Esperienza Virtuale - Italian Immersion Program
Italian Book Club

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!

2024 Book Club: Next session Starts in March

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.

  • Fall Session Week of October 14 -December 9 (no meeting the week of November 25)

  • Winter Session: Begins early March 2025

Click the links below for details and registration. If you’re unsure which level is right for you, please contact our Program Director, Emanuela, directly.

Intensive Italian Study Options

For those looking for a more rigorous option when our regular classes are not in session, current students may continue studying in an online private or semi-private class. Contact us for more information.

““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