Santa Clara Adult Education – French Language

Enjoy learning French in the comfort of your home!

This is an online class and meetings will be held via Zoom. Students will receive a Zoom invitation by email prior to the first class meeting. Student will need to download and install the Zoom app on a computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other device with an internet connection and microphone/webcam.

Bonjour!

Students with some French instruction will learn the fundamentals of French pronunciation and will develop basic everyday conversational skills with focus on phonetics, grammar, listening comprehension, reading and writing exercises. The students will also become familiar with French culture and customs.

Purchase books online: Textbook Dis-moi! Chapters 6   

ISBN - 0673216276

Santa Clara Adult Education – French Language

Enjoy learning French in the comfort of your home!

This is an online class and meetings will be held via Zoom. Students will receive a Zoom invitation by email prior to the first class meeting. Student will need to download and install the Zoom app on a computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other device with an internet connection and microphone/webcam.

Bonjour! Students with no or little French instruction will learn the fundamentals of French pronunciation and will develop basic everyday conversational skills with focus on phonetics, grammar, listening comprehension, reading and writing exercises. The students will also become familiar with French culture and customs.

Purchase books online:           Textbook Dis-moi! (Chapter 11)        ISBN - 0673216276

Italian Beginner I (Part A) - Online

•  Ciao! Have fun learning this beautiful Italian language and its culture! 
•  Express yourself through salutations, pronunciation, gender & number of nouns, verbs “to be” and “to have”, definite & indefinite articles, and speak in the Presente tense with verbs ending in -are. 
•  The textbook Prego! 5th ed., ISBN: 0-07-365513-9 can be purchased as used online (www.dealoz.com). We’ll cover from Capitolo Preliminare to Capitolo 3.

Please contact the instructor Antonella Callegari, [email protected] with inquiries on grammar level needed to enroll.

Italian Beginner II (Part A) - Online

• Bentornati! (Welcome back!) Keep speaking the Italian language!

• Communicate in the Presente tense with verbs ending in -ere/-ire, direct & indirect object pronouns, prepositions with articles, the Passato Prossimo verb, reflexive verbs, and adverbs. 

The textbook Prego! 5th ed., ISBN: 0-07-365513-9 can be purchased as used online (www.dealoz.com). We’ll cover from Capitolo 4 to Capitolo 7.

Please contact the instructor Antonella Callegari, [email protected] with inquiries on grammar level needed to enroll.

Italian for Travelers - Online

• Buon Viaggio! Travel through the beautiful cities of Italy!

• Complement and implement skills learned in beginner classes with emphasis on basic grammar review and daily conversation topics. 

• Learn lots of vocabulary and phrases useful to your trip.

• Students new to the Italian language are also welcome. 

• Two books Italian Conversation by Marcel Danesi, ISBN: 978-0-07-177089-7 and Italian Vocabulary 2nd ed. by McGraw Hill, ISBN: 9780071760966 will be used and can be purchased as used online (www.dealoz.com). 

Italian Intermediate Conversation - Online

• Ripassiamo Mentre Leggiamo. This class is for students who have taken and completed  Italian Intermediate II or equivalent grammar levels (no Subjunctive Mode).

• Enjoy conversing after reading brief essays or novels’ extracts by answering questions based on the readings, and discussing personal point of views. Grammar will be reviewed as needed in class and with short homework exercises. 

• Material will be sent via email prior to class.

Italian Intermediate I (Part A) - Online

• Continuiamo! (Let’s Continue!) Deepen and expand your knowledge of Italian!

• Be ready to immerse yourself in the Imperfetto and Trapassato verbs, stressed pronouns, degrees of comparison, the Futuro verb, pronouns such as ‘ne’ and ‘ci’ and the impersonal ‘si’, the double pronouns, and the Imperativo verb for tu, noi, voi.

• The textbook Prego! 5th ed., ISBN: 0-07-365513-9 can be purchased as used online (www.dealoz.com). We’ll cover from Capitolo 8 to Capitolo 11

Please contact the instructor Antonella Callegari, [email protected] with inquiries on grammar level needed to enroll.

Italian Intermediate II (Part A) - Online

• Forza! Enjoy speaking only Italian by now as if you were already in Italy!

• Focus on indefinite adjectives and pronouns, the Imperativo verb for Lei & Loro, Condizionale e Passato Remoto verbs, possessive pronouns, relative pronouns, construction with infinitive tenses, and particular verbs such as ‘volerci’ & ‘metterci’. 

• The textbook Prego! 5th ed., ISBN: 0-07-365513-9 can be purchased as used online (www.dealoz.com). We’ll cover from Capitolo 12 to Capitolo 15.

Please contact the instructor Antonella Callegari, [email protected] with inquiries on grammar level needed to enroll.

Spanish 1A - Online

Learn Spanish from the comfort of your home using Google Classroom.  

Spanish 1  is an introductory class where you will learn how to introduce yourself, talk about what you like and don't like to do in your free time, describe yourself and others physically and personality and conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in present tense.   

We will meet virtually in small groups once a week for two hours on Tuesdays starting June 23rd. Our class will start at 6:30 and end at 8:30. We will have six sessions that will end July 28. 

Hasta pronto!!!!.

Spanish 1B - Online

Continue learning Spanish from the comfort of your home using Google Classroom. 

Spanish 1B is the next level to beginners where you will learn more adjectives and comparisons of equality, formation of direct commands, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, stem changing verbs of ar y er.

We will do more advanced readings and we will also practice your speaking skills.