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Beginner Levels

SPRING SESSION 2026
April 20 – June 27

Beginner Conversation  – Let’s go to Italy!

Want to get a warm welcome when you travel to Italy? Have a little time before traveling? You don’t necessarily need to take a whole year of Italian to be able to communicate in Belpaese. This beginner conversation class covers Italian for practical scenarios, exactly the kind you’re bound to encounter while strolling around abroad.

Schedule of Classes

Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 22 – June 24 (In-Person)

Length of lessons: 2 hours  Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

When to register: Registration is currently open

Registration prerequisites: none Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $475.00 Materials included

Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex

Textbook:  Let’s Go to Italy!

 

Basic Italian 1 

Communicative goals include greetings and introducing oneself, asking for basic information, talking about professions, expressing likes and dislikes. The grammatical structures include present tense of regular verbs and piacere, articles, nouns, possessive adjectives, demonstrative pronouns, and prepositions.

Schedule of Classes

Monday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 20 – June 22 (Online)
Tuesday 12 – 2 PM April 21 – June 23 (In-Person)
Tuesday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 21 – June 23 (In-Person)
Wednesday 10 AM – 12 PM April 22 – June 24 (Online)
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 21 – June 23 (In-Person)
Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM April 25 – June 27 (Online)

Length of lessons: 2 hours Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

When to register: Registration is currently open

Registration prerequisites: none Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $460.00 Materials not included Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex

Textbook: New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 1 – 4

 

Basic Italian 2

Communicative goals include: describing a city, following and giving street directions, asking and telling time, asking for info on accommodation, talk about past actions, and understand descriptions of past events. The grammatical structures include: present tense of some irregular and modal verbs, past tense, frequent irregular past participles, noun-adjective agreement, compound prepositions.

Schedule of Classes

Monday 10 AM – 12 PM April 20 – June 22 (Online)
Monday 12 – 2 PM April 20 – June 22 (In-Person)
Monday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 20 – June 22 (In-Person)
Tuesday 10 AM – 12 PM April 21 – June 23 (In-Person)
Tuesday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 21 – June 23 (Online)
Thursday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 23 – June 25 (In-Person)
Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM April 25 – June 27 (Online)

                                                              

Length of lessons: 2 hours Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

When to register: Registration is currently open

Registration prerequisites: Basic Italian 1 or equivalent Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $460.00 Materials not included Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex

Textbook: New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 5 – 7

 

Basic Italian 3

Communicative goals include describing and asking about one’s work routine, saying the date, talking about national holidays, describing a family tree, talking about one’s eating habits, understanding recipe’s instructions, talking about future actions, shopping for clothes and shoes. The grammatical structures include present and past tense of reflexive verbs, future tense, conditional; possessive adjectives (family), partitive “ne”, direct and indirect pronouns.

Schedule of Classes         

Monday 10 AM – 12 PM April 20 – June 22 (In-Person)
Monday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 20 – June 22 (In-Person)
Wednesday 10 AM – 12 PM April 22 – June 24 (Online)
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 PM April 22 – June 24 (Online)
Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM April 25 – June 27 (Online)

                                                                          

Length of lessons: 2 hours Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

When to register: Registration is currently open

Registration prerequisites: Basic Italian 2 or equivalent Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $460.00 Materials not included Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex

Textbook: New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 8 – 11

 

Basic Italian Review

Basic conversation is combined with a review of the grammar learned in Basic Italian 1, 2 & 3.

Schedule of Classes

Thursday 10 AM – 12 PM April 23 – June 25 (Online)

Length of lessons: 2 hours Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

When to register: Registration is currently open

Registration prerequisites: Basic Italian 3 Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $460.00 Materials not included Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex

Textbook: New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 1 – 11

 

Basic Italian Conversation

Summer quarter only Students will practice conversation – work on their fluency and comprehension skills.

Schedule of Classes

Length of lessons: 2 or 4 hours Total hours: 20 hours

Number of students: minimum of 5

Registration

When to register: Registration is not currently open

Registration prerequisites: Basic Italian 3 or equivalent Entrance exam: none

Course fee: $460.00 Payment method: Visa/MasterCard/Amex