Italian Classes at our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine. Serving students in Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Laguna Beach California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door Orange County offers small interactive Italian classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Italian fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Italian
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette
or CD package that accompanies the
book . For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Greetings and introductions, snack
time, traveling by plane, nationalities, plans for the weekend, and
clothing.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, subject pronouns, "to be", simple
negation, numbers, gender, plural, articles, "to have", telling time,
prepositions, nations and nationalities, the
present tense of regular verbs, some irregular
verbs, question words, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-12)
Topics - Studies, on the telephone, months,
seasons, dates, and weather, the family, food and drink, and a typical day.
Grammar and usage - Additional present tense of regular verbs, additional irregular
verbs, idiomatic usage, ordinal numbers, possessive adjectives, possessive
pronouns, double negatives, reflexive pronouns, reflexive verbs, reciprocal
verbs, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 13-19)
Topics - Asking for and giving directions, radio
and television, traveling by train, in a hotel, the travel agency,
employment, and sports.
Grammar and usage - The imperative, adverbs, gender exceptions, additional idiomatic
usage, punctuation, additional irregular verbs, direct object pronouns, the
present perfect, indirect object pronouns, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-26)
Topics - The home, newspapers, at the bank, the
mail, a doctor's appointment, computers and the internet, and the arts.
Grammar and usage - The conjunctive pronoun ne, future tense, future tense of
irregular verbs, additional idiomatic usage, disjunctive pronouns, the
partitive, suffixes and their uses, the present progressive, additional
imperative tense, the imperfect, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 27-33)
Topics - Music, fruits and vegetables,
groceries, hair, money, a little bit of everything, and a tour of the city.
Grammar and usage - The pluperfect tense, the infinitive as a noun, comparisons,
superlatives, present conditional tense, additional irregular verbs, past
conditional, impersonal si, additional idiomatic usage, present subjunctive,
etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 34-40)
Topics - At the police station, at the pharmacy,
renting a car, in a shoe store, at the office, at a real estate agency, and
Italian culture.
Grammar and usage - Additional present subjunctive, additional irregular verbs,
present perfect subjunctive, relative pronouns, imperfect subjunctive, past
perfect subjunctive, "if" clauses, future perfect, passive form, historical
past, past perfect, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels,
contact our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine.
Feedback from Our Students
"Mina [the teacher] is very good with the students. She recognizes their strengths and weaknesses and guides
the lessons around them. She lets the students take an active role in the lessons and encourages us to try without fear
of failure," Angela.
"I have enjoyed the teacher and the class. The class was at a very nice pace, which allowed me to learn at my speed without being bored,"
Christopher.
"Really great! Having fun and learning loads at the same time. The book is very linear and easy to follow. With my teacher's help, I'm catching on quickly,"
Robert.
"The course is good. I like the fact that there are only 5 or 6 people in the class. The complimentary water and candy are a nice touch,"
Sharon.
"I think the course is going well, and the teacher is good. I like how he expects a lot out of us; it makes me feel like I am getting my money's worth,"
Perry.
"Great course. Happy to have a native speaker - it seems more 'real'. Massimo makes it fun by going 'off the book' at times," Davrick.
"Punctual, excited about teaching the class, willing to help and go over finer points, experienced teaching a language, good class size,"
Geoff.
Language Description
Italian
belongs to Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family
of languages. Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and
there are about 58 million speakers in Italy and 24,00 in San Marino.
Additionally, Italian is spoken by approximately 840,000 in Switzerland where
Italian is one of the official languages.
Further Information
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