Italian 301
Description
Italian 301 continues to build on expressing more complex thoughts and emotions. This dynamic course opens the door to authentic Italian interactions, allowing you to describe people, share opinions, make plans with friends, and engage in real-time conversations about what’s happening around you. Get ready to bring your Italian to life with personality, spontaneity, and cultural flair!
What You’ll Learn:
- Express Yourself Fully: Master physical and personality descriptions using rich vocabulary for face, body features, and character traits—perfect for meeting new people and deepening relationships.
- Navigate Social Situations: Learn to make, accept, and politely refuse invitations using authentic expressions like “ti va di”, “che ne dici di”, and “volentieri”—essential for building your social circle in Italy.
- Speak in Real-Time: Describe ongoing actions with the progressive form (stare + gerund) and master present gerunds of key irregular verbs (dire, fare, bere) to talk about what’s happening right now.
- Perfect Your Grammar Foundation: Confidently use auxiliaries essere and avere with modal verbs and action verbs like cominciare and finire, plus master the absolute superlative and versatile molto.
- Connect with Italian Culture: Read and understand horoscopes while exploring zodiac vocabulary—a fun way to practice reading comprehension and engage in popular Italian conversations.
Course Benefits:
- Ideal for Busy Lifestyles: Shorter classes with slightly faster pace for those who prefer focused, 1-hour sessions.
- Interactive and Engaging: Practice speaking with classmates and your instructor.
- Learn Anywhere, Anytime: All ONLINE classes are recorded, so if you have to miss a class, you will be given access to the material 24/7.
Schedule of Dates
Day & Time: Mondays 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (PST)
Dates: Oct. 22, 29 – Nov. 5, 12, 19 – Dec. 3, 11, 17 – Jan. 7, 14 – No Class Nov. 26, Dec. 24 & 31
Your teacher is Nadia
What if Class Has Started?
For our adult classes we can accept new students once a course has started on a case-by-case basis up to mid-way through the course. If you join a course late, the course fee will be pro-rated so that you don’t pay for the lessons you missed before joining the class. Contact us.
Textbook Info
For this course the textbook we will using is NEW Italian Espresso 2. You can purchase the books along with your course at the time of registration or you can purchase them from our bookstore at a later date.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Please review our class terms and conditions page here.
