Book 1 workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
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
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapter 9-10-11-12
Book 1 workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
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
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - Chapters 13-14-15 + general review
Book 1 workbook (mandatory)
New Italian Espresso - workbook
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
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.
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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 will have 2 sessions during the WINTER TERM:
- Session 1 – Tuesdays 5:00-6:30 pm PST (ONLINE) from January 9th (5 classes)
- Session 2 – Tuesdays 5:00-6:30 pm PST (ONLINE) from February 13th (5 classes)
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
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.
A 10$ nonrefundable registration fee will be automatically added at checkout.
Books are not included in the enrollment price.
DURATION
Group Classes
from 5 to 10 weeks groups, different duration
Term 1
January 8th to March 16th
Term 2
April 1st to June 8th
Term 3
July 29th to September 28th
Term 4
October 9th to December 16th
