Italian Language and Culture Level 1

旨在为初学者提供实用的语言能力. Upon completion of this course, 学生应该能用现在时态讨论日常活动. 学生也可以期望能够读和写基本的文本，如简单的信件. Topics include pronunciation, expressions of date and quantity, indefinite and definite articles, and direct object pronouns. (Prego!第八版，预备单元第四章)

 

Italian Language and Culture Level 2

建立在第1级提供的基础上, 通过结构化的对话和其他实践活动，提高学生的听力和会话能力. 当学生学习过去完成时和不完成时时，他们开始更准确地交流. 更复杂的阅读选择也为会话和书面活动提供了基础. 主题包括日期和数量的表达式, indefinite and definite articles, and direct object nouns and pronouns. Other topics include, past tense, interrogatives, articulated prepositions, indirect object nouns and pronouns, articulation of like a dislike, reflexive verbs, adverbs and numbers above 100. (Prego!, eight edition, Chapters 5-8)

 

Italian Language and Culture Level 3

Upon completion of this level, 学生应该能够讨论包括健康在内的话题, travel, holidays and business using the present, past and future tenses. 这一阶段继续强调通过使用包括阅读选择在内的教学资源来提高口语理解和创造性表达, video and song. Topics introduced include imperfect tense, expressions of time and duration, disjunctive pronouns, comparatives and superlatives, simple future tense, and double object pronouns. (Prego!, eight edition, Chapters 9-12)

 

Italian Language and Culture Level 4

完成这门课程后，学生可以期望以更大的信心和准确性进行对话. 更复杂的阅读选择为词汇发展和创造性地使用语言提供了真正的机会. 以已经掌握的技能为基础, students learn indefinite adjectives, negatives, imperative form, the conditional tense, possessive and relative pronouns, and the remote past tense. (Prego!, eight edition, Chapters 13-16)

 

Italian Language and Culture Level 5

学生在动词时态的运用上精益求精，并不断扩大词汇量. Upon completion of this level, 学生应该能够理解并轻松参与广泛话题的对话. 随着学生对条件结构和被动结构的熟练运用，阅读和写作能力也得到了提高. 在这一层次中引入的主题包括虚拟语气的时态. (Prego!, eight edition, Chapters 17-18)

 

Conversational Italian

本课程专为已经熟练掌握1-5级所教授的技能，并希望提高会话能力的学生设计. Conducted entirely in Italian, 本课程为学生提供了一个显著提高听说能力的机会. Magazines, video and audio tapes, 其他旨在提供词汇和技能发展实践机会的资源也会根据学生的兴趣进行选择. 语法主题根据需要进行处理.

 

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因为用外语交流需要理解文化背景, 我们的目标是通过精心挑选的教材来教授您活生生的语言, 报刊文章及其他有关资料, 而不是让你重复和记忆旅游用语.

Over the past thirty years, 我们复习了许多大学级别的意大利语教科书，并选择了 Prego!, 8版(麦格劳-希尔)是最好的满足我们的学生在初级和中级水平的目标. 教师为更高层次的课文和补充材料提供建议. 书可以在波士顿大学巴诺书店买到, 660 Beacon Street, Boston or on-line on Amazon.com.

 

Tuition

意大利所有层次的课程学费为359美元. 报名费为35美元，首次注册的学生不退还.

In addition to our core program, 我们提供浸入式课程，在6周(夏季4周)内涵盖1至5级核心课程。. 浸入式课程的学费为1,795美元.

Immersion Courses	Hours
3 or more students	90
2 students	72
1 student	40

Schedule

 

Class Schedules
Program	Day(s)	Time
Level 1	Mondays and Wednesdays	12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Level 1	Mondays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Level 1	Saturdays	1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Level 2	Tuesdays and Thursdays	12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Level 2	Mondays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Level 2	Thursdays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Level 2	Saturdays	1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Level 3	Tuesdays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Level 3	Saturdays	9:30 am – 12:30pm
Level 4	Wednesdays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Level 5	Tuesdays	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Conversation	Mondays	12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

 

Immersion Schedules
Program	Day(s)	Time
Levels 1-5	M/Tu/W/Th/F	9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Levels 1-5	M/Tu/W/Th/F	2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Summer Class Schedules
Program	Day(s)	Time
Level 1	Mondays and Wednesdays	9:30 am – 11:45 am
Level 1	Mondays and Wednesdays	6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Level 1	Saturdays	12:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Level 2	Tuesdays and Thursdays	12:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Level 2	Tuesdays and Thursdays	6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Level 2	Saturdays	9:00 am – 1:30 pm
Level 3	Tuesdays and Thursdays	6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Level 3	Saturdays	12:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Level 4	Mondays and Wednesdays	6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Level 5	Tuesdays and Thursdays	6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Conversation	Fridays	1:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Immersion Schedules
Program	Day(s)	Time
Levels 1-5	M/Tu/W/Th/F	9:00 am – 1:30 pm