You can speak Italian with some confidence. You can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics. You can have a conversation with native speakers with ease, fluency and spontaneity.
Program Structure
Register to a beginner sub-levels:
Pre-avanzato 1
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Telling an event
- Talking about habits related to school memories
- Description of a teacher, a classmate, a course, a school
- Expressing agreement/disagreement
- Expressing regret
- Showing amazement and disbelief
- Admitting something
- Criticizing an opinion or a statement
- Talking about food
- Talking about taste
- Expressing a preference
- Description of a dish
- Describing a procedure in detail
- Reporting information
- Expressing percentages/statistics and commenting on them
- Framing a fact in a past century
- Reporting an event or a historical fact
- Expressing and discussing your point of view in informal contexts
GRAMMAR
- Use of the auxiliary verbs ESSERE or AVERE in the Passato Prossimo
- Verbs with double auxiliary in the Passato Prossimo
- Cavarsela and Entrarci
- Review of past tenses : passato prossimo, imperfetto, passato remoto
- Relative pronouns Chi, Ciò che
- Indefinite words
- Future perfect (Futuro anteriore)
- Subjunctive with indefinites
- Dislocation to the left (?) Dislocazione a sinistra
- Passive voice
- Verbs + prepositions
- Time indicators Allora, Un giorno
- Indirect speech introduced by di
- Use of conditional to express uncertain information
- Non perchè + subjunctive
- Indirect interrogative sentences
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 1-2-3
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Pre-avanzato 2
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Talking about work
- Making a request and respond formally
- Talking clearly and politely in a formal situation
- Communicating a desire or an intention
- Exchanging complex information and advice about work
- Expression of emotions in formal and informal situations
- Talking about oneself
- Description of people
- Complaining
- Interviewing someone
- Film genres
- Expressing taste and preferences
- Telling the plot of a movie
- Review a movie
- Expressing criticism
GRAMMAR
- Use of subjunctive with relative sentences
- Use of subjunctive with relative superlative
- Difference between Finalmente and Alla fine
- Gerund with causal and hypothetical function
- Tense correlation: conditional with subjunctive
- Professions (feminine and masculine)
- Adjectives formed from nouns
- Use of the postponed possessive adjectives
- Uscirsene
- Use of possessive Proprio
- The formation of the opposite of nouns and adjectives
- Different ways to express SE in the hypothetical sentence
- Hypotheticals (irrealtà)
- Come se – Senza che + subjunctive
- Position of adjectives
- Subjuncive with the negative main clause
- Subjuntive with Purché
- Fare + infinitive
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 4-5-6
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Pre-Avanzato 3
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Visiting a museum
- Starting and ending a presentation
- Telling by specifying details
- Focusing on a specific part of the speech
- Description of an image
- Expressing agreement/disagreement
- Sustainable Italy
- Expressing an opinion and an evaluation
- Taking about environmental problems
- Making proposals
- Expressing wishes
- Curiosities about Italy
- Expressing doubts
- Explaining something
- Congratulate
- Asking and giving advice
GRAMMAR
- Prepositions In and A
- Subjunctive tenses correlation
- Infinitive used as a noun
- Relative pronouns
- Relative pronoun Il cui
- Relative pronoun Il che
- Position of pronouns with gerund, past participle, infinitive and imperative
- More about the position of the adjective
- Future (Different uses)
- Position of the adverbs
- Definite articles with geographic nouns
- Gerund present and past
- Some expressions with pronominal verbs : A dirla tutta, Sbrigarsela da soli, Arrampicarsi sugli specchi
- Homonyms
- Words with two plurals
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 7-8-9
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Pre-Avanzato 4
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Conducting an interview
- Contradicting a common opinion
- Discussing a topic
- General Review
GRAMMAR
- Subjuntive with comparative sentences
- Subjunctive with : In modo che, Far sì che
- Plural of compound words
- Use of Mica
- Some idiomatic expressions : Prendersela, Darci giù…
- Comparative of equality Tanto quanto
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 4 Chapter 10 + General review
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
PRICE
$480/term
+ 10$ nonrefundable registration fee
Books are not included
DURATION
Intensive Classes
5 week course, 2 hour classes twice a week
Term 1
First session
January 8th to February 8th
Second session
February 12th to March 16th
January 8th to February 8th
Second session
February 12th to March 16th
Term 2
First session
April 1st to May 3rd
Second session
May 6th to June 8th
April 1st to May 3rd
Second session
May 6th to June 8th
Term 3
First session
July 29th to August 31st
Second session
September 2nd to October 5th
July 29th to August 31st
Second session
September 2nd to October 5th
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