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Traveling
in Italy - in English - Five hours of useful information
on Italian travel - in five sessions. Essential to the first time
visitor as well as to the seasoned traveler.
- What
to see, where to go, best times of the year
- Modalities
of travel: air, land and sea-travel to and in Italy
- Where
to stay
- Dealing
with a variety of situations, basic vocabulary, survival Italian
- Cultural
differences - how to avoid missteps
- more...
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First-year
Italian - Italian 1, 2, 3 - in
this sequence we lay the foundation for eventual Italian conversation.
We emphasize and drill extensively on the following:
- Italian
pronunciation
- Listening
to spoken Italian
- Vocabulary
building
- Grammar
- Translations
to and from Italian from and to English
You
are not expected to converse in Italian during this entire first
year. However, you ARE expected to do assigned homework; figure
on spending an hour studying and drilling at home for every hour
of classroom time.
We
realize this approach is rather unorthodox in these days of "total
immersion" and of easy promises of fluency with little or
no work. However, our approach is distilled from MANY years of
exposure to language instruction methodologies, both as students
and as teachers. All of us are AT LEAST bilingual, and are intimately
acquainted with the problems and struggles of trying to learn
a foreign language as adults.
Click
here to learn more about our language
instruction philosophy
Click here to view the first-year syllabus
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Conversation - in
this class we converse entirely in Italian. Grammar is not neglected,
but the emphasis is on interactive conversations, role playing,
reading beginning Italian books, telling travel experiences, etc.
Vocabulary building and idiomatic phrases are also emphasized.
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Vivere Italiano - our
most advanced conversation class, features student-initiated conversation
and activities, listening to music and interpreting the lyrics,
readings in contemporary Italian literature, discussions of news
and events of interest in Italy and convivial gatherings for spontaneous
Italian conversing.
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