Italian After Duolingo

Description

So you spent three months on Duolingo, mastered l’orso beve il latte (“the bear drinks the milk”), then walked into a cafe in Rome and understood absolutely nothing. Sound familiar? Italian After Duolingo is a 6-class summer intensive designed for adults who want to learn Italian the right way — conversationally, without drowning in grammar rules, and with enough laughter to make it stick. In just 6 classes, you will go from “ciao” to holding your own at a dinner table in Italy. Real pronunciation. Real vocabulary. Real conversations. No bears. Taught by a native Italian speaker with the wit and warmth of someone who could easily moonlight as a stand-up comedian, every session is conversational, fast-moving, and light on grammar but don’t let the fun fool you. Students leave with solid, real-world Italian and a foundation strong enough to take them straight into Italian 101.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Review, tips, and tricks on Pronunciation, greetings, how to introduce yourself and others, numbers, time, and everyday vocabulary, and much more along the way
  • Building short phrases, ordering food and wine, talking about yourself, describing things and people, and the idiomatic expressions Italians actually use every day.
  • By the end of class 6, you’ll have everything you need to walk straight into any Italian 101 course… or straight into an Italian restaurant!

This class is perfect for you if:

  • You’ve been on Duolingo for months and still can’t order a coffee without pointing at it
  • You want to finally understand what Italians are saying and why they’re waving their hands like that
  • You want to learn a language and enjoy every single minute of it

All our classes are recorded. Students receive the link to the recording the day after each class.

Schedule of Dates

Location: ONLINE  
Day & Time: Mondays 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (PST)
Class Dates: July 6, 13, 20, 27 – Aug. 3, 10
Your teacher is Barbara

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

There is no textbook for this course.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

Please review our class terms and conditions page here.

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