Benvenuti! Our language program is characterized by communication in a fun and relaxed environment and students' active participation.
We will help you learn Italian through classes that build both spoken and written fluency. Buon divertimento!
NEW! FALL 08' Program is now available!
Classes start on October 7th and end in December. Please check the schedule for specific days/times.
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ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES
Italian for Travelers
This popular and lively course of Italian starts you in the right direction with phrases about hotels, restaurants, shops, cafes, and museums. These basic conversational skills will greatly enhance your Italian experience. No prior knowledge of Italian required.
Italiano 1 - 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, ask for information and directions, 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) and regular verbs in -are, articles, gender and plural of nouns, numbers 0-49, formal and informal communication, prepositions, interrogative. (Textbook: Ciao! Book and CD, 6th edition, Carla Larese Riga and Chiara Maria dal Martello, Thomson Heinle, Chapters 1- 4)
Italiano 2 - for students with basic knowledge of Italian
Goal: This course builds on Italiano 1 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 order and talk in detail about food, drinks, common activities, leisure time, plan a trip, describe daily life and talk about family and traditions. Grammar: Indicative present tense of regular and irregular verbs in –ere and –ire; possessive adjectives and pronouns, partitivo (some, any); sapere and conoscere (to know); days of the week, numbers 50-100. (Textbook: Ciao! Sixth edition, Carla Larese Riga and Chiara Maria dal Martello, Thomson Heinle, chapters 4–6)
Italiano 3 - for students with a fairly good command of Italian
Goal: to build on Italiano 2 and give students the structures necessary to make polite requests, express tastes and preferences, describe people and experience from past, make comparisons, express wishes. At the end of this class students should be able to communicate in a shopping environment, talk about their childhood, describe and compare people and things, make social arrangements. Grammar: reinforcement and practice of all tenses of the indicative mood, including imperfect and past perfect, direct and indirect object pronouns, conditional, comparative and superlatives, present progressive. (Book: Italian Espresso 1, Chapters 10– 14)
Italiano 4 – for students with a good command of the language
Goal: This course helps build on Italiano 3 and give students a stronger foundation to developtheir skills base in order to achieve a higher level of complexity in their speaking and reading. At the end of the class students should be able to talk in detail about Italian cuisine, ingredients, and kitchen tools, communicate about vacation, real estate, and converse about economy and employment.
Grammar: Direct, indirect, and disjunctive pronouns, the future tense, the verb piacere, the invariable pronouns ne and ci, double object pronouns, and the conditional mood. (Textbook: Ciao! Book and CD 6th edition, Carla Larese Riga and Chiara Maria dal Martello, Thomson Heinle, Chapters 11–14)
Italiano 5 – for students with a strong command of the language
Goal: As a transition from Italiano 4, this course gives students the advanced language skills necessary to communicate at a high level of complexity. At the end of the course students should be able to describe in detail landscapes and cities, converse about sports, communicate on health and environment, express opinions on art and theater.Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives, relative and indefinite pronouns, the gerund mood and the progressive form, the subjunctive mood, and the hypothetical construction. (Textbook: Ciao! Sixth edition, Carla Larese Riga and Chiara Maria dal Martello, Thomson Heinle, chapters 15-18)
Italiano 6 – for students with a strong command of the language
Goal: to build on Italiano 5 and give students stronger and wider language skills to be able to interact at a very high level of complexity. At the end of the class students should be able to debate, judge and talk about any subject. Grammar: conjunctive, conditional tense, relative pronouns, and gerund (Book: Italian Espresso 2, Chapters 9 and up).
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.
Beginner Conversation requires Italian 2+ (or equivalent)
Intermediate Conversation requires Italian 3+ (or equivalent)
Advanced Conversation requires Italian 5+ (or equivalent)
Si Dice Così: Italian Idiomatic Expressions
This class is designed to enrich your knowledge of Italian idiomatic expressions in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, with many opportunities to practice them. Requires a good command of the language (4+)
L’Italia e gli italiani
This is a level 5 and higher course which promotes learning through interaction and reflection. Its goal is to present a realistic picture of modern Italy and its relationship to the world while strengthening the student’s current language skills. The themes and the selection of readings, situations and photographs are aimed at removing stereotypical images of Italy and Italians and providing a more complex and up-to-date portrayal. This course also integrates communicative aspects in all four skills – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Grammar exercises and activities allow for individual creativity, thereby building correct usage of the language in an interactive, dynamic way. This will include: passato prossimo and imperfetto, modo congiuntivo e condizionale, periodo ipotetico, verbi causativi, si passivante and impersonale, discorso diretto and indiretto. (5+)
SUMMER '08 LECTURES
Want to learn more about Italy? Prepare for a trip to the old country? Or simply spend some time with us while listening to our stories and presentations? A new lecture series is ready for you!
We will explore in depth the 20 Italian regions, divided up in 4 lectures: The North, The Center, The South and the Islands.
Lectures are for ICC members and will be in English. Cost is $15 per lecture, or buy all four for $40.
Schedule:
Northern Regions: Thursday, October 23 6:00-7:30pm
Center Regions: Thursday, November 6, 6:00-7:30pm
Southern Regions: Thursday, November 20, 6:00-7:30pm
Islands: Thursday, December 4, 6:00-7:30pm
WORKSHOPS
GRAMMAR WORKSHOPS
These workshops focus on those aspects of the Italian language that American students find difficult to learn. In general, lessons last two and one half hours and concentrate on a single narrow subject (pronouns, prepositions, use of the subjunctiv, pronounciation, idioms, etc
CULTURAL WORKSHOPS
These workshops are ususally a one or two day lectures on Italian cultural subjects of interest. They can be conducted in Italian and/or in English depending on the subject and on the knowledge of Italian language required.
NEW TEXTBOOKS!
You Asked. We listened.
Starting Summer 2008 the ICC will gradually introduce a new textbook: “Ciao!”.
 This book is very popular and it is available at all major regular and on-line stores. It will eventually cover levels 1 through 5. The first classes introducing the new book will be Italiano 1 and 4, more classes will introduce it in the following quarters.
Ciao! Book and CD
Authors: Carla Larese Riga, Chiara Maria Dal Martello
Publisher: Heinle
Edition: 6th
ISBN-13: 9781413016369
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