Italian Advanced Beginner

The instructor is good but if you just started in Idlewild’s Beginner class and then move on to Advanced Beginner, the jump between the two levels is pretty big and I had a hard time keeping up. The rest of the students had taken Italian in college or high school with several years of lessons and I only had 7 weeks going into this class. It would be a lot more helpful if the progression between the two levels was more gradual.

Loved Stefano and it was nice to remind myself how much (and how little!) Italian i already know.

I definitely learned a lot in this class, and I loved the atmosphere of the location, but it all seemed a little disorganized -- we bought the textbook and didn't use it except for homework exercises (which we didn't need to turn in, since the answers are in the book); instead, we used a lot of online resources the instructor liked. The class didn't bear a whole lot of resemblance to the syllabus, and sometimes it felt like the instructor was making things up as he went along. On days when we had to jump around from site to site on our phones, I didn't like it at all (though it did introduce us to good resources for future reference); on days when we focused on conversation, it was great.

We covered some useful material, but the class is a bit disorganized.

Stefano is the best! Grazie! He made class fun and interesting