Esperienza Virtuale - Italian Immersion Program
Italian Book Club

Join Our “book club” - Leggiamo Insieme!

If you want to maintain, and perhaps improve on the language skills you’ve acquired, it can be helpful to experience the language in a variety of ways. To that end, Esperienza now offers another way to stay involved, keep moving forward, and to have a little fun in the process!

2025 Book Club: Next session Starts week of July 7

There’s no better way to increase your confidence and comprehension than to take the opportunity to practice, practice, practice. In that spirit, we are continuing to offer our popular Esperienza Virtuale “Book Club.” Offered at three proficiency levels, we’ll read a book together (in Italian) and meet online for weekly discussion, to allow you to reinforce your early skills or grow in fluency.

The groups will meet via Zoom for 8 weeks and are great as a stand-alone program for experienced learners, or as an addition to our regular classes for beginning and intermediate students.

2025 Schedule

  • Summer Session: Begins the week of July 7

  • Fall Session: TBD

  • Winter Session: TBD

Click the links below for details and registration. If you’re unsure which level is right for you, please contact us, and if no programs are listed, please check back soon, or subscribe to our emails to keep in touch about program announcements.

““Chi non legge, a 70 anni avrà vissuto una sola vita: la propria. Chi legge avrà vissuto 5000 anni: c’era quando Caino uccise Abele, quando Renzo sposò Lucia, quando Leopardi ammirava l’infinito… perché la lettura è un’immortalità all’indietro.“”
— Umberto Eco

Translation: "By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality working backwards." - Umberto Eco