In this course, we will focus on developing reading and writing proficiency in Italian, as well as learning to speak with correct intonation, starting from the basics.

Session I: Summary: 
Week 1: Introduction to the Italian Language. Learn how to introduce ourselves, the sounds of vowels and consonants. Constructing syllables.

Week 2: Practical vocabulary, nouns (people, places, and things). How to greet others. How to use polite words. Review. 

Week 3: Introduction to reading, pronouncing, and writing the sounds "che, chi, ghe, and ghi".  Words about the weather.  Review. 

Week 4: Introduction to reading, speaking, and writing the sounds "sci, sce, sche, schi". Small sentences with the days of the week and the months of the year.   Review. 

Week 5:  Introduction to reading, speaking, and writing the sounds "gna, gne, gni, gno, gnu". Small sentences with the colors. Review. 

Week 6: Introduction to reading, and speaking. The numbers: basic units, counting by tens, hundreds, and thousands. Review. 

Week 7: Reading and speaking, continued. The sounds of double consonants. Small sentences with family vocabulary. Review. 

Week 8: Reading, speaking, and writing practice. Double consonants continued: how omitting/adding a consonant changes the meaning of a word. The sounds gli, glie. The parts of the body. Review.