“LINGUA BELLA” Advanced

COURSE INFO

Group Courses
24 weeks/ 24 hours in total
Cost of each course $400 ( only $16.5 /hour)
space limited to 12 students/course
certificate of completion

COURSE SCHEDULE

January 6th, 2021
“Lingua Bella”
Wednesdays.
9 am ET/10.30 am ET
or
7.30 pm Et/9.00 pm ET
+
Saturdays 11.00 am ET/11.30 am ET

COURSE DESCRIPTION

At this level, students are considered to be proficient speakers of Italian. They can handle a large variety of complex ideas and situations, express themselves spontaneously and fluently, talking about personal, professional, or academic topics.

The course is aimed at perfecting the essential communication skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing with perfect command of the conditional and subjunctive) across a variety of different registers. Students will also expand their vocabulary to include topics beyond everyday conversation.

Great emphasis is put on written and oral production. Students will analyze and practice different types of text and genres. Italian culture is also an integral part of the course. Through various studying material, students will learn about many aspects of Italian grammar, art, history, politics and modern society.

Among other things, students will learn:
To communicate using appropriate registers in different formal and informal situations
To recognized regional varieties of the language
To read contemporary Italian literature
To describe events and narrate stories with great precision
To express what might have happened in the past
To differentiate homographs
To use idiomatic expressions accurately in the right context
To use and understand neologisms