ITALIAN ACCELERATOR
Perfect if you are an advanced beginner or an Incubator graduate!
Una nuova avventura 3D inizia qui!
Let's take your Italian to the next level!
ITALIAN CAMPUS
Italian Accelerator is the second step of Italian Campus
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Incubate
Accelerate
Keep Momentum
Italian Campus is a holistic learning experience, designed with the 3D Method.
It allows the student to lay solid foundations for basic Italian fluency and gain the confidence to actually use it!
What's in the Accelerator?
- 7 weeks designed and delivered with the 3D method
- Weekly units with self-paced lessons
- Italian history, culture and life style
- Pausa caffè ☕: conversation practice
- Grammar Clinic - live weekly Q&A 🩺
- Individual feedback on your assignments
- Supportive international community
- Flexibility, accountability & support.
Let's have a truly immersive experience:
Go to an Italian restaurant
Check into a hotel in Italy
Have a well-made espresso
Buy a house in Italy
Go to an Italian doctor
Go shopping and grocery shopping
Travel around Italy
Meet people who shaped Italy
And what about grammar?
- Verbi irregolari | Irregular verbs (present tense)
- Verbi servili | Modal verbs
- Passato prossimo - avere
- Passato prossimo - essere
- Preposizioni semplici | Simple prepositions
- Preposizioni articolate | Compound prepositions
- Verbi riflessivi | Reflexive verbs
If you are a beginner, or a self-taught learner, in need of a thorough review, take a look at
Italian Incubator
to start from the beginning and build from the ground up!
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A UNIQUE ITALIAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM
a perfect mix of self-paced and live learning
Experience a holistic learning process, carefully structured, with a step-by-step guidance and culturally relevant content.
In this 7-week course, you will find everything you need to build your Italian fluency with a mix of guided self-paced and live tutoring, conversation practice and a supportive international
community to hold you accountable in your progress.
IS THIS ITALIAN COURSE FOR ME?
This program is perfect for you if:
- You are an Italian Incubator graduate.
- You are a beginner in Italian with some basic knowledge
- You are a self-taught learner, at an elementary or pre-elementary level, in need of a structured program and a supportive community.
- You are committed to the process and wish to make progress and develop all your language skills.
- You are passionate about Italy and would like to feel at home there.
Accelerate your path to fluency
Weekly Units & Multimedia
Self-paced weekly units, with 5-6 lessons. Functional vocabulary, bite-sized grammar and cultural elements explored through audio, video, texts and downloads. The exercises will simultaneously engage all of your learning skills.
You will be able to access all contents for 6 months and review all lessons more than once after the group course is over.
Grammar Clinic & Feedback on your assignments
Live Q&A session, the Grammar Clinic, to ask questions, solve doubts and discuss the challenges of the weekly module.
You will be able to submit your weekly assignment to the instructor and receive feedback.
Pausa Caffè conversation sessions
Weekly meetings in the course community to practice speaking Italian and apply the new vocabulary acquired in the module in a supportive and protected environment.
Many of the study buddies in our programs have become good friends.
Pronunciation workout
Community & Accountability
Share your progress, ask questions, participate in discussions and connect with like-minded people in our supportive international Course Community.
Mindset and methodology
Efficient learning techniques and the right mindset are fundamental for steady progress. You will find mindset and methodology tips throughout the course
You are in good hands
Hi, I'm Tania Troyan.
I am the founder of 7-week Italian and the creator of the 3D method for holistic language acquisition.
I've always been fascinated by the mechanisms of the human brain involved in language learning, and by the dynamics of reaching full proficiency in non-native languages.
I've spent years (over two decades actually - sounds surreal!) exploring those mechanisms, focusing mainly on the Italian language, culture, history and art (things that are inseparable in life... and in my language programs).
I have created the 3D method because I felt there was a need for a teaching methodology centred on what happens to the student and not just on what happens in the language.
My approach is structured and holistic. It's based on elements of neuroscience and provides tools and techniques to fast-track fluency in all language skills.
Every step of this journey will bring you closer to your goal: understanding, speaking and thinking in Italian.
Benvenuti! Welcome to 7-week Italian!
At 7-week Italian (7WIT) we create self-paced Italian language courses, with a unique mix of live coaching and community learning.
We design our all our courses with a great passion for Italian and with our unique teaching methodology, the 3D Method, for holistic learning experience.
Why 7 weeks? It's the perfect time frame for an Italian language course. It is the time necessary for our brain to rewire and, applied to language learning, to transition to the next proficiency level.
We are passionate about Italian culture and believe that language is its most faithful mirror. You will find a wealth of culturally relevant content in our courses, together with functional vocabulary, contest-related exercises and useful linguistic survival techniques.
Following our courses you will acquire efficient learning tools and set up the correct mindset for a result-oriented and rewarding learning process.
Learning a language is acquiring a new linguistic and cultural identity.
Our programs support you on this journey by developing your language skills simultaneously
and exposing you to relevant cultural content.
OUR METHODOLOGY
At 7-week Italian we have developed a unique methodology that allows our students to undergo a
holistic learning experience.
We call it the 3D Method, because it is an all-encompassing methodology that involves the 3 dimensions of the learning process: the language, the student, and the student's environment.
We believe that learning a language can be a rewarding and joyous process, and the results usually depend on the learning techniques and the methodology applied, rather just than on your personal aptitude or memory.
By following the fundamentals of our methodology, adopting the right mindset and using the techniques we provide you can avoid overwhelm, grow your abilities steadily, make measurable progress and enjoy using Italian from the very first steps.
growing language skills simultaneously
Learning Italian means acquiring the 4 main language skills: reading, writing, listening comprehension and speaking. Our courses allow the students to work on these skills simultaneously from the very beginning, in order to ensure a steady and balanced progress. There is one more skill we help to build into the process: thinking in Italian from the very first steps, instead of translating from your native language.
TREATING LANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION TOOL
For the human brain language is a communication tool. Yet, most teaching methods treat it as an end goal in itself. Our method uses language as a means to an end. By using Italian to acquire and process information, we make it relevant, engaging and memorable. All our content is enriched with cultural references, because we believe Italian culture is paramount for gaining real mastery of the language.
making language relevant TO LEARNER'S REALITY
The relevance of the content that is being learned and the way they are structured to interact with the student's reality is paramount. It’s infinitely easier to process new words that are related to the student's interests, professional activity, future plans or everyday life situations. This makes the process of language acquisition a more rewarding one, given the immediate use and relevance of the language.
Reviews
5
Top Rated
Valeria Westra
An innovative way to learn Italian
This is my third Italian course, and it's by far the best one. I love Tania's innovative approach to learning when we engage all our learning faculties to achieve understanding and speaking fast. I love the variety of classes and that's there's always a new, exciting class waiting for me in the classroom. Many thanks to Tania and the entire team for keeping us engaged, motivated, and improving day after day. I already see my next trip to Italy being much more rewarding and exciting!
Zachary Baroin
Loved Accelerator!
I loved Accelerator. It was great to go beyond the basics and get into the past tense. I enjoyed the lessons even when I found them difficult to grasp. It took me much longer than I thought it would to complete Accelerator, but that is just where I am at in my life right now. I haven't had as much time to put towards it as I would like. I am looking forward to re-committing for the next step and participating more in the community. See you all on the learning path!
Joe Pruss
The Journey Continues!
Accelerator complete! I liked progressing at my own pace, since it allowed my time to go back to reinforce what I learned in Incubator, which strengthened my foundation. Between the lessons and emphasis on pronunciation through Tania’s Masterclasses & VivaVoce, I’m gaining confidence in my ability to speak correctly. Francesco & Oreste are marvelous tutors and are always very encouraging, even when I make careless errors :) Learning about the culture, historic people with connections to Italy, and recalling my personal experiences while in Italy continue to help grow my Italian identity, which was my goal since I started the 3D Method. I look forward to the next step of the journey (Ripasso Uno). For those in Incubator thinking about continuing after graduating, learning a language is a marathon not a sprint. Keep going; the next steps of the program will not disappoint. Grazie mille!
Beth Lewis
Outstanding class!
I feel so much more confident. I did take extra time to work through Accelerator and I am glad I did. I finally embraced the Verb calendar and of course it works well. I have an excellent Pausa Caffè group. The Deep Dives and Masterclasses are so helpful. Thanks to all!
Veronica Hill
Learning to belong!
I have really enjoyed Accelerator. It has helped me to grow in confidence in putting together coherent Italian in both written and spoken forms. It has taken me further than I had anticipated in my journey. I feel supported and encouraged by the tutors and the other students, something that has been lacking in other online courses - languages and other training - I have been involved with. It is giving me a genuine sense of belonging to a group of wonderful people. I particularly like the ways the teaching is presented, showing a depth of information about Italy and its culture, while delivering quite complex grammatical messages, always in an accessible way. The various Q&As, Masterclasses, Deep Dives etc., reinforce the messages without being repetitive. I was looking forward to my upcoming visit to Italy and Accelerator has just enhanced this feeling. Grazie mille a tutti!
Maria Megill
Speaking and thinking in Italian
I began this course in February and by August I find myself speaking and thinking in Italian. I was raised hearing Italian but I always responded in English. It turns out, listening and speaking are processed in different parts of the brain. I’m finally able to develop the speaking portion with the help of this course. I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to learn Italian. The language is beautiful. The program is well organized with live online classes and with excellent teachers. You also have access to the Campus library where you can study at your own pace between live lectures. The course is professionally presented and highly recommended!
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