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Learn Italian at Seattle Language Academy, Seattle:
Come and enjoy learning the wonderful Italian Language with us ! Seattle Language Academy (SLA) is a non-profit language school in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle offering classes at various levels in Italian and many other languages.

Its special summer offerings include accelerated five-week courses and immersion courses (“Series Intensives”), which compress an entire year of study into ten weeks. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, SLA arranges private language programs for individuals, small groups and organizations.

Courses:
General Italian Classes; Immersion Italian Courses.

- Italian 101 -
Students learn a basic practical knowledge of Italian in the beginner group. Grammar presented includes present tense, nouns and adjectives. At the end of the session students will know how to introduce themselves and greet others, distinguish between the formal and informal 'you,' describe people, places, and things, ask and give directions, order food, and discuss hobbies and daily routines.

- Italian 102 -
This lower-intermediate class is targeted at those who have learned Italian pronunciation well and have a basic command of present tense conjugations. Students learn how to express likes and dislikes, talk about obligation and request permission, and describe daily routines in the present and past tenses. The readings and dialogues reinforce old and incorporate new vocabulary and focus on topics such as the role of the bar in Italian society, fashion and cinema.

- Italian 103 -
In this lower-intermediate class, students learn how to extend, accept, and decline invitations, give commands, make suggestions and polite requests, and use the conditional in the present and past tenses. Vocabulary and the use of idiom are reinforced and expanded through oral and written exercises emphasizing comprehension. Students learn more about negation, and relative pronouns, and encounter the pronouns ne and ci, and special uses of the future.

- Italian 104 -
Students learn the forms and use of the remote past, followed by the present and past subjunctive, ample time being given to practice and reinforce all new forms. Also presented are the causative construction with fare and lasciare, the passive forms of the verb and the use of the impersonal si. At this level students begin to read short stories and magazine articles focusing on art and literature and politics and the work environment.

- Italian 201-204 -
Designed to expand and refine students' basic repertoire of language skills, the 200 series combines systematic reviews of first-year grammar and vocabulary with conversation practice organized around themes of general cultural interest. Discussions highlight important aspects of contemporary life in Italy as well as presentations and role-plays in class.

- Italian 300 -
Italian 300 is an advanced Conversation Class for those who would like to continue their Italian language skills.