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Italian Classes at our Language Door School in San Diego. Serving students in San Diego, El Cajon, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, La Jolla California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door San Diego 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.
Who can't resist the passion of the Italian language?
A universally popular lanaguage for students, Italian often competes with French to be the most romantic language. What do you think?
Italian is a Romance language, which means that Italian, just like Spanish, French, and Portuguese, is a child of Latin. Latin was once the official language in a large part of Europe because the Romans ruled so much of the area. Before the Romans came, people spoke their own languages, and the mixture of these original tongues with Latin produced many of the languages and dialects that are still in use today.If you know one of the Romance languages, you can often understand bits of another. Just as members of the same family can look similar but have totally different characters. You find the same contradictions in the dialects (regional or local language differences) in Italy and in other countries.If you visit Italy, you’ll hear various accents and dialects as you travel the country. Despite the number of dialects, you may be surprised to discover that everybody understands your Italian and you understand theirs. (Italians don’t normally speak in their dialect with foreigners.)
Italian is the official language of Italiy and is spoken by about 70 million people, primarily in this country.It's the official language of San Marino as well, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, spoken mainly in Ticino and Grigioni cantons. It is also the second official language in Vatican City and in some areas of Istria in Slovenia and Croatia with an Italian minority. It is also widely known and taught in Monaco and Malta.[1] It is also widely spoken in Corsica and Nice (for both were former Italian possessions before being handed over to France), and Albania.Italian is most closely related to the other two Italo-Dalmatian languages, Sicilian and the extinct Dalmatian. The three are part of the Italo-Western grouping of the Romance languages, which are a subgroup of the Italic branch of Indo-European.
Classification: Linguistically speaking, the Italian language is a member of the Italo-Dalmatian group of languages, which is part of the Italo-Western grouping of the Romance languages, which are a subgroup of the Italic branch of Indo-European.
Geographic distribution: Italian is an official language of Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Slovenia, Vatican City and in some areas of Istria in Slovenia and Croatia with an Italian minority. It is also widely known and taught in Monaco and Malta. It is also widely spoken in Corsica and Nice (for both were former Italian possessions before being handed over to France), and Albania... »
Official status: Italian is the official language of Italy, San Marino and an official language in the Ticino and Grigioni cantons or regions of Switzerland.
Dialects: Dialects of Italian are regional varieties (Tuscan, Central Italian) which are closely related to Standard Italian, while the terms Dialects of Italy is suggested for those idioms, such as Neapolitan, Sicilian, and Gallo-Italian languages which show considerable differences in grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
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 the levels of Italian Classes,
contact us at our San Diego Language Door School
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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