** Postponed til Fall term - please check our schedule in Sept. **

This powerful seminar will give you new ways to build up lexicon quickly and new ways to navigate the seemingly infinite space of vocabulary in ways that make sense and make it easy to organize your knowledge of words into manageable categories.

Learn to Cook while you learn to speak Italian!

We are offering an opportunity to learn to cook classic Italian dishes, while learn both the techniques of the Italian kitchen as well as the words and concepts associated with great cooking. You will learn the secrets of the soffrito, the beginning of all pasta recipes. This class will help the Italian student not only to cook but also to recognize regional dishes that are ubiquitous on restaurant menus.

We will all cook while we learn the techniques and terms for the ingredients And then sit down and eat what we have cooked!

Don Cushman is a novelist and publisher who divides his time between Berkeley and Rome, where he co-operates Le Fornicelle, a cooking school in the hills of Abruzzo, an hour East of Rome.

Michele Bloom, has been a private chef in Tuscany and cooked at many Berkeley restaurants, including Oliveto and Chez Panisse

This workshop is for students proficient in the Italian language, who wish to reinforce their knowledge of idioms and colloquial expressions as well as to learn new meanings to common words. In general, all exercises are based on groups of words which are different, yet appear to be synonyms to students of Italian.

This class cover various aspects of Italian prepositions and will include examples of each topic. Using interactive oral practice, students will gain an in depth knowledge of this important grammar concept.

What does it mean when an Italian tugs at the corner of his eye? Draws a straight horizontal line in the air? Presses a forefinger into his cheek? Come and learn the secrets of Italian nonverbal communication as we explore the timeless gestures that say more than a thousand words.

This workshops’ emphasis is on verbs, such as smettere/fermare, essere/stare, cercare/provare, dire/parlare, prendere/portare, prendere/fare, sapere/potere/riuscire and more.

This workshop is for students proficient in the Italian language, who wish to reinforce their knowledge of idioms and colloquial expressions as well as to learn new meanings to common words. In general, all exercises are based on groups of words which are different, yet appear to be synonyms to students of Italian.