Regular Classes

BEGINNER ITALIAN I - for absolute beginners

Goal: This course gives students the basic tools needed to successfully understand and communicate in Italian. At the completion of this course students should be able to greet others, introduce themselves, talk about themselves and others, and describe people, things, and places.
Grammar: Pronunciation, subject pronouns, c’è (there is) and ci sono (there are), indicative present tense of essere (to be), avere (to have), articles, gender and plural of nouns, numbers 0-49.

BEGINNER ITALIAN II - for students with a very basic knowledge of Italian

Goal: this course builds on Beginner Italian I and provides students a stronger and wider skill set necessary to understand, speak, read and write in Italian. At the end of the course students should be able to talk about the Italian education system, to order and to talk about food and drinks, as well as discuss common activities, leisure time, trip planning, daily life.

Grammar: reinforcement and practice of tenses of the indicative mood, irregular verbs in –are, prepositions, partitive, adjectives and adverbs of quantity.

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I - for students with a fairly good command of Italian

Goal: this course builds on Beginner Italian II and provides students a stronger and wider skill set necessary to understand, speak, read and write in Italian. At the end of the course students should be able to talk about the family and traditions, trip reservation and planning and money.
Grammar: reinforcement and practice of tenses of the indicative mood; irregular verbs in -ere, -ire; possessive adjectives, direct and indirect pronouns, present perfect with essere or avere, reflexive verbs.

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II - for students with a good command of Italian

Goal: this course builds on Intermediate Italian I. At the end of the course students should be able to talk about media, Italian fashion, weather and time, vacation and free time.

Grammar: imperfetto tense and the use of imperfetto versus passato prossimo; pluperfect tense, imperative and demonstrative adjectives will be studied, future tense, verb piacere.

ADVANCED ITALIAN I - for students with strong command of the language

Goal: to give students the tolls to be able to talk in detail about house and furniture, trades and professions, geographical descriptions.

Grammar: the course will be focused on ne and ci, double pronouns, conditional mood, present and past, comparatives and superlatives.

ADVANCED ITALIAN II - for students with strong command of the language

Goal: to give students the tools to talk in detail about sports and health.
Grammar: relative pronouns and indefinite pronouns, gerund and progressive form, past remote.

ADVANCED ITALIAN III - for students with strong command of the language

Goal: to give students the tools to talk in detail about environment; music, art and theatre.
Grammar: subjunctive mood; present and past subjunctive of irregular verbs; conjunctions and subjunctive; subjunctive imperfetto and pluperfect; how to use all the subjunctive tenses in complex sentences.

BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED CONVERSATION

Italian culture - art, cuisine, cinema, lifestyles, music, fashion, etc– is the starting point for a number of conversations and discussions that will help students to both enrich their knowledge of Italy and build a larger vocabulary. Includes practical usage and review of the grammar previously studied.

Note:

Beginner Conversation requires Intermediate Italian I level completed (or equivalent).
Intermediate Conversation requires Intermediate Italian II level completed (or equivalent).
Advanced Conversation requires Advanced Italian I level completed (or equivalent).

The TEXTBOOK utilized for all seven levels is Ciao! 7th Edition.

Ciao!

Authors: Carla Larese Riga, Chiara Maria Dal Martello
Publisher: Heinle
Edition: 7th
ISBN-13: 9781428288379