Early Registration (5/1-5/26): $418

Reg. Registration (5/27-8/14): $440

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

Thursday 6:30pm-8:00pm

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

Preliminar

·  The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation  

·  Greetings

·  Months of the year & days of the week

·  Colors

·  Numbers: ordinal and cardinal;

·  Fractions; divisions; multiplication; adding and subtracting 

Grammar

Unit # 17   Nouns and articles pg. 190

Unit # 18   Adjectives pg. 211

Unit # 19   Personal pronouns ( primera parte ) pg. 225

Unit # 3     SER and ESTAR  pg. 27

Unit # 1     Present tense of regular verbs; irregular verbs & verbs with spelling change  pg. 1

Unit # 2     Present Tense of verbs with stem change  pg. 18

Unit # 26   Numbers  pg. 308

Unit # 25   Interrogative and Exclamatory words pg. 301

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:  

**NEW** Asi Es Spanish Edition   by  Nancy Levy-Konesky; Karen Daggett, 

ISBN 0030259282

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

Early Registration (5/1-5/26): $418

Reg. Registration (5/27-8/14): $440

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

Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm

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:  ***NOTE***  We are using new books this year.

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