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!
garagErasmus Foundation and Erasmus+ INDIRE are launching a second edition of THE ACCELERATOR in 2022, 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!).
Sessions are aimed at people counting with a basic-intermediate level of Italian (equivalent to B1, more or less!) and will be held 100% in Italian. They will always follow the same structure, with a first strictly pedagogical part and a second more informal one on the customs and traditions of Italy. The wonderful team of language teachers of the Dante Alighieri Language Institute of Recanati will be in charge of them: below there is a preview of the programme for this edition.
Save the dates & register by Tuesday 5 March!
Sessions will start on 7 April and will be carried out on Tuesdays & Thursdays, until 5 May 2022: on Tuesday 12/03, Thursday 14/03, Tuesday 19/04, Thursday 21/04, Tuesday 26/04, Thursday 28/04, Tuesday 03/04 & Thursday 05/05.
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 compariso
- 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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