2964 - Italian per Sharon (Alessandra Brisotto)
Course Description
Instructor: Alessandra Brisotto
This is a special class in memory of our friend and former classmate Sharon Pike. It is a conversational class for intermediate/advanced Italian students with different topics every week. This is not a class for beginners.
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. She loves cats (she has two) and reading novels.
It is recommended that you purchase the textbook Italian Now! Level 1: L’Italiano d’oggi! (Barron’s Foreign Language Guides) if you do not already own it. Amazon.com: Italian Now! Level 1: L'italiano d'oggi! (Barron's Foreign Language Guides): 9781438000060: Danesi Ph.D., Marcel: Books