Group Leader: Martin Jones

The group will meet at 10.30am on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Venue: Group Leader's home Alfriston.

For more information on Parliamo Group language levels, click here.

PARLIAMO 1
Meads and Seaford u3a joint group - Alfriston-based
Conversational Italian
(Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR))
Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday am in Alfriston (10.30 - 12.30)

Members contribute £1 per session for tea/coffee and biscuits

Parliamo 1 is a joint Seaford u3a and Meads (Eastbourne) u3a group for people who
already have some Italian but perhaps have had little practice in speaking it. We
meet twice a month in open and friendly two-hour sessions in which everyone gets
the chance to put their Italian into practice, and hopefully improve it over time. Our
programme is based on a mixture of loosely structured topics which are linked in
some way to things Italian.

We often use Italian texts (to read and to hear spoken) as a fixed element for part of
each session. We each have the chance to read a paragraph or two aloud, and then
translate to English. Other explorations include video podcasts, TV and film snippets,
Italian songs and their lyrics, online newspaper articles, and whatever else takes our
fancy. All members can contribute ideas for topics.

The Group’s current spoken level is predominantly elementary to post-elementary,
with the caveat that our spoken Italian is generally less developed than
comprehension skills. Whatever their level, members are encouraged (and
collectively helped) to always use Italian when speaking in the group.