ITALIAN
The Italian Conversation group meets weekly during normal school terms at Winthrop Gardens Atrium, Second Lane, Wickersley on Monday mornings from 10 am - 12 noon for 30 weeks of the year and is geared to those with sufficient Italian to participate in a conversation.
Meetings are held in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to join in to listen to and speak Italian whatever their level. Our objective is to help each other to communicate on topics of everyday interest and relevance rather than to seek to achieve linguistic perfection. We use varied source materials – audio, visual and written, such as YouTube videos, news items from websites, magazine articles – and each term will focus on a different e-book story. We are free flowing and democratic and open to any new ideas and topics for discussion.
The group is aimed at people who have studied some basic Italian in the past and who have some level of fluency (however basic) in speaking and understanding but may be rusty and/or just want to converse in this beautiful language. Our objective is primarily to use Italian rather than English but we do have a 15-minute tea/coffee break where any language goes!
Mondays: 10 am– 12 noon at Winthrop Park, Second Lane, Wickersley, Rotherham, during normal school terms. Free parking is available at the site.
Co-ordinator:
Diane Watson tel 01909 550454
Joint Deputy Co-ordinators:
Nigel Harrison tel 07768 022 196
Barbara Millican tel 01709 540235
Meeting dates 2024: every Monday 8 Jan – 18 Mar (not 12 Feb); 15 Apr – 1 July (not 6 & 27 May)