ITAL 1500 Travel Italian
This course will help students find their way around Italy, il Bel Paese, focusing on real travel situations and everyday language expressions. Students will learn basic grammar, essential words and phrases to facilitate a clear communication while traveling, meeting people, sightseeing, shopping, and asking for directions. In addition, students will get helpful information on the culture and history of Italy, each week highlighting different cities, regions, and other interesting places. The practice of grammar and vocabulary will be reinforced with exercises of repetition, substitution, reading and comprehension, questions and answers, dialogues, dictations, songs, poems, videos, individual and group activities. This course is recommended for beginner Italian speakers.