You can understand the Italian language used in everyday situations and you can have a basic conversation, only if the speaker speaks slowly and clearly. We will help you improve your skill, learning to talk about your likes/dislikes, your family and your routines, order a meal in a restaurant and go shopping.
Program Structure
Register to a beginner sub-levels:
Elementare 1
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Shopping
- Clothing
- Colors
- Expressing doubts
- Expressing taste and opinions
- Giving advice
- Asking for advice
- Comparisons
- Talking about memories
- Description of habits in the past
- Description of situations
- Physical and personality description
- Comparison between people personality
- Polite form
- Hypothetical sentence
- Making a proposal
- Giving advice
- Expressing wishes
GRAMMAR
- Piacere
- Indirect pronouns
- Troppo
- Questo/quello
- Informal Imperative (Tu)
- Comparative
- Imperfetto
- Imperfetto and Passato prossimo
- -CI
- Alterati (-ino and -one)
- ————-
- Né… né
- Verbs farcela, sapere, andarsene
- Comparison quanto/come
- Passato prossimo Cominciare and Finire
- Present conditional
- Qualcuno-nessuno
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Unfortunately we don't have available classes for this program. If you need more information, please contact us.
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 1-2-3
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della lingua Italiana
Elementare 2
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Accepting/rejecting a proposal
- Motivating a refusal
- Making an appointment
- Booking a play by phone
- Expressing surprise and disappointment
- Inquiring about something
- Asking about the duration of a trip
- Asking for the price
- Interactions on a social media
- Expressing needs
- Talking about food and eating habits
- Commenting the taste of food
- Expressing opinions
GRAMMAR
- Progressive form stare + gerundio
- Direct pronouns and avere (ce l ’ho)
- Agreement between direct pronouns and past participles
- Adverbs già / non… ancora
- Position of direct and indirect pronouns with infinitive verbs
- Relative pronouns che and cui
- Tranne
- Imperfetto VOLERE
- SAPERE e CONOSCERE Imperfetto and Passato prossimo
- Imperfetto vs Passato prossimo
- Volerci
- Quello che
- Irregular Imperative (tu)
- Negative Imperative (tu)
- Verb Servire
- Position of pronouns with the imperative (tu)
- Informal imperative (irregular verbs)
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Unfortunately we don't have available classes for this program. If you need more information, please contact us.
CONTACT US
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 4-5-6
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della lingua Italiana
Elementare 3
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Talking about health issues
- Description of symptoms
- Confirming a possibility
- Giving advice about health
- Giving advice about sport activities Talking about workout habits
- Trying to convince someone
- Talking about the future
- Talking about wishes and plans for the future
- Writing a letter for a job
- Suppositions
- Conditions
- Talking about work
- Apologize
- Telling a story
- Telling what happens in a specific moment
- Showing curiosity about a story and the person who tells the story
- Expressing disappointment
GRAMMAR
- Imperative (Lei and voi)
- Negative Imperative (Lei and voi)
- Position of pronouns with the imperative (Lei)
- Comparative and superlative of buono and bene
- Nouns in -tore and -ista
- Some nouns with irregular plural
- Futuro semplice
- Bisogna
- Metterci with the meaning avere bisogno di tempo
- Periodo ipotetico della realtà (se + present tense or future)
- Pronouns la and le
- Mentre/Durante
- Stare per + infinitive
- Passato prossimo of modal verbs
- VOLERE-DOVERE-POTERE
- Conjunctions però, quindi, perchè, mentre, quando
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Unfortunately we don't have available classes for this program. If you need more information, please contact us.
CONTACT US
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 7-8-9
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della lingua Italiana
Elementare 4
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Description of an apartment
- Expressing needs and wishes
- Being for or against specific subjets
- Comparisons
- General review
GRAMMAR
- The adjective Bello
- Present subjunctive (regular verbs)
- Present subjunctive (some irregular verbs)
- Usage of subjunctive to express necessity, hope, personal opinion
- Comparative più… di/che
- Adverb Magari
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapter 10 + General review
Book 2 Grammar (mandatory)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della lingua Italiana
PRICE
$350/term
+ 10$ nonrefundable registration fee
Book is not included
DURATION
Intensive Classes
5 week course, 2 hour classes twice a week
Term 1
First session
January 9th to February 11th
Second session
February 13th to March 18th
January 9th to February 11th
Second session
February 13th to March 18th
Term 2
First session
April 3rd to May 6th
Second session
May 8th to June 10th
April 3rd to May 6th
Second session
May 8th to June 10th
Term 3
First session
July 17th to August 19th
Second session
August 21st to September 23rd
July 17th to August 19th
Second session
August 21st to September 23rd
Term 4
First session
October 9th to November 11th
Second session
November 13th to December 16th
October 9th to November 11th
Second session
November 13th to December 16th
