Italian Conversation: Beginners

Have you completed a Holiday Italian or Beginners’ Italian class? Or maybe you have a basic knowledge of Italian, or are in need of brushing it up a bit?

If the answer is yes, then come along to this 6-week course where every week you'll have fun with some icebreakers and warmers, then focus on an activity to revise grammar and vocab, and finally engage in an easy, guided activity based on conversation – gossiping about neighbours, complaining about the weather, selling an Italian holiday, and even becoming detectives!

Through pairs, group and classwork you will improve your spoken Italian in a very friendly and creative atmosphere.

The conversation activities are taken from a book written by the tutor and recently published by one of Italy’s main publishing houses.

No class 16th May.

About the Tutor

Federica Ferrieri was born in Venice. She is a language teacher, a lexicographer, an editor and a translator.

She’s also the Honorary Consul of Italy in Northern Ireland, a member of the Consular Association (CANI), and she organises many events in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh to promote the Italian language and culture in and around Belfast.

Before and during her PhD studies in Modern Greek, she lived in Amsterdam, Crete and Athens, and spent time in London.

She's lived in Belfast for more than seven years, where she currently teaches Italian, Latin and Greek at Queen's University, the Crescent Arts Centre and in her own office in the University area.

Languages (ancient and modern) are her passion, and the theory and practice of teaching them in a creative way is something she enormously enjoys.