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The Fort Collins Italian Club is excited to offer Italian language classes for all levels—whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your skills. Join our welcoming community and immerse yourself in the beauty of the Italian language while connecting with others who share your passion for Italian culture. It’s a fun and engaging way to learn and grow. Sign up today and take your first step toward speaking Italian—a presto! .
The Fort Collins Italian Club is excited to offer Italian language classes for all levels—whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your skills. Join our welcoming community and immerse yourself in the beauty of the Italian language while connecting with others who share your passion for Italian culture. It’s a fun and engaging way to learn and grow. Sign up today and take your first step toward speaking Italian—a presto! .
Italian Classes with the Fort Collins Italian Club
Italian Classes with the Fort Collins Italian Club
The Fort Collins Italian Club offers Italian classes in four-week sections, with one class held per week. Classes typically take place at the local library or other announced locations. Designed to be progressive, each lesson builds on the last, ensuring steady improvement. Best of all, proceeds from class sign-ups help fund our special events, including Italian music concerts and cultural celebrations.
The Fort Collins Italian Club offers Italian classes in four-week sections, with one class held per week. Classes typically take place at the local library or other announced locations. Designed to be progressive, each lesson builds on the last, ensuring steady improvement. Best of all, proceeds from class sign-ups help fund our special events, including Italian music concerts and cultural celebrations.
Join us and learn Italian while supporting our vibrant community!
Join us and learn Italian while supporting our vibrant community!
Beginner Classes: Perfect for those starting their Italian journey! Learn basic vocabulary, phrases, and grammar to help you navigate simple conversations and fall in love with the language.
Beginner Classes: Perfect for those starting their Italian journey! Learn basic vocabulary, phrases, and grammar to help you navigate simple conversations and fall in love with the language.
Intermediate Classes: Take your skills to the next level! Build on your foundation with more complex grammar, expanded vocabulary, and conversational practice to boost your confidence.
Intermediate Classes: Take your skills to the next level! Build on your foundation with more complex grammar, expanded vocabulary, and conversational practice to boost your confidence.
Advanced Classes: Designed for fluent or near-fluent speakers looking to refine their language skills. Dive into advanced grammar, idiomatic expressions, and in-depth discussions on Italian culture and literature.
Advanced Classes: Designed for fluent or near-fluent speakers looking to refine their language skills. Dive into advanced grammar, idiomatic expressions, and in-depth discussions on Italian culture and literature.
Italian Classes, May 2026
Italian Classes, May 2026
Intermediate Class for May
Intermediate Class for May
Our Intermediate Italian Class is a continuation of our Beginner Plus April Series. All are welcome to join, but we ask that you have either taken our Beginner Plus class or have a decent foundation in gender and number agreement and present tense conjugations. If you are unsure if you're a good fit, please feel free to reach out to focoitalianclub@gmail.com with any questions.
Our Intermediate Italian Class is a continuation of our Beginner Plus April Series. All are welcome to join, but we ask that you have either taken our Beginner Plus class or have a decent foundation in gender and number agreement and present tense conjugations. If you are unsure if you're a good fit, please feel free to reach out to focoitalianclub@gmail.com with any questions.
Classes will be offered at Tandem2 from 6pm - 7pm on Tuesday evenings from May 12th - June 2nd. There are 4 classes in total. The cost for the series is $60. The detailed syllabus for each class is below.
Classes will be offered at Tandem2 from 6pm - 7pm on Tuesday evenings from May 12th - June 2nd. There are 4 classes in total. The cost for the series is $60. The detailed syllabus for each class is below.
Syllabus:
Syllabus:
Tuesday, May 12th, 6pm - 7pm: Review of present tense conjugations for "Essere" and "Avere", as well as review of present tense reflexive verbs.
We'll do some speaking exercises to get comfortable with Essere and Avere
Speaking exercises talking about getting ready in the morning and our routine (reflexive verbs)
Tuesday, May 19th, 6pm - 7pm: Introduction to past tense "Passato Prossimo"
Cover how we create the past participle (a key construction to create the past tense)
Create the past tense using the auxiliary verb "Avere"
Practice talking about what we did in the past
Tuesday, May 26th, 6pm - 7pm: Continue construction of the past tense (passato prossimo) using the auxiliary verb "Essere"
Review gender + number agreement
Practice constructing the past tense (passato prossimo)
Practice talking about what we did in the past
Tuesday, June 2nd, 6pm - 7pm: Putting it all together!
We will read a short story in the past tense
We'll go over discussion questions about the reading so we can practice our Italian speaking
Drop-in, Peer-taught, Morning Classes are Now Available!
Drop-in, Peer-taught, Morning Classes are Now Available!
We are now starting drop-in morning classes that occur before our standard group meet-up time on Saturdays. Classes will be from 9am - 10am at Avogadro's Number every Saturday. No sign up is required, although we do ask for a $5 donation per class. The topics will be as follows:
We are now starting drop-in morning classes that occur before our standard group meet-up time on Saturdays. Classes will be from 9am - 10am at Avogadro's Number every Saturday. No sign up is required, although we do ask for a $5 donation per class. The topics will be as follows:
Saturday, May 9th: Review of Essere (To be) and Avere (To have)
Saturday, May 16th: Review of Definite Articles ("The") and learning possessive pronouns ("my", "your", etc.)
Saturday, May 23rd: Review of gender and number agreement - forming basic sentences
Saturday, May 30th: Questo and Quello ("This and That")
Instructors
Instructors
Rachael Gwinn
Rachael Gwinn
Rachael Gwinn has had a love for both Italian and teaching since college. She graduated with majors in Linguistics and Italian, including a year of immersion at the Università di Padova. During graduate school she worked as a freelance translator, and began teaching Italian classes in 2019. Her teaching style focuses on the grammatical building blocks of the language, with an emphasis on why different constructions occur, when they're similar to English, and when they differ. When not teaching Italian or attending Italian club, Rachael spends her working hours as a Machine Learning Engineer and during her off hours she enjoys climbing, snowboarding, or knitting.
Zanny Merullo
Zanny Merullo
Zanny Merullo grew up in an Italian-American family in western Massachusetts and started learning Italian as a kid when she spent time in Italy. She attended some high school in Rimini and volunteered in Napoli as a young adult, and travels to the bel paese when she can. Zanny works as a freelance travel journalist and lives in Fort Collins, where Italian Club is the highlight of her week. You can learn more about her at
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