Ita 3040 Online Business Italian
This 8-week fully ONLINE course will provide students with a background in business Italian at the intermediate level. Students will: Gain a foundation in the vocabulary used in the business world, Write business correspondence in Italian, Learn through interactive lessons with local Italian entrepreneurs, Better understand the culture of...
Benvenuti in Italia, an Intensive Conversation in Italian
Insieme a Chicago will offer the unique opportunity to practice Italian for all of those who are interested in improving their conversational skills. On April 25, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Italian language school will feature an Italian course designed to practice everyday talks. Participants will have the opportunity to speak in Italian...
Little Italy Non-Profits Unite to Provide Excellence in Education and Community Service
by Paul Sciria The Alta House and Cleveland Montessori Board leadership have announced a partnership between the two organizations to create the Cleveland Montessori at Alta House, a joint collaboration that will significantly and positively impact the Little Italy community for generations to come. The combined efforts will inclu...
Explore Italian Studies at Notre Dame, Indiana
The University has further extended its engagement with Italy with an interdisciplinary program in Italian Studies. The Italian Studies at Notre Dame program will bring together for the first time nearly 30 faculty members and more than 400 students from art and architecture to classics, language, literature, and history. Italian language, literat...
Italian exchange student playing 3 sports for Belding
When Thaddeous Holbrook first saw Belding's new exchange student trying out for football, he wasn't impressed. "He looked skinnier than the rest of us," the Belding senior said of Simone D'Errico, of Turin, Italy, who is spending a year at Belding High School. "I thought maybe he might get hurt." But when the soft-spoken Italian put p...
AP® Italian Reading to Take Place in Ohio June 12-18, 2014
The AP® Italian Reading will take place June 12-18, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third year after the AP® Italian has been reinstated as a course and, after the excellent results of the two previous years, we are once more all looking forward to this year's Reading with great anticipation. The Chief Reader, the Q...
From student to principal in Clinton Township
by Thomas Franz When Marina Licari began her educational journey as a kindergarten student 32 years ago, she could hardly speak English. The daughter of Italian immigrants, Licari grew up speaking her parents' native language. Years of bilingual classes and hard work in language arts paid off for Licari, whose journey through Chippewa...
Italian language experiences unexpected Renaissance at South Middle School
by Sally Ho Spanish still may be the runaway favorite for students learning a foreign language in Illinois, but one northwest suburban teacher has nearly quadrupled enrollment for a less ubiquitous language –Italian. Lisa Sasso, an Italian teacher at South Middle School at 400 S. Highland Ave., started the foreign language program...
Why we need to contribute to Italian American Studies at Loyola
by Tom Secco We need to contribute,we need to contribute now. We need to contribute not only so our stories will not be forgotten, not only so we have some semblance of control about our stories but even so our stories already told in film and in books will not be misunderstood or forgotten. We need to contribute to make sure that pe...
Nuovi corsi di Italiano a Chicago: domani porte aperte in istituto
Cominceranno lunedì prossimo, 15 aprile, i corsi di italiano offerti da "ItalCultura", la Scuola ufficiale di italiano a Chicago. Per presentare la propria offerta formativa "ItalCultura" ha organizzato per domani la giornata delle porte aperte, dalle 17.30 alle 20 nella sede dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Per l'intero pomeriggio sarà possibil...
Insegnare Italiano all'Università di Chicago: nuovo bando con scadenza 25 febbraio 2016
Prevista una scadenza per la data del 25 febbraio 2016, la selezione per una borsa di studio Fulbright - Distinguished Chair - nell'ambito degli Italian Studies presso l'University of Chicago, Illinois per l'a.a. 2016/2017. Il vincitore avrà la possibilità di ottenere un incarico di insegnamento nel settore degli studi italiani nell'ambito di Itali...
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visits Chicago
By Michelle Gallardo The Chicago area hosted a special guest Wednesday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi toured parts of the city and the suburbs. His first official visit to Chicago, it was the first stop in a four-day tour of the United States focused on trade issues between the U.S. and Italy. First, he took part in a ribbon c...