Italian Made Easy for Travelers
and/or anyone wishing to pursue this lovely language!
Classes have now been scheduled for 2009 (see below). In addition, there is much to avail yourselves to
among these web pages and much that can be used as study materials (see the pages: Class reviews, Assignments,
and Language links just for starters)!
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I thought a class web site would be a wonderful way of getting excited about the language you are learning, keeping you
up-to-date on class times and making activities and reviews assessable to you. Most of all I hope to make this your starting
off point to a wealth of information on the web about Italy and the Italian language. I'm providing you with
lots of links - the best information I've found that will make your learning interesting and enjoyable. I hope your
explorations will help you in finding the answers to any questions on travel and/or grammar.
Note: You will find links to a translation engine and a Italian<>English dictionary
on the "Meet the Teacher" page.
Class Times (updated 7/3/09 - aggiornato 3.7.09)
Ecco il programma
per i mesi di luglio/agosto 2009:
Italiano I (Beginners) Tuesdays
7:00-8:30 July 7 – August 4 (8 studenti)
Italiano I-b Wed 7:30 il 1 – 15 luglio
(6 studenti)
Italiano II-b Mon 7:30 il 15 giugno –
13 luglio (8 studenti)
Italiano III Thurs 7:15 il 9 luglio – 6 agosto (4 studenti)
Italian IVb Wed 6-7:30 il 8 luglio – 5
agosto (8 studenti)
2009 Beginners Classes - each class meets
for 5 consecutive
weeks:
Aug 11 – Sept 8
Five Tues., 7-8:30 p.m.
Sept 15 – Oct 13 Five Tues., 7-8:30 p.m.
The
Beginners' class is the only class that doesn't meet at my home. Email me for direzioni.
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do I fit in?
Let me know which class you'd like to try first! If it seems troppo facile
or troppo difficile puoi sempre cambiare gruppo. Ecco la lista delle lezioni e piu' o meno cosa hanno studiato:
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Italiano I (Beginners) This is what we cover:
Week 1: Pronunciation. Useful questions and answers. Numbers. I would
like (=Vorrei).
Week 2: Review of 1st week. Using the euro. New vocabulary. Singular
and plurals.
Week 3: Learning the article: a + vocabulary word + adjective. Describing
pictures.
Week 4: Family members. Word patterns. Telling time, days of the
week, months of the year. Whats the weather like? Recognizing adverbs and learning how to conjugate verbs.
Week 5: Review of verbs. Food items and ordering from a menu.
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Italiano I-b (Libro I) A good review of
all the above, plus more practice with verb conjugations, the adverbs [abbastanza, meglio, presto, spesso, ecc...],
and role-play ordering from a menu. We will do the idioms using "to have" [i.e., avere fame, sete, ecc...], many useful expressions,
and an introduction to the irregular verbs [andare, venire, fare, dare, dire...].
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Italiano II (Libro II-p.1) know all of the above, getting
more comfortable with the language, more vocabolario, espressioni, and practice with irregular verbs.
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Italian II-b (Libro II-p.13) all of the above, plus
learning more challenging vocabulary, additional grammar, sentence structure being practiced again and again to generate confidence
in their ability to understand and converse. Some "passato prossimo" with avere. Are familiar with he difference between the
two Italian verbs used to translate <to know> and the difference between <tempo> and <volta>. I verbi "piacere"
[mi piace, ti piace...], "potere" (to be able, can) and "dovere" (to have to, must) have been added.
They have learned to use il telefono and the seven ways to say "the".
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Italiano
III (Libro III-p.5) all of the above plus they are much more comfortable using the past tense (passato prossimo)
of verbs using both avere and essere as the helping verb: ho mangiato, ho comprato, sono andata, sei stata, ecc...
Have done role-play with clothes and shopping. They have been using the possessive and the articulated preposizioni
[al, della, agli, sullo,...], the present and past gerundio [sto mangiando, stavo dormendo,...] and are slowly starting
to acquire a taste for the imperfetto [mangiavo, lavoravo, ecc...]. They have briefly introduced to reflexive verbs.
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Italian III-b (Libro III-p.13): almost similar to
the above, plus the "da or duration form", and some practice with the ordinal numbers and the command form.
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Italian IV (Libro IV-p.23): all of the above, plus reciprocal verbs, i numeri ordinali, body parts, and all the direct
& indirect object pronouns. Have started to comfortably use the futuro, the conditional, the imperativo, and
the present subjunctive. They love speaking in italiano without any prompting on my part!
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