{"id":550,"date":"2023-07-12T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiclosangeles.esteri.it\/lingua-e-cultura\/i-corsi-di-lingua\/calendario-dei-corsi\/principianti\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:29:26","slug":"principianti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iiclosangeles.esteri.it\/en\/lingua-e-cultura\/i-corsi-di-lingua\/calendario-dei-corsi\/principianti\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUMMER SESSION 2026<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>July 6 &#8211; August 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Basic Conversation\u00a0 for travel &#8211; Let&#8217;s go to Italy!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Want to get a warm welcome when you travel to Italy? Have a little time before traveling? You don\u2019t 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\u2019re bound to encounter while strolling around abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"705\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>10 AM \u2013 12 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 6 \u2013 August 5 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 <\/strong>(Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons<\/strong>: 2 hours\u00a0 <strong>Total hours<\/strong>: 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites:<\/strong> none <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $475.00 Materials included<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let&#8217;s Go to Italy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basic Italian 1<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"705\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>10 AM \u2013 12 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 6 \u2013 August 5 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 6 \u2013 August 5 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 6 \u2013 August 5 (Online )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">10 AM &#8211; 12 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 7 \u2013 August 6 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>12 \u2013 2 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Saturday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">10 AM \u2013 2 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 11 \u2013 August 8 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons<\/strong>: 2 or 4 hours <strong>Total hours<\/strong>: 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites:<\/strong> none <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $460.00 Materials not included <strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<\/strong> New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner &amp; Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 1 &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Basic Italian 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"705\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 6 \u2013 August 5 (Online )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>12 \u2013 2 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Saturday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">10 AM \u2013 2 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 11 \u2013 August 8 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons:<\/strong> 2 or 4 hours <strong>Total hours:<\/strong> 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites:<\/strong> Basic Italian 1 or equivalent <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $460.00 Materials not included <strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<\/strong> New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner &amp; Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 5 \u2013 7<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Basic Italian<\/strong><strong> 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Communicative goals include describing and asking about one\u2019s work routine, saying the date, talking about national holidays, describing a family tree, talking about one\u2019s eating habits, understanding recipe\u2019s 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 \u201cne\u201d, direct and indirect pronouns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"705\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>10 AM \u2013 2 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 (In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 <\/strong><strong>(In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 7 \u2013 August 6 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons:<\/strong> 2 hours <strong>Total hours:<\/strong> 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites: <\/strong>Basic Italian 2 or equivalent <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $460.00 Materials not included <strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<\/strong> New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner &amp; Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. Chapters 8 \u2013 11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Basic Italian Conversation<\/strong><\/span><strong> &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Summer quarter only <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students will practice conversation &#8211; work on their fluency and comprehension skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"705\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>10 AM &#8211; 12 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 6 \u2013 August 5 <\/strong><strong>(In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">10 AM &#8211; 12 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 6 \u2013 August 5 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Monday &amp; Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 6 \u2013 August 5 <\/strong><strong>(In-Person)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"138\"><strong>12 &#8211; 2 PM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"245\"><strong>July 7 \u2013 August 6 (In-Person )<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Tuesday &amp; Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">6:30 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 7 \u2013 August 6 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"180\">Saturday<\/td>\n<td width=\"138\">10 AM \u2013 2 PM<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">July 11 \u2013 August 8 (Online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons:<\/strong> 2 or 4 hours <strong>Total hours:<\/strong> 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is not currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites:<\/strong> Basic Italian 3 or equivalent <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $460.00 <strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Basic Italian Review<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Basic conversation is combined with a review of the grammar learned in Basic Italian 1, 2 &amp; 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Classes <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length of lessons:<\/strong> 2 hours <strong>Total hours:<\/strong> 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of students:<\/strong> minimum of 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to register:<\/strong> Registration is currently open<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration prerequisites:<\/strong> Basic Italian 3 <strong>Entrance exam:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course fee:<\/strong> $460.00 Materials not included <strong>Payment method:<\/strong> Visa\/MasterCard\/Amex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<\/strong> New Italian Espresso Textbook (Beginner &amp; Pre-Intermediate) for English speakers, Alma Edizioni. 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