Language courses are held each term over nine weeks.
The 2013 dates are:

Term 1  Mon 4^th Feb - Fri 5^th April
Term 2  Mon 29^th Apr - Fri 28^th June
Term 3  Mon 22^nd July - Fri 21^st Sept
Term 4  Mon 7^th Oct - Fri 6^th Dec

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HSC Intensive Courses, 9 hours over three days

Monday, 15^th - Wednesday, 17^th April 2013
Monday, 1^st - Wednesday, 3^rd July 2013
Monday, 23^rd - Wednesday, 25^th September 2013

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Course fee is $270 (incl. GST).

The following discounts are available:
  • 'Early bird special': a discount of 5% applies for payments received 
     at least two weeks before the start of the course
  • A 5% discount applies to enrolments of 2 terms
  • A 10% discount applies to enrolments of 3 terms or more

Annual membership is just $10 for language students and $30 for full 
Dante Alighieri members.

Membership entitles you to:
  • 10% discount at Abbey's bookshop (York Street, Sydney CBD)
  • Free access to the comprehensive Dante library of Italian literature and DVDs
  • Special invitations to our cultural events

The Society will award a scholarship in Italy to at least 2 students enrolled in 
its courses (conditions apply).
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Comprehensive Italian language course
Whatever their current level of accomplishment, students of Italian will find the appropriate course in our extensive programme to further improve their language skills. Classes are arranged on a convenient daytime or evening schedule. Text book is required from Beginners to Advanced levels.

Free weekly conversation hour is offered to Dante's students on Wednesdays from 5pm to 6pm.

Certificates of attendance will be issued upon request and suitability.

Beginners 1
• Grammar: use of adjectives, articles, basic verbs, simple prepositions, numbers.
• Communication: greeting people, introducing yourself, asking the meaning and translation of a word, ordering in a restaurant, asking and giving personal details.
Beginners 2
• Grammar: regular verbs, the verbs piacere, adverbs of frequency, modal verbs, ordinal numbers.
• Communication: talking about leisure time, expressing likes and preferences, describe a place, giving directions.
Beginners 3
• Grammar: passato prossimo, irregular past participle, past time expression, reflexive verbs, possessive adjectives, direct object pronouns.
• Communication: planning a trip, asking information in a travel agency, describing a typical day, describing holidays and traditions, describing your family, describing food and eating habits.
Intermediate 1
• Grammar: indirect object pronoun, use of indirect pronoun with the direct pronoun, present conditional, imperfetto, difference between imperfetto and passato prossimo, comparatives, present progressive, direct indirect and reflexive pronoun.
• Communication: shopping for clothes, making polite requests, expressing taste and preferences, describing past situations, talking about habitual activity in the past, giving a physical describing of someone, organizing leisure activities, expressing dislike and annoyances.
Intermediate 2
• Grammar: future tense, ipotetic period, imperative formal and informal.
• Communication: talk about future projects, give suggestions, hypothesize events.
Intermediate 3
• Grammar: combined pronouns, comparative and superlative irregular, past perfect, past conditional.
• Communication: give instructions and advice, talk about past experiences, describe places, express regrets.
Upper intermediate
• Grammar: present and past subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive and past perfect, passive.
• Communication: express personal opinions, talk about events in the past, expressing goals and objectives.
Advanced 1
• Grammar: hypothetical period, relative pronouns, adverbs, subjunctive with the conditional, si impersonal, gerund.
• Communication: express wishes, discuss and complain, justify facts and events, make requests in a courteous manner, talk about a trip, describe places.
Advanced 2 to Advanced 9
These levels will revise and deepen the grammar and topics studied in the previous levels. The vocabulary is enriched, the pronunciation is improved, and the grammar is completed. The level of speaking, writing and listening skills are refined. The texts used are focused more on current events (politics, culture, sport) than on grammar exercises.
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Conversation
This class, conducted in Italian, sharpens your conversational and debating ability by discussing contemporary issues and cultural talking points from the Italian media in a friendly and engaging atmosphere.
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Italian on Saturdays
We offer two Saturday courses:
Beginners 1
an intensive course for beginners aimed at developing linguistic foundations;
Beginners 2
a follow on from the Beginner 1 course, it expands previously acquired language skills and reinforces basic languistic structures
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HSC Intensive
We offer everything students need to pass their HSC with flying colours. Our small, student friendly classes ensure a head start you're looking for to prepare for your Italian exam. Dante's native Italian teachers specially tailor your writing and oral practice to your individual needs. For more information, call us on (02) 9283 0261.

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