About the Italian Language Workshop Walk in Rome
This one-and-a-half-hour Italian Language Workshop is usually led by Andrea Viviani, a Ph.d. linguistics from Roma Tre University in Rome. Andrea's dissertation deals with the historical and linguistic relationship between English (which he speaks superbly) and Italian.
This workshop can be tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of language learners. Beginners may want to come away armed with some key phrases to help them navigate the city. Or, if you have a greater facility and background in the language you may want to request a detailed lesson on some of the finer points of Italian—tenses, specialized vocabulary, or an intense conversational experience. Others may want to temper this lesson approach with a broader discussion of how the Italian language functions and how by understanding this we can learn more about Italian culture as a whole, a topic that Andrea, as a linguist, can handle with great aplomb. For example, we might talk about the difference between Italian and Roma
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This one-and-a-half-hour Italian Language Workshop is usually led by Andrea Viviani, a Ph.d. linguistics from Roma Tre University in Rome. Andrea's dissertation deals with the historical and linguistic relationship between English (which he speaks superbly) and Italian.
This workshop can be tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of language learners. Beginners may want to come away armed with some key phrases to help them navigate the city. Or, if you have a greater facility and background in the language you may want to request a detailed lesson on some of the finer points of Italian—tenses, specialized vocabulary, or an intense conversational experience. Others may want to temper this lesson approach with a broader discussion of how the Italian language functions and how by understanding this we can learn more about Italian culture as a whole, a topic that Andrea, as a linguist, can handle with great aplomb. For example, we might talk about the difference between Italian and Romanesco (the Roman dialect), which would lead into a discussion of dialects across Italy and perhaps the wonderfully surprising fact that the national language is actually the Florentine dialect.
"Later on in the day we had another Italian Language workshop with Andrea. It went just as I knew it would – Great! Andrea is an awesome teacher, he really wants you to grasp the history and structure of the language instead of just translating words. He has really inspired me to take on the challenge of learning Italian." - Kaneisha King, Context Rome/St. Hope Scholarship recipient, June 2010
