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ONLINE LANGUAGE COURSE
Italian for Travel

Course Description:

This is a thematic language course, focused on the vocabulary helpful for traveling in Italy. The grammar covered in this course is intended for all skill levels, starting with a review of the present and past tenses, and moving into more advanced grammar such as the conditional tense and object pronouns. This course will help you to navigate buying tickets, booking lodging, and ordering at restaurants in Italy. We will also cover a mini cultural lesson each week, including coffee culture (when can I order a cappuccino?), mealtime in Italy, making polite requests, and discussing the weather. An optional 15-minute speaking practice session is available for all who are interested after each lesson. All are welcome!

Instructor:

Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. has been teaching Italian Language and Literature since 2004. Erin earned a combined B.A. and M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1998 and then her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009. She has taught Italian as a Lector at Yale and as an Instructor at Sacred Heart University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, The Hopkins School, and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Fairfield University. Erin has published several articles, including “The Voyage of Columbus as a ‘non pensato male’: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries” © 2012, and has presented several conference research papers including “The Logic of the Clock: Dante’s Similes of the Horologe in Paradiso X and XXIV” and most recently, “Language and the Expansion of the Ecumene in the Mondo nuovo of Tommaso Stigliani.” Erin serves as an alumna interviewer for Yale College Admissions and as a member of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. In her spare time, Erin and her husband are very busy parents to their four children.

Virtual Classroom: Full access to an online educational platform with discussion forum, videos of recordings, syllabus, and exercises.

Location: LIVE INTERACTIVE ON-LINE LANGUAGE CLASSES

Complete syllabus will be provided upon registration.

• ALL LECTURES WILL BE RECORDED AND AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE IN OUR VIDEO LIBRARY FOR THE DURATION OF THE COURSE

Schedule

WEEK 1

– Tuesday, May 3

Vocabolario: I mezzi di trasporto e viaggiare in Italia – traveling and buying tickets

Grammatica: Review of present and past tense, object pronouns

Nota culturale: Italian coffee culture

WEEK 2

– Tuesday, May 10

Vocabolario: Gli alloggiamenti – lodging

Grammatica: Review of definite articles (the), Il condizionale presente – The conditional tense for polite requests

Nota culturale: Che tempo fa? The weather

WEEK 3

– Tuesday, May 17

Vocabolario: Al ristorante! Ordering food in Italian restaurants

Grammatica: Pronomi! Review of demonstrative pronouns and ci and ne

Nota culturale: Meal time in Italy

Instructor

Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. has been teaching Italian Language and Literature since 2004. Erin earned a combined B.A. and M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1998 and then her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009. She has taught Italian as a Lector at Yale and as an Instructor at Sacred Heart University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, The Hopkins School, and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Fairfield University. Erin has published several articles, including “The Voyage of Columbus as a ‘non pensato male‘: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries” © 2012, and has presented several conference research papers including “The Logic of the Clock: Dante’s Similes of the Horologe in Paradiso X and XXIV” and most recently, “Language and the Expansion of the Ecumene in the Mondo nuovo of Tommaso Stigliani.” Erin serves as an alumna interviewer for Yale College Admissions and as a member of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. In her spare time, Erin and her husband are very busy parents to their four children.