Intermediate 1 (in-person) – Monday evenings

Our Intermediate 1 course is great to build knowledge and strengthen your skills. Whether you’re buying a holiday home in Italy or taking a road trip along the Amalfi Coast, this course will equip you with helpful vocabulary for everyday conversation. You will continue to build on previously acquired competencies in A1 and you will be introduced to more complex language structures used to communicate in a variety of situations by using different tenses and modes. Aligned with CEFR level A2 objectives.

Completion of Beginner 3 and Conversation 1 Courses is recommended. Or if you can have simple intermediate-level conversations on familiar topics, this level is ideal.

What you will learn

  • Students will understand and ask for information about how to shop for clothes, describe someone’s physical appearance or personality, express wishes, and desires, and talk about childhood memories. Furthermore, you will make comparisons, you will argue in favor or against something, and you will be able to provide advice
  • You will focus on the imperfetto tense, so you can talk about the past and how this differs from passato prossimo, which we will also revise.
  • Italian culture from newspaper articles extracts from novels, films, and audio clips are also used to add authenticity and context to your learning.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 2 – The course consists of Chapters 1,2,3,4

Schedule

Monday evenings, January 13 to March 24, 2024
4:00 pm-6:00 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet once a week in our downtown premises.

Courses Fee

Early Bird Rate 289$ (+5%GST) – available until December 24

310$ (+ GST) – available after December 25

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy.

Lingua Viva: Advanced Italian in Context – Saturday evenings

Lingua Viva: Advanced Italian in Context will elevate your Italian by expanding your vocabulary—whether through technical terms, colloquial expressions, or various styles of the language—and refining your grammar, especially complex sentence structures. You will engage with contemporary literary texts, explore Italian culture, and dive into current events through excerpts from TV shows, films, and more. Lingua Viva offers an immersive experience that deepens your understanding of Italy’s rich heritage and its present-day realities.

This course is for students who have completed Advanced 2 or 3 course, or for those who have advanced experience with the Italian language and are comfortable having conversations in different verb tenses, are able to converse with native speakers, follow debates and discuss current issues using more complex structures.

What you will learn

  • You will enhance your ability to understand and follow a variety of spoken Italian, from everyday conversations to complex arguments, and engage with native speakers with greater fluency and spontaneity.
  • You will also learn to express yourself clearly and in detail on diverse cultural topics, including Italian literature, current events, and contemporary issues that shape Italy today.
  • Additionally, you will immerse yourself in figurative, metaphorical, and idiomatic expressions of the Italian language, mastering words with double meanings, refining your use of the subjunctive in conversation, and gaining confidence with complex prepositions and grammatical structures.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Students will be provided with handouts and class materials.
No textbook is required.

Schedule

Saturday evenings, FROM January 18 TO March 8, 2025
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm PST
8 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Course Fee

180$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

200$ (+5% GST) FROM December 25th

 

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Master your Writing Skills – Monday evenings

Boost your writing skills with this course designed to help you become a more effective and confident writer. Whether you want to improve your writing for school, work, or personal projects, this course covers the basics of organizing your thoughts, polishing your grammar, expanding your vocabulary, and tailoring your writing to different audiences. Through simple exercises, practical tips, and constructive feedback, you’ll learn how to express your ideas more clearly and naturally.

Intermediate 1 level is required!

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
No Textbook is required

Schedule

Monday evenings FROM February 17 TO March 10, 2025
5 pm – 6 pm PST
4 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM

Courses Fee

120$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 14th

140$ (+5% GST) FROM December 15th

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Phonetics for Beginners – Thursday evenings

Enhance your Italian pronunciation and speak with confidence in Phonetics for Beginners.

This course is designed for those new to Italian or anyone looking to refine their accent and pronunciation skills. You will learn the basics of Italian phonetics, including how to correctly produce vowel and consonant sounds, master the rhythm and intonation of the language, and tackle common pronunciation challenges. Through interactive lessons and practical exercises, you’ll build a strong foundation in speaking Italian clearly and accurately.

No prior experience is needed—just bring your enthusiasm and a willingness to learn! Join us and start speaking Italian with the confidence of a native!

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
No Textbook is required

Schedule

Thursday evenings, FROM February 20 TO March 13, 2025
5 pm – 6 pm PST
4 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM

Courses Fee

120$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 14th

140$ (+ 5% GST) FROM December 15th

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Intermediate 1 (Online) – Tuesday evenings

Our Intermediate 1 course is great to build knowledge and strengthen your skills. Whether you’re buying a holiday home in Italy or taking a road trip along the Amalfi Coast, this course will equip you with helpful vocabulary for everyday conversation. You will continue to build on previously acquired competencies in A1 and you will be introduced to more complex language structures used to communicate in a variety of situations by using different tenses and modes. Aligned with CEFR level A2 objectives.

Completion of Beginner 3 and Conversation 1 Courses is recommended. Or if you can have simple intermediate-level conversations on familiar topics, this level is ideal.

What you will learn

  • Students will understand and ask for information about how to shop for clothes, describe someone’s physical appearance or personality, express wishes, and desires, and talk about childhood memories. Furthermore, you will make comparisons, you will argue in favor or against something, and you will be able to provide advice
  • You will focus on the imperfetto tense, so you can talk about the past and how this differs from passato prossimo, which we will also revise.
  • Italian culture from newspaper articles extracts from novels, films, and audio clips are also used to add authenticity and context to your learning.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 2 – The course consists of Chapters 1,2,3,4

Schedule

Tuesday evenings, FROM January 14 to March 25, 2025
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Courses Fee

250$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

270$ (+5% GST) FROM December 25th

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy.

Beginner 3 (Online) – Wednesday evenings

Beginner 3 is a continuation of foundational elements of the Italian language. Development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in the context of everyday situations in the present and past tenses.

This course is being delivered virtually with live instruction and interaction.

What you will learn

  • How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as practicing talking about your daily life, past events, holidays, and your family. For instance, you will talk about your purchases, simulating the situation of a grocery shop.
  • Basic grammar structures such as past tenses of regular and irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, pronouns, superlative assoluto, and adverbs of frequency. Increase grammar skills to build more conversation
  • Italian culture.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso – The course consists of Chapters 8,9, 10

Schedule

Wednesday evenings, FROM January 15 TO March 26, 2025
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM

Courses Fee

250$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

270$ (+5% GST) FROM December 25th

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Advanced Plus (Online) – Tuesday evenings

Advanced PLUS will help you to further improve your vocabulary (whether it is technical terminology, colloquial expressions, or different styles of Italian) and grammar (complex sentences). You will work on extracts from TV shows, commercials, and films in standard Italian. We will analyze literary texts by contemporary authors.

This course is for students who have completed Advanced 2 or 3 course, or for those who have advanced experience with the Italian language and are comfortable having conversations in different verb tenses, are able to converse with native speakers, follow debates and discuss current issues using more complex structures.

What you will learn

  • You will acquire the ability to understand speeches of various lengths and follow even complex arguments and to achieve a degree of fluency and spontaneity to interact with native speakers
  • You will acquire the ability to produce clear, detailed descriptions of a wide range of cultural topics and current events of interest to them.
  • You will learn and assimilate figurative, metaphorical, and idiomatic expressions of the Italian language, words with double meaning, the use of the subjunctive through conversation, the use of complex prepositions, and grammar structure

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Students will be provided with handouts and class materials.
No textbook is required.

Schedule

Tuesday evenings, FROM February 4 TO March 25, 2025
6 pm – 8 pm PST
8 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week on ZOOM.

Course Fee

180$ (+5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

200$ (+5% GST) FROM December 25th

 

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Intermediate 2 (Online) – Monday evenings

Our Intermediate 2 course will focus on expanding fundamental notions and presentation of elaborate structures, present, past and imperative tenses, and different modes. You will enhance your ability to comprehend, interact and express yourself in common personal and social contexts. Enriched opportunities to explore Italian culture and develop intercultural skills. Aligned with CEFR level A2 objectives.

Completion of the Intermediate 1 course is recommended.

What you will learn

  • Students will continue to expand their vocabulary and develop the complexity of their sentences in everyday situations, like learning how to express surprise, ask for the duration and cost of a trip, talk about their holidays, learn to interact on social media in Italian
describe food and taste
  • Focus on speaking correctly and distinguishing between regular and irregular past, present and imperative tenses, pronouns, and verbs pronominal
  • Deepen understanding of the nuances of Italian, including correct registers of language to use in various situations.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso 2 – The course consists of Chapters 5, 6, 7

Schedule

Monday evenings, January 13 to March 24, 2025
6 pm – 8 pm PST
11 weeks – Classes meet ONCE a week ONLINE on Zoom.

Courses Fee

250$ (+ 5% GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

270$ (+ 5% GST) from December 25th

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy.

Conversation 1 (In-Person) – Wednesday evenings

Conversation 1 is the best way to improve oral fluency through conversational practice.

Teachers will bring new topics to discuss every week and will prompt the conversation in different ways such as a selection of guided conversations in Italian, questions, and brief exercises relating to contemporary Italy, taken from different sources (short readings, websites, videos, music, etc.) that will help you to gain more self-confidence.

Spoken accuracy and fluency are the focus of this course, but the teacher will signal and correct the main grammar mistakes too and will be at the student’s disposal in case there is a need to clarify some concepts to improve learners’ accuracy while speaking.

Completion of the Beginner 3 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
  • Students will develop their communicative skills in Italian through discussion of several topics, ranging from social and political issues to media, pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports

 

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!

Students will be provided with handouts and class materials.

No textbook is required

Wednesday evening, January 15 to March 19, 2025
5 pm – 6 pm PST
10 weeks – Classes meet once a week in our downtown school

Course Fee

140$ (+ GST) Early Bird Rate available until December 24th

160$ (+ GST) from December 25th

 

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.

For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund policy

 

Beginner 3 (In-person) – Tuesday evenings

Beginner 3 is a continuation of foundational elements of the Italian language. Development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in the context of everyday situations in the present and past tenses.

This course is being delivered virtually with live instruction and interaction.

What you will learn

  • How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as practicing talking about your daily life, past events, holidays, and your family. For instance, you will talk about your purchases, simulating the situation of a grocery shop.
  • Basic grammar structures such as past tenses of regular and irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, pronouns, superlative assoluto, and adverbs of frequency. Increase grammar skills to build more conversation
  • Italian culture.

Syllabus

Benvenute e Benvenuti!
Textbook: Nuovo Espresso – The course consists of Chapters 8, 9, 10

Schedule

Wednesday evenings, FROM January 14 TO March 25, 2025
6:00 pm-8:00 pm PST
Classes meet once a week in our downtown school

Courses Fee

Early Bird 289$ (+5%GST) – available until December 24

Regular Price 310$ (+ GST) from December 25

Course Cancellations

Please note that the school administration may cancel courses at any time due to low enrolment. Upon cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund.
For any further info about our cancellation policy please visit Cancellation & Refund Policy.