La Bella Fiugura: The Italian Survival Guide
A six week series of Italian Language Lessons with Ines Rodrigues
Did you know that if you order a pepperoni pizza in Italy, you might get one topped with bell peppers? To avoid mistakes like this, take this Italian survival course with Ines Rodrigues. You’ll learn basic conversation, how to approach Italian culture, and the dos and don’ts for American tourists in Italy. After six weeks, you’ll be ready to navigate this fascinating country well, and have much more fun.
Ines Rodrigues is a writer, teacher, and translator. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University and is certified by the University of Perugia, Italy. Based in New York, she has been writing fiction and teaching Italian for almost twenty years. Ines has worked as an interpreter for Italian personalities such as Laura Pausini and Eros Ramazzotti.
She teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Hugo House, Bronxville Adult School, and LMCCE. Her first novel, Days of Bossa Nova, was published in 2017, and her fiction and translation works appear in The Plentitudes Journal, Tint Journal, 650Writers Read, and ANMLY.org. In 2023, she received the Word for Word grant from Columbia University to develop a translation project with the Italian writer Lorenza Sabatino in Turin, Italy. www.inesrodriguesauthor.com
Saturdays, 10am-11:30am - March 28th, (skip April 4th), April 11th, 18th & 25th, May 2nd (skip May 9th) and Final class May 16th
Maximum number of students accepted: 12
Registration fee: $375 per student