Would you like to write your own texts, e-mails, letters, short stories , or journal in Italian? We will learn how to recognize different writing styles and register. Through a series of guided exercises, participants will have the opportunity to build on their – no doubt already spectacular – Italian writing skills. (Requirement: B1+ Italian…
I need more words! Being a language instructor, an immigrant, and a language learner, I would consider myself quite experienced when it comes to understanding overwhelming feelings. In another post, I have already mentioned that one of the deepest frustrations students have to overcome is the fact of (initially) not having a vocabulary that is…
In my previous post, I mentioned that, together with prepositions, the conditional sentences (also known as If-clauses) are quite challenging. The longest “If-clause” I have ever read is a beautiful and motivational poem by Rudyard Kipling that I cherish deep in my heart – If. However, If you prefer music to literature, the song “Bad”…
Listening skills: What a disaster! Some students struggle with the listening part more than with their speaking. In class, everything seems to be going well, then we turn on that TV and we get completely lost, sucked – together with our ephemeral self-confidence – into a vortex of indecipherable words. Most of the times, we…
How many of us have the words “detail oriented” in our resume? Well, today’s post is all about details. One of the first things that I like to say when I meet new students is, Don’t be shy, and play around! Make your words sound Italian, for example, and you’ll be surprised to see that…