Early Registration (5/1-6/3): $420

Reg. Registration (6/4-8/14): $440

Late Registration (8/15-9/30):$460

Thursdays 5:00pm-6:25pm

Class Description: 

This grammar course is for students who have learned the basic elements of the Spanish language. It builds on what has been learned in Spanish 1 and 2.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics.

Preface: 

Pronunciation

Alphabet

Greetings and Salutations

Orthography

Topics:

The Present Subjunctive

The Present Subjunctive

Commands

Nouns, Articles, Adjectives, and Pronouns

The Present Perfect Tense

The Past Perfect Tense

Prerequisite: The material covered in Spanish 1 and 2.

Instruction: The instructor will speak in Spanish during most classroom activities, but when necessary, she will move briefly into English in order to make grammatical explanations clearer. Homework assignments will be from the book and the accompanying workbook.

Book/Materials: Complete Spanish Step-By-Step, 2nd edition, by Barbara Bregstein, ISBN 9781260463132

Early Registration (5/1-6/3): $420

Reg. Registration (6/4-8/14): $440

Late Registration (8/15-9/30):$460

Thursdays 5:30pm-6:55pm

Class Description: 

Italian 2 is the second Italian class and will pick up where Italian 1 left off.   We will spend the first weeks of class reviewing the material covered in level 1 and then start our new material.

Main Grammatical Concepts:

Past tenses: passato prossimo, imperfetto and trapassato

Articulated prepositions (preposition + article contractions)

Indirect Object Pronouns

Agreement with direct object pronouns and the passato prossimo

The verb piacere

Reflexive and reciprocal verbs

Adverbs

Vocabulary themes will include:

Pastimes/hobbies

Food/Restaurant

Clothing

Larger numbers

Mass media

Prerequisites: Italian 1 or equivalent. Students should be familiar with: basic pronunciation, gender and plural formation, agreement including articles and adjectives, present tense verbs both regular and irregular, basic sentence and question formation.  You should be able to hold a basic conversation in the present tense.

Books/Materials:  

Prego! An Invitation to Italian (Student Edition) 6th Edition ISBN: 978-0072561319

Learn Italian with Short Stories for Adult Beginners. ISBN: 9798370453410

The Ultimate Italian Review and Practice, by David Stillman ISBN: 1260453510

Early Registration (5/1-6/3): $420

Reg. Registration (6/4-8/14): $440

Late Registration (8/15-9/30):$460

Thursday 5:30pm-6:55pm

Class Description:

This Spanish grammar course is intended for students who have never before studied Spanish or for those who have not used the language for so long that they need to start over.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics.

Preface: 

Pronunciation

Alphabet

Greetings and Salutations

Topics:

Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives

Estar, Ser, and Subject Pronouns

Hay, Interrogative Words, Days, Months, Seasons

Numbers, Dates, and Time

Regular Verbs

Irregular Verbs

Ir and the Future

Adjectives and Adverbs

Negative and Prepositions

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework from the textbook and accompanying workbook.

Prerequisite: None 

Book/Materials: Complete Spanish Step-By-Step, 2nd edition, by Barbara Bregstein, ISBN 9781260463132

Early Registration (5/1-6/3): $420

Reg. Registration (6/4-8/14): $440

Late Registration (8/15-9/30):$460

Thursdays 6:30pm-7:55pm

Class Description:  This grammar course is for students who have been introduced to the Spanish language but are still at a beginning level. Typically, students should have completed Spanish 1 at La Causerie or have taken several years of high-school Spanish, a couple of semesters of college Spanish, or have had an equivalent life experience (lived abroad, etc.) that gives them some pronunciation skills and a basic foundation of vocabulary.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics.

Preface: 

Pronunciation

Alphabet

Greetings and Salutations

Topics:

The Indirect Object

The Direct Object

Reflexive Verbs

The Preterit Tense

The Imperfect Tense

Ser and Estar and the Present Tense

Ser and Estar in the Preterit and Imperfect Tenses

The Present Progressive Tense

The Past Progressive Tenses

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework. 

Prerequisite: Knowledge of the material covered in Spanish 1.

Book/Materials: 

For Thursday evening class: 

Así Es (Spanish Edition), by  Nancy Levy-Konesky; Karen Daggett, ISBN 0030259282

501 Spanish Verbs, 10th Edition (Paperback or Soft-back)

Early Registration (5/1-6/3): $420

Reg. Registration (6/4-8/14): $440

Late Registration (8/15-9/30):$460

Thursdays 7:00pm-8:25pm

Class Description: Italian I is an introductory course designed for students who have never before studied Italian or for those who may have previously studied some Italian but not used it for many years. We will start from the very beginning assuming no previous knowledge of the language.  Through active participation in class and at-home review and assignments this class provides students with the foundations of the Italian language.

Grammatical Concepts:

Alphabet and pronunciation

Use of genders and singular/plural

Definite and indefinite articles (the/a) 

Basic sentence and question formation 

Adjectives: agreement and placement

Present tense verbs:regular and irregular

The expressions c’è and ci sono (there is/there are) 

Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her etc) 

Demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those) 

Direct object pronouns 

Vocabulary themes will include:

Greetings and salutations 

Numbers

Basic conversational phrases

Food and beverages

Day, date, seasons

Places

Asking for and giving directions

Descriptive adjectives/colors

Family

Weather

Time

Pastimes/hobbies

Prerequisites: None

Books/Materials: Prego! An Invitation to Italian (Student Edition) 6th Edition ISBN: 978-0072561319