The Accelerator
Improve your Italian and widen your knowledge of Italian culture !
Did you know that the worldwide popular “Spaghetti alla bolognese” are not actually part of the traditional Bolognese or even Italian cuisine? Why we should never put pinaeapple on pizza? What does the pinecone gesture exactly mean? And why do Italians walking under stairs or why do they feel unlucky if they see a black cat?
Boost your level of Italian, completely for free!
La Fondation garagErasmus et Erasmus+ INDIRE are launching a third edition of THE ACCELERATOR in 2023, aiming at giving an opportunity to exchange students who are willing to improve their basic-intermediate level of Italian and, over all, widen their knowledge about Italy (culture, habits, customs… and even cuisine!).
Les sessions s'adressent à des personnes ayant un niveau d'italien débutant-intermédiaire (équivalent à B1, plus ou moins !) et se dérouleront à 100% en italien. Elles suivront toujours la même structure, avec une première partie strictement pédagogique et une seconde plus informelle sur les coutumes et traditions de l'Italie. La merveilleuse équipe de professeurs de langues de l' Institut de langue Dante Alighieri de Recanati sera en charge de celui-ci : vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu du programme de la nouvelle édition.
The 2023 edition of Accelerator has been posponed to Autumn 2023
The + of Erasmus
This initiative is part of THE + OF ERASMUS project: Erasmus+ INDIRE and garagErasmus Foundation are merging their forces for the next Generation of Europeans to improve their Erasmus+ experience by unequivocally underlining its value in the face of today’s demanding job market.
See what else the project offers
This activity has been conceived for Erasmus+ exchange students willing to improve their level of Italian and, therefore, their participation in the project will be prioritary.
THE PROGRAMME WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AUTUMN 2023
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Programme of the 2022 Accelerator edition
Thursday 07 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Prepositions of place & time
- Italian Comics
17.10 – 19:00
- Easter Traditions: lexic and culture
- Easter Traditions: comparison among Italian regions and cuisine
Tuesday 12 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Idioms
- Italian Cuisine: typical recipes
17.10 -19:00
- The past perfect: formation, usage & verbs with double auxiliary
- A designer who revolutionised fashion: Elsa Schiaparelli
Thursday 14 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Combined pronouns. Review of simple pronouns, combined pronouns & common pronominal verbs.
- Bologna & pasta
17.10 – 19:00
- Giotto: the Medieval painter who completely changed Italian art
Tuesday 19 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Starting an oral communication: greeting people
- A couple of curious facts about Venice
17.10 -19:00
- The basis of the Italian language: the articles, from the simplest usages to particularities
Thursday 21 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Another time in the past: the imperfect. The near past and the imperfect and the connectives that link them
- A ‘ritual’ of the Italians: the aperitif
17.10 – 19:00
- Indefinite pronouns and adjectives
- Italian fashion and design
Tuesday 26 April
15.00 – 16:50
- Impersonal and reflexive forms comparison
- Italian Migrations
17.10 -19:00
- Non-spoken Italian: gestures
- Italy through the movies: cinema tips
Thursday 28 April
15.00 – 16:50
- The subjunctive mode: an introduction
- Pisa & Siena
17.10 – 19:00
- Italy through cinema : film recommendations
- Non-spoken Italian: gestures
Tuesday 03 May
15.00 – 16:50
- The Direct Imperative
- Italian light music: karaoke
17.10 – 19:00
- Italian traditional festivities, particularly 25 April
- Italian cuisine: recipes, flavours and traditions
Thursday 05 May
15.00 – 16:50
- Phonetics: the pronunciation of Italian markings and the double letters
- Phonetics
17.10 – 19:00
- Relative pronouns
- Italian Wines: land, lexic and wine culture in Italy
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