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Italian Language School
Italian Tutor (including VCE)
Italian Language
Italian language class schedule
Tuition
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 Class - Various Melbourne
Locations
We have 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 week.
Our classes are fun and social.
Italian language class schedule
| Times |
Mo |
Tu |
We |
Th |
Fr |
Sa |
| 9:30 |
Moorabbin
2.5-5 yo
9:30-10:30 |
Surrey Hills
2-3 yo
9:30-10:30
3-5 yo
10:30-11:30 |
Moorabbin
2.5-5 yo
9:30-10:30 |
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| 10:00 |
Moorabbin
2.5-5yo
9:30-12:00 |
Moorabbin
2.5-5yo 10.45 - 11.4511:00
Moorabbin
Private Tuition Available
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Moorabbin
3.5-5yo
9:30-11:30 |
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| 11:00 |
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| 12:00 |
11:30-12:30 Parent &
Child Italian Conversation |
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| 12:30 |
Moorabbin
Private tuition available |
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Moorabbin
Level 1
- Italian Adult Class |
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| 1:30 |
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| 3:00 |
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| 4:00 |
Prahran
5-7 yo
4:00-5:00 |
Moorabbin
5-7yo
4:00-5:00 |
Moorabbin
5-7yo
4:00-5:00 |
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| 5:00 |
Prahran
7-10 yo
5:00-6:00 |
Moorabbin
6-10yo
5:00-6:00 |
Moorabbin
6-10yo
5:00-6:00 |
Moorabbin
VCE class |
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| 6:30 |
Prahran
Private Tuition Available |
Moorabbin
Level 2 - Italian
Adult Class |
Moorabbin
6:00
10-16 Yo |
Moorabbin
Private Tuition
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| 7:30 |
Prahran
Private Tuition
Available |
Moorabbin
Level 1 - Italian
Adult Class |
Moorabbin
Private Tuition |
Moorabbin
Private Tuition |
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Note: Private tuition or small group sessions can be
scheduled at your convenience.
Click here for an Italian Translator
or Italian Translation Services
Italian Language School for Children -
Melbourne
Language Champs Italian Language School starts with children
as young as two years old. The pedagogy (teaching methods
and structure) are based on the developmental stages of the
human brain. Our Italian language classes build
progressively. Our classes for adults and students provide
a fun environment to learn the Italian language.
2-3 year olds. A perfect time to introduce your child to
language learning. Children and parents or caregivers have great
fun learning together singing songs, playing games and creating simple arts
& crafts. This class builds more than language
skills. Your child will develop social, physical and
attention skills and encourages motor and coordination skills
while playing Italian language activities.
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 & 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.
3-5 year olds- 2.5 hours. A terrific way
to immerse your child in Italian language. Classes are offered in the
morning or afternoon. The following is a sample of this extended
session. Children hear native
speakers teaching in their native tongue in each activity.
Offered only 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 |
| 10:50-11:20 |
Art project(s) |
| 11:20-11:45 |
Indoor or outside play |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Review and play favourite
activities, parents arrive. |
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.
7-9 year olds- As with the 5-7 year old group, we continue to
utilising age-appropriate activities, children have great fun with
conversing with each other, acting out skits and playing
stimulating games and activities.
Children's Tuition per
10 week term
1 hr. $165
+GST
1.5 hr $220
+GST
2.5 hr $330
+GST
Adult Tuition per
10 week term
- Group Classes
1 hr. $230
+GST
Note: These fees are pro-rated based on the actual
number of classes.
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
German.
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 tč, 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[citation
needed], 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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