La Causerie Française

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

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

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

Fridays 11:30am-12:55pm

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