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| ExRN Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3388 days ago 61 posts - 75 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 2 17 October 2015 at 3:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Currently going into week three of Italian at university and totally comfortable with the pace of the
teaching. Officially we have two hours speaking lessons, two hours of grammar and one hour of comprehension. I am in the beginners and improvers class for Italian but I do know a significant amount already, I just struggle to produce it. Week one I just went to lessons to test the water and see the style of teaching. We use a textbook called prego and the pace, I believe is relatively steady. We have covered in week one: alphabet, numbers, introducing ourselves. In the comprehension class we looked at cognates etc. Week two: we did places in the city, directions, giving basic information about ourselves and the family unit. In grammar we covered articles, present tense form of avere (to have) and present tense of essere (tobbe). Again all simple stuff as I have self studied this before. Comprehension class involved a 30 question test on material covered in the previous lessons. Questions like "what does this spell" "how would you respond to someone that asks.....come stai, come sta, scusi.... Etc" During week two I have introduced my own study materials to reinforce what I already know. Watching films and series in Italian, listening only to Italian music and I've also purchased graded readers from a1 - c1. I have set up daily meetings within the week for an hour with a native Italian speaker from Rome. We are going through the assimil with ease book lesson by lesson so I can work on pronunciation. We also look at different ways to say the things that are said in the book. So far so good. I only want to be focussing around 30% of my time on Italian as there are other languages I'm doing at the same time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 2 18 October 2015 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||
Still spending too much time partying then :-) (Just kidding). Good luck with the course. The only advice I can offer is when picking the location of your year in Italy (assuming you get a say) try to avoid the obvious tourist magnets, as that way you can avoid the temptation to break out into English ... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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