Welcome To Cinzia's Italian Made Easy
Italian Lessons, groups and private.
My name is Cynthia Waldrop. I have been teaching Italian in Denver since 1987. I wanted to create an internet site so that all my students (or whoever happens upon the site) may benefit by the information that I've gathered and assembled. You will find links for dictionaries, English-Italian vocabulary, machine translation, Italian grammar and exercises, verb conjugators and not only. There are also links that will take you to purchasing air and train tickets, finding hotels, descriptions of many Italian cities, and much more.
Mi chiamo Cinzia Sanniti. Da 1987 insegno l'italiano a Denver. Volevo creare un sito internet cosi' tutti i miei studenti (o a chi capita) possono usufruire delle informazioni che ho raccolto e messo qui. Potete trovare i link per dizionari, vocabolari, traduzioni automatiche, grammatica italiana ed esercizi scritti, coniugatori di verbi e non solo. Ci sono anche i link che vi portano all'acquisto dei biglietti aerei o ferroviari, hotel finders, descrizioni di tante citta' in Italia, e tanto ancora.
Current class schedule
Class Times (updated 7/11/09 - aggiornato 11.7.09)
Ecco il programma per i mesi di luglio/agosto 2009:
Italiano I (Beginners) Tuesdays
Italiano I-b Wed 7:30 il 1 – 15 luglio (7 studenti)
Italiano II-b Mon 7:30 il 15 giugno – 13 luglio (8 studenti)
Italiano III Thurs 7:15 il 9 luglio – 6 agosto (4 studenti)
Italian IVb Wed 6-7:30 il 8 luglio – 5 agosto (8 studenti)
2009 Beginners Classes - each class meets for 5 consecutive weeks:
Aug 11 – Sept 8 Five Tues.,
Sept 15 – Oct 13 Five Tues.,
The Beginners' class is the only class that doesn't meet at my home. Email me for direzioni.
Most frequent question posed by those traveling to Italy:
Q: What about tipping? Should I tip the waiter? I heard service is included with the check.
A:
Where do I fit in?
Please read the following and let me know which class you'd like to try first! If it seems troppo facile or troppo difficile puoi sempre cambiare gruppo. Ecco la lista delle lezioni e piu' o meno cosa hanno studiato:
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Italiano I (Beginners) This is what we cover:
Week 1: Pronunciation. Useful questions and answers. Numbers. I would like (=Vorrei).
Week 2: Review of 1st week. Using the euro. New vocabulary. Singular and plurals.
Week 3: The restaurant: food items and ordering from a menu.
Week 4: Learning the article: a + vocabulary word + adjective. Describing people and pictures.
Week 5: Telling time, days of the week, months of the year. Whats the weather like? Recognizing adverbs and learning how to conjugate verbs.
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Italiano I-b (Libro I) A good review of all the above, plus more practice with verb conjugations, the adverbs [abbastanza, meglio, presto, spesso, ecc...]. We will do the idioms using "to have" [i.e., avere fame, sete, ecc...], many useful expressions, and an introduction to the irregular verbs [andare, venire, fare, dare, dire...].
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Italiano I-c (Libro I) know all of the above, getting more comfortable with the language, plus more vocabolario, espressioni, and practice with verbs.
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Italian II (Libro II-p.2) all of the above, plus learning more challenging vocabulary, additional grammar, sentence structure being practiced again and again to generate confidence in their ability to understand and converse. Some "passato prossimo" with avere. Are familiar with he difference between the two Italian verbs used to translate <to know> and the difference between <tempo> and <
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Italian II-b (Libro II) all of the above, plus translating, conversing on the phone, the seven ways to say "the", clothes items and shopping. Some role-play. The "passato prossimo" with essere is now introduced and the verb "dovere" [devo, devi, deve...] has been added.
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Italiano III (Libro III-p.3) all of the above plus they have had quite a few more months of practice, which has them more comfortable using the past tense (passato prossimo) of verbs that use avere or essere as the helping verb: ho mangiato, ho comprato, sono andato, sono stata, ecc... They have been using the possessive and the articulated prepositions [nella, sulla, al, dagli, ecc.], the present and past gerunds [sto mangiando, stavi dicendo...] and are slowly starting to acquire a taste for the imperfetto [mangiavo, lavoravo, ecc..]. They have also been introduced to the reflexive verbs.
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Italian III-b (Libro III-p.13): almost similar to the above, plus the "da or duration form", and some practice with the ordinal numbers.
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Italian IV-b (Libro IV-p.23): all of the above, plus reciprocal verbs, i numeri ordinali, body parts, and all the direct & indirect object pronouns. Have started to comfortably use the futuro, the conditional, the imperativo, and the presentand past subjunctive. They love speaking in italiano without any prompting on my part!
MeetUp - Italian conversation groups
Would you like to practice your Italian? Would you like to meet others who are interested in the Italian language? Are you planning to travel to Italy? Are you planning to travel to Denver from Italy? Meet with others who are also interested in the Italian language and culture. The Denver Italian Meetup promotes the language and culture of Italy.
We welcome all levels of language proficiency and interest in the Italian culture. Anyone can sign up to use the Meetup site for participating in our online community, to view the calendar details and to RSVP for events. There are currently two groups meeting: Sundays at 3:30 pm for beginners/intermediate and Mondays at 7:30 pm for advanced speakers. Join us to meet people with common interests and practice your Italian language skills. Benvenuti!
