3616 - Italian Beginner 2 (Brisotto, Giannasca)
Course Description
Italian – Beginner 2 Lessons 8-13
Embark on your journey into the beautiful Italian language! This Beginner 2, introductory course uses Italian Now! Level 1: L’Italiano d’oggi! (Barron’s Foreign Language Guides, by Marcel Danesi) as the required textbook and is designed for those with little or no prior experience. Through lively instruction, guided practice, and cultural context, students will develop a foundation in Italian vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
Each week builds on the previous lessons, with the goal of mastering essential communication skills.
After this class, students will be able to:
- use the vocabulary and phrases concerning days of the week, seasons and months
- use possessive adjectives and family member terminology
- conjugate the three regular verbs and create sentences with them
- give and receive directions and ask questions about shopping
- have a basic conversation in Italian using the present tense of verbs studied
- use irregular verbs like andare, venire, fare, volere.
Book:
Title: Italian Now! Level 1: L’Italiano d’oggi! (Barron’s Foreign Language Guides)
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Services, 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 9781438000060.
All students are encouraged to complete our Italian Knowledge Survey before registering to ensure placement in the correct class level—since everyone learns at a different pace.
Classes will be taught by one of our experienced Italian instructors, Antonella Giannasca or Alessandra Brisotto, who will be assigned after registrations are complete.
This course provides the perfect foundation for continuing to Italian Intermediate 1—and a lifelong appreciation for the Italian language and culture.
Bio: Alessandra Brisotto was born and raised in Prato, near Florence, Italy. After completing her studies, she worked for a travel agency for 10 years. She then moved to Bergamo, 25 miles east of Milan, where she worked for a travel agency and an airline company, before moving to the United States with her husband Paolo. She lived in Tampa Bay, Florida, for 10 years, and moved to Atlanta in 2010. After working for Italiano Language Center in Sandy Springs, she joined OLLI at Emory in 2019, where she teaches Italian beginner and intermediate both in person and online. She is also teaching at Central Dekalb Senior Center in Decatur, as well as giving Italian lessons to private students of different levels. Alessandra has two children, 26-year-old Marta and 21-year-old Pietro, both bilingual. She spends every summer with them visiting the family in Italy.
BIO: Antonella Giannasca, I have been teaching Italian for 26 years since I moved to the States. I love my language and my culture. My great love is to be able to teach Italian to my students and share the love that I have with them. I was born and raised in Rome, Italy and I have been a Tour Director for many years, and I love to teach and prepare my students