WINTER SESSION 2026
February 2 – April 11
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
| Tuesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 3 – April 7 (In-Person) |
| Wednesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 4 – April 8 (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: $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 | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 2 – April 6 (Online) |
| Monday | 12 – 2 PM | February 2 – April 6 (In-Person) |
| Monday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 2 – April 6 (In-Person) |
| Tuesday | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 3 – April 7 (In-Person) |
| Tuesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 3 – April 7 (Online) |
| Thursday | 12 – 2 PM | February 5 – April 9 (Online) |
| Thursday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 5 – April 9 (In-Person) |
| Saturday | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 7 – April 11 (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 | February 2 – April 6 (In-Person) |
| Monday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 2 – April 6 (In-Person) |
| Wednesday | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 4 – April 8 (Online) |
| Wednesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 4 – April 8 (Online) |
| Saturday | 12 – 2 PM | February 7 – April 11 (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 | February 2 – April 6 (In-Person) |
| Tuesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 3 – April 7 (Online) |
| Thursday | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 5 – April 9 (Online) |
| Thursday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 5 – Apri 9 (In-Person) |
| Saturday | 10 AM – 12 PM | February 7 – April 11 (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
| Monday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 2 – April 6 (Online) |
| Tuesday | 12 – 2 PM | February 3 – April 7 (In-Person) |
| Wednesday | 6:30 – 8:30 PM | February 4 – April 8 (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: 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