Travel Bug Conversational Language Classes
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Travel Bug is offering Extensive Conversational Language Classes in Spanish and Italian
Looking for a French native speaker interested in teaching.
Italian
Elisabetta Mazzantini
e.mazzantini1@gmail.com 505-577-1014
Italian Native Speaker Elisabetta Mazzantini is an Italian native from Rome. She is a linguist, who has taught Italian as a foreign language since she moved to Santa Fe in 2000, initially at the Santa Fe Community College, and then to many groups, both at the Travel Bug and on Zoom, as well as to numerous private students. She has also worked as a freelance English-Italian translator and interpreter for over 30 years.
ReviewClasses will meet for 6 weeks at the Travel Bug for 1 hour and 15 minutes each time.
A “Pimsleur” subscription will be required (https://www.pimsleur.com/). The recorded ½ hour audio lessons will provide the core of the material the classes are based on. A non-verbatim transcript of each ½ hour lesson will be sent as a reference and reinforcement of the audio files. Your assignment each week will be to have listened to and feel reasonably comfortable with two of the recorded lessons prior to each class meeting.
We have taught using the Pimsleur Language Program for years and are confident that it is one of the most effective recorded language programs. There are 150 half-hour lessons in all, that we divide into 10-lesson series (5 weeks). After 5 classes there will be one additional Review class in which we’ll review all the material studied during the previous classes, for a total of a 6-week cycle.
Cost: $180 + 12.60 tax= $192.60 – To secure a spot in class, payment should be received at least one week prior to the first class. Payment by check, cash or Paypal.
Class Levels offered:
Beginners (A1 through A3)
Beginner/Intermediate (B4 through B6)
Intermediate (C7 through C9)
Intermediate-Advanced (D10 through D12)
Advanced (E13 through E15).
To determine your level, please contact Elisabetta, she will help you assess which class will be the best fit for you. Other non-Pimsleur-based classes also offered. Please inquire.
Spanish
Clara Evans
clr.evans@gmail.com 505-310-3443
Originating from Veracruz, Mexico, Clara Evans is a native Spanish speaker with exceptional bilingual, bi-literate, and bicultural proficiency. Clara earned a B.A. in Applied Linguistics and an M.A. in Education, Clara has seamlessly blended her academic achievements with her cultural roots.Throughout her professional career, Clara has played dual roles as both an esteemed teacher and a capable administrator. Her dedication extended across continents, serving students of diverse ages, from elementary to adulthood, in both Europe and the U.S. We take immense pride in welcoming Clara to our team, where her rich background and extensive experience will undoubtedly contribute to our collective success.
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Lola
lola9790@gmail.com 650 796 3981
Native of Barcelona Spain
Drop in Classes
25$ per class
The class is ongoing. Students do not need to commit to a block of lessons, but they will join a mailing list to receive articles or stories. The class will be conversational, talking about student personal adventures and discussing a story or article she will send ahead of time to the students in the group. Grammar will be discussed or reviewed when needed. Contact her for more information!
Spanish
Steve Brown
spbrown@bauer.uh.edu 832-655-0801
Steve Brown took to Spanish easily and enthusiastically in high school, a long time ago, and stayed with it through college, graduate school, and work experience– first as editor of a prestigious Latin American history journal at the University of Arizona, and later as regional sales manager for South America for a college textbook publisher. He has taught graduate-level business courses in Spanish at the National University of Chile and traveled very extensively throughout Spain and Latin America, on both business and pleasure. As a senior in high school, he won a scholarship for a summer’s travel in Mexico for top performance on a standardized national Spanish exam. Having retired as Professor Emeritus of Marketing at the University of Houston in 2017, he is striving to attain the Spanish government’s highest certification of mastery (DELE C2) in Spanish as a second language in May 2025.
Language Classes meet in our store at various times. Please sign up for our mailing list to be informed of the next classes.
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