Parliamo Italiano 2! Conversation & Fluency Practice for Intermediate speakers – Monday evenings
Parliamo Italiano 2! Conversation & Fluency Practice is the best way to improve oral fluency through conversational practice.
This course is designed to help Intermediate students improve their oral fluency and confidence in Italian through engaging conversational practice. Each week the instructor will introduce new topics and guide discussions using a variety of materials such as short readings, videos, music, articles, and other resources related to contemporary Italian culture and everyday life.
The class includes 1.5 hours of conversational practice, giving students the opportunity to actively participate, express opinions, and interact with classmates in Italian.
The goal of the course is to create a supportive and dynamic environment where students can practice speaking regularly, expand their vocabulary, and gain confidence communicating in Italian. While the main focus is spoken fluency and interaction, the instructor will also highlight and correct key grammar points when needed and will clarify language questions that emerge during class discussions.
Completion of the Beginner Intermediate 2 Course is recommended.
What you will learn
- Students will expand their vocabulary in a way that will benefit both general conversation and discussion of specific topics
- Students will familiarize themselves with a variety of current issues relating to Italy
- Improve speaking fluency and confidence through regular interaction in Italian about several topics, ranging from social and political issues to media, pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports
- Strengthen grammatical accuracy through short reviews connected to each week’s conversation topics
Syllabus
Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Students will be provided with handouts and class materials.
No textbook is required
Thursday evening, April 16 to June 25, 2026
5:00 pm- 6:30 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet once a week on Zoom.
Course Fee
Early Bird Rate 210$ (+5%GST) – available until April 1st
240$ (+ GST) after April 2nd
Course Cancellations
Please note that the school administration may cancel courses due to low enrollment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit the Cancellation & Refund policy
Speakers
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Anna LanzaniAnna is an international business consultant with extensive economic training. She graduated in 2001 cum laude in International Economics in Pavia and in Management International in Strasbourg (EM), she obtained a master’s degree in Strategic Marketing in London (2007) and an MBA in Buenos Aires ( 2016). Beside working 20 years as marketing executive and consultant in leading companies and in the promotion of Made in Italy in Europe, Asia and South America, Anna always cultivated her passion for italian culture, language and cuisine and is a certified language trainer (CEDILS -Ca’ Foscari) with more than 850 hours of university -level teaching experience. Her teaching mixes different approaches, integrating CLIL and TPR.
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Sonia Dal TortoI was born in the small region of Molise and then moved to the north of Italy (Emilia-Romagna) at the age of 19. There I obtained my Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Protection of Human Rights. I discovered the passion for teaching while working as Assistant Grant Writer in an NGO in Greece. There I started to teach Italian to young refugees and to hold seminars about human rights in high schools and other non-formal educational settings. Once back in Italy, I continued to teach Italian to migrants and I started to study at Università per Stranieri di Siena.
Furthermore, as a Grant Writer, I had the chance to promote inclusion and diversity in the education system, thanks to proposals I made in the areas of Youth and Children, Disabled people, Education and Social Services. I proposed strategies for parents, teachers and community workers to confront educational poverty in disadvantaged backgrounds, introducing intercultural teaching practices with the help of cultural-linguistic mediators.
To me teaching holds so many invaluable meanings: it is turning into success the potential that every student has; it is understanding our communities to build better ones; it is a life-learning process thanks to the engagement with students from different backgrounds; it is falling in love every time with the Italian culture.
