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Italian Beginners, Andiamo!
Italian Beginners classes have been running online for over a year and have been very successful: small groups, a conversational approach in a fun and relax environment are the keys for this success. Finally you can learn and enjoy our classes from everywhere in the world from the comfort of your home! Full course description: […]
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Interested in Learning Italian in Cork? Starting soon in the College of Commerce
Good reasons to visit Italy… good reason to learn Italian If someone asked me why they should visit Italy… I would say that there are so many good reasons. I would even recommend that they spend some time over there and speak Italian in order to have a better understanding of Italian culture, traditions and […]
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Arrivano i Corsi di Fluenza!
Arrivano i Corsi di Fluenza!! Don’t let your Italian get rusty this summer, but get more fluent while having fun! Would you like to get ready for your Italian hols, be able to place your order at the restaurant, bargain at the market and asking for information with confidence? Non c’è problema! Is your Italian […]
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How to STORE OUR VOCAB… and How to LEARN IT (part 2)
HOW TO STORE OUR VOCAB… AND HOW TO LEARN IT! We attend our Italian class and we learn (or we think we have learnt) a great deal of new vocab and use of prepositions… the week after, when we want to say that word or we want to say that sentence again… but which is […]
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How to Turbocharge Our Language Learning (part 1)
Do you want to learn Italian effectively and enjoy it? Bene, I’ve been thinking about something that may help my students and I decided to put together a series of tips. First of all, I should tell you I’ve learned French (I studied and worked in Paris for a year) and English (in addition to […]
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Some Learning Aids for Our Natale!
Some Learning Aids for Our Natale! We’ve just finished our Beginners class at the College of Commerce and we’re singing Italian Christmas songs this time of year… Grazie mille a tutti for your enthusiasm for learning Italian, for all the fun and laughs we have had. We know that learning a language is a wonderful […]
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Grammar and Vocab are very important but…
My thesis advisor used to say to me that if you really want to learn something well you must teach it. He was more than right. As I graduated in Educational Science I taught a few subjects and I became rather knowledgeable about them. Since I have started to teach Italian I have perfected my […]
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News News News… By popular demand… we’ll have an Extra Beginners Course at the College of Commerce!
News News News… By popular demand… we’ll have an Extra Beginners Course at the College of Commerce! As I was saying in our previous post, the interest in Italian language and culture is getting more and more popular among the people in Cork… Therefore, those who have been left on the waiting list will be […]
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Why is Italian so popular in Cork?
It appears that in the last year, Italian became more and more popular among the people of Cork and the number of beginners has increased exponentially (in the school where I teach). So much so that the Beginners course we started at the end of January at the College of Commerce was fully booked […]
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Raising a bilingual child, our third year.
My husband is an English speaker, I am Italian and, as many of you already know, we live in Cork, Ireland. Our son Kevin was born on 17 December 2010. We decided to raise him bilingual and we still stick to this decision. It is not the easy road and it is a strong commitment for both […]
