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Headquarters 

50 Station Street

Moorabbin

Phone (03) 9555 5355

 

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Italian Class -  Various Melbourne Locations

We offer small group Italian classes with a wide variety of times available.  If you do not see a suitable time, give us a call as we are adding classes every month.  Our classes are fun and social.
 

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Italian Language Adult and Children Class Schedule

Times Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
9:30 Moorabbin
2.5-5 yo
9:30-10:30
  Moorabbin
2.5-5 yo
9:30-10:30
Moorabbin
2.5-5 yo
9:30-10:30
   
10:00 Moorabbin
2.5-5yo
9:30-12:00
  Moorabbin
2.5-5yo
9:30-12:00
Moorabbin
2.4-5yo
9:30-12:00
   
11:00    
 
12:00  
12:30 Moorabbin
Private tuition available
Moorabbin
Level 1 - Italian Adult Class
1:30 Moorabbin
Private
Tuition
3:00      
4:00 Prahran
5-7 yo
4:00-5:00
Term 2
Moorabbin
5-7yo
4:00-5:00
Moorabbin
5-7yo
4:00-5:00
 
5:00 Prahran
7-10 yo
5:00-6:00
Term 2
Moorabbin
6-10yo
5:00-6:00
Moorabbin
6-10yo
5:00-6:00
 
6:30 Prahran
Private Tuition Available
Moorabbin
Level 1 - Italian Adult Class
 
 
 
7:30 Prahran
Private Tuition
Available
Moorabbin
Level 2 - Italian Adult Class
Moorabbin
Level 1
Adult Course
     

Note:  Private tuition or group sessions can be scheduled at your convenience.
Language Champs offers Corporate Group courses at your office.

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Italian Language School Program Details - Melbourne

Children Classes:

Our Italian Language School starts with children as young as two and half years old.  The teaching methods and structure is based on the developmental stages of the human brain.  Our language classes build progressively.  Our classes for adults and older students are fun and social. 

2.5-3 year olds.  A perfect time to introduce your child to language learning.   We offer one-hour classes for children at this age and focus on singing songs, playing games and creating simple arts & crafts.   This classes build more than language skills.  Your child will develop social, physical and attention skills.  Our Italian language games encourage motor and coordination skills.

3-5 year olds - 1 or 1.5 hours.  Learning takes place naturally as your child embarks on a wonderful language adventure.  We utilise colourful visuals, games, arts and crafts, skits, puppets, dramatic play and much more to stimulate and engage your child.   The program is filled with activities to develop essential early childhood skills such as imagination, self expression and self confidence explored in creative new ways.  Classes are offered in the morning or afternoon.

3-5  year olds-  2.5 hours.  A terrific way to immerse your child in the Italian language.   The following is a sample of this extended session.  Children hear native speakers teaching in their native tongue in each activity.  Offered at Moorabbin facility.
 

9:30-10:30

Teacher presents the planned themed lesson as in our 1 hour session utilising colourful visuals, games, arts & crafts, skits, puppets, dramatic play and much more.

10:30-10:50

Morning tea

10:50-11:10

Indoor or outside free play

11:10-11:30

Art and craft project

11:30-12:00

Review, story time and play favourite activities.

5-7 year olds.    At this age, children are fully verbal and eager to expand their dialogues.   We incorporate more skits and games, participatory activities and children have a lot of fun interacting with each other.   These classes are very animated.   In addition to acquiring new language skills children can be creative, enhance their social and imagination skills through storytelling, role play, movement, age-appropriate games, music and other fun, educational activities. We strive to present new knowledge and skills in ways that are developmentally appropriate and stimulating.  The children receive handout materials to complete in last 10 minutes of class time and at home when desired.  We do encourage homework, however, it is not mandatory.

7-10 year olds-   As with the 5-7 year old group, we continue to utilising age-appropriate activities, children have great fun conversing with each other, acting out skits and playing stimulating games and activities.  More reading and writing are incorporated into these sessions.  Due to the small groups, native speakers are able to personalise teaching and provide individualised attention to each student.


Children's Tuition  per 10 week term (gst incl.)

1 hr.      $180
1.5 hr    $240
2.5 hr    $360

Adult Tuition  per 10 week term - Group Classes
1 hr.      $250

Italian Tutor VCE
Italian tutoring at Language Champs is conducted as one on one classes or small group sessions.  It is ideal for the Italian language VCE student looking to excel and get an added advantage.  It is also ideal for the traveller who needs to develop their language skills prior to their trip to Italy.


Italian Language

Almost half of Australia's Italian population resides in Melbourne.  Melbourne also claims to be have the largest Italian population of any city, outside of Italy. Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but rarely as the first non-native language of pupils, in fact Italian generally is the fourth or fifth most taught second-language in the world. Throughout the world, Italian is the fifth most taught non-native language, after English, French, Spanish, and Italian. 

Italian is written using the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y are not considered part of the standard Italian, but appear in loanwords (such as jeans, whisky, taxi). X has become a commonly used letter in genuine Italian words with the prefix extra-
  • Italian uses the acute accent over the letter E (as in perché, why/because) to indicate a front mid-close vowel, and the grave accent (as in , tea) to indicate a front mid-open vowel. The grave accent is also used on letters A, I, O, and U to mark stress when it falls on final vowel of a word (for instance gioventų, youth). Typically, the penultimate syllable is stressed. If syllables other than the last one are stressed, the accent is not mandatory, unlike in Spanish, and, in virtually all cases, it is omitted. In some cases, when the word is ambiguous (as principi), the accent mark is sometimes used in order to disambiguate its meaning (in this case, prėncipi, princes, or princėpi, principles). This is however not compulsory. Rare words with three or more syllables can confuse Italians themselves, and the pronunciation of Istanbul is a common example of a word in which placement of stress is not clearly established. Turkish, like French, tends to put the accent on ultimate syllable, but Italian doesn't. So we can hear "Istānbul" or "Ėstanbul". The correct one, of course, is the Turkish one: "Istanbųl". Another instance is the American State of Florida: the correct way to pronounce it in Italian is like in Spanish, "Florėda", but since there is an Italian word meaning the same ("flourishing"), "flōrida", and because of the influence of English, most Italians pronounce it that way.
  • The letter H at the beginning of a word is used to distinguish ho, hai, ha, hanno (present indicative of avere, 'to have') from o ('or'), ai ('to the'), a ('to'), anno ('year'). In the spoken language this letter is always silent for the cases given above. H is also used in combinations with other letters (see below), but no phoneme[h] exists in Italian. In foreign words entered in common use, like "house" or "hovercraft", the H is commonly silent, so they are pronounced as /oˈtɛl/ and /ˈɔverkraft/
  • The letter Z represents /ʣ/, for example: Zanzara /dzan'dzaɾa/ (mosquito), or /ʦ/, for example: Nazione /naˈttsjone/ (nation), depending on context, though there are few minimal pairs. The same goes for S, which can represent /s/ or /z/. However, these two phonemes are in complementary distribution everywhere except between two vowels in the same word, and even in such environment there are extremely few minimal pairs, so that this distinction is being lost in many varieties.
  • In general, all letters or digraphs represent phonemes rather clearly, and in standard varieties of Italian, there is little allophonic variation. The most notable exceptions are assimilation of /n/ in point of articulation before consonants, assimilatory voicing of /s/ to following voiced consonants, and vowel length (vowels are long in stressed open syllables, and short elsewhere) — compare with the enormous number of allophones  of the English phoneme /t/. Spelling is clearly phonemic and difficult to mistake given a clear pronunciation. Exceptions are generally only found in foreign borrowings. There are fewer cases of dyslexia  than among speakers of languages such as English, and the concept of a spelling bee is strange to Italians.

Source:  Wikipedia reviewed 11/3/2008.  There is a lot more information at Wikipedia.

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