| Status: | Temporarily inactive |
| When: | Mornings Three morning per month, currently choosing which day of the week will best suit those who have expressed an interest. It could be Tuesday morning, Friday morning or Thursday morning. |
Seeking a new convenor
This will be a group for people who already have some Italian and wish to make visible progress by learning together regularly.
You are at the right level to join us if you :
- Can speak in sentences, talking about what you would like, what you are doing and what you have done.
- Have a vocabulary of more than 300 words
- Can understand more than you can say.
You have the right approach to learning for our group if you are able to:
- Come 3 times a month (weeks 2, 3 and 4) so that we learn quickly together by having consecutive meetings. In weeks 2 and 4 we will meet for an hour and a half, and week 3 will be just for an hour.
- Play, laugh and enjoy language games together to consolidate our learning
- Buy the BBC resources, which we will use as the basis for our progress, which are available second-hand on-line at moderate cost. These are: BBC Talk Italian 2 (2007, book plus 3 CDs) and BBC Italian Grammar (book).
- Complete two short tasks between each meeting - a consolidation task, where you do an exercise based upon what we learned in the meeting we’ve just had, and a preparation task where you do something connected with the next topic.
If you are interested in joining us, please prepare for the group by using these two outstanding Italian Apps, which both use British English, a structured approach to learning, based upon educational good practice, and Italian speakers with excellent diction:
- Next Steps in Italian with Paul Noble (Collins) Start this App at Chapter 68, which reviews the entry-level course in the same series, and then begin at Chapter One for intermediate-level Italian.
- Earworms Rapid Italian volumes 1-3. Volumes 1&2 are available together on Audible for the same cost as Volume 3.