Italian for Romance Language Speakers

Catalog description

15-week hybrid course: 3 hours class meetings, 1 hour student self-study. Designed for students with an active competence in Spanish or another Romance language such as French, Portuguese and/or Romanian, who wish to learn the essential elements of the Italian grammar at an accelerated pace, as well as acquire listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Based upon the theory of 'intercomprehension' which implies the speaker's ability to understand the speech of another speaker who communicates in a dialect of the same language or a related language. Due to the linguistic similarities between Spanish, other Romance languages and Italian, students master the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing of in Italian at a faster pace.