Weilà Group Lessons
*FREE FIRST LESSON - For a limited time only, your first lesson as a first-time student will be free! If you’ve been wanting to start taking Group Lessons with me, now’s a great chance to try them out! E-mail me to join my mailing list today so you’ll be among the first to know when I’ve got the next Group Lesson planned and what topics we’ll be covering! Can’t wait to see you in class!
I teach weekly Italian grammar and conversation lessons on Zoom! To attend a lesson, email me at info@weilatom.com to sign up for my mailing list to receive the weekly Group Lesson Invitation Email,
1. What are Group Lessons?
If you’ve been looking for structured classes that get to the heart of all things Italian and designed for students of all levels, you’ve come to the right place! Every Sunday on Zoom from 10am-11am US Eastern Time I offer Group Lessons on Italian grammar. Most Fridays from 5:30pm-6:30pm US EST I also teach Group Conversation Lessons.
Grammar lessons are taught in English and Conversation lessons are conducted mostly in Italian. Each class builds off of the last, but is tailored to the needs of the students present based on their questions. I take all notes on my digital whiteboard throughout the lesson and email students a copy after class.
Grammar lessons also come with a custom homework exercise that I design based on the material we covered in class.
2. How can I sign up?
To sign up, join my mailing list by emailing me at info@weilatom.com . Every Wednesday I send out the Group Lesson Invitation Email sharing what topics we’ll be covering that week. To RSVP for any of the lessons offered, simply reply to that email and indicate which lessons you’d like to attend. I will then email you the invoice to secure your spot. (I also post the Invitation Email on my Instagram Stories @weilatom)
Once payment is received, you’ll receive the Zoom link for Friday lessons on Friday and for the Sunday lessons Zoom link is sent out on Saturday.
Many times students only know last minute that they’ll be able to attend a lesson, that’s totally fine! In order to make sure I see your email, am able to send you the invoice, and for you to have enough time process payment, I can accept last-minute RSVPs within 30 minutes of a lesson start time.
3. How much does it cost?
$20 USD per student.
$10 USD if you’d just like the class notes + homework and cannot attend the live lesson.
I operate on a “pay-as-you-go” method, meaning you can attend as many lessons with me as you’d like. Just because you take one lesson does not mean you have to attend every single one. To get the most out of the program, attending more than one lesson will be helpful as each lesson builds off of the last, but every student has different needs and goals. Since starting to offer Group Lessons 2.5 years ago, we’ve built a really nice community of learners and I’d be happy to have you join us!
Payments are handled securely through PayPal and must be processed prior to the start of the lesson in order to receive the Zoom link to enter the classroom. You do not need a PayPal account in order to pay the invoice. PayPal accepts several different payment methods, including Venmo, Debit or Credit Card.
4. What happens if I pay but then can’t make it?
If you pay for a lesson and can either no longer attend or miss/forget about a lesson, please send me an email at info@weilatom.com to let me know. Lessons are final sale and no refunds are available. Students can apply the payment for the missed lesson towards a lesson the following week.
5. Class participation
One of the great things about our lessons is that we have a lively and engaged group of students of all ages who join us week after week. I very much encourage student participation and want students to share when they understand or don’t understand something, to ask questions, and to share any tips and tricks they’ve learned to help everyone better understand the material.
Grammar lessons are conducted in English, but students are more than welcome to speak in Italian when participating and I will respond in kind. Conversation lessons are conducted in Italian, however, we use English as a facilitator to help make sense of any difficult-to-understand or new words and to translate something a student would like to say, but doesn’t know how to. Conversation lessons are more than just a space to speak Italian, we also focus on how to speak Italian and English is a tool to help us achieve that.
When not participating during a lesson, students are asked to mute their microphone so no outside noise enters the classroom. Students are can choose to keep their cameras on or off. Our lessons are never recorded.
6. Does it matter if I’m a beginner or advanced student?
All of my Group Lessons, whether on Grammar or Conversation, are open to students of all levels of Italian. It is suggested a student have at least a level A2-B1 level, meaning they’ve been exposed to areas such as the Present tense, Passato Prossimo, Imperfetto, Futuro, and Object Pronouns.
While each Grammar lesson is inherently of a specific level based on the topic we cover, I do my best to divide lessons into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced sections whenever possible. Even though concepts naturally build off of one another and we go through topics in a chronological or logical order, it doesn’t matter whether you join us every week or every so often, you’ll always be able to follow what’s going on.
Oftentimes I’ll teach General Italian Grammar Lessons in which we cover multiple different areas of Italian grammar in one lesson. These lessons are great to simulate what its like when you’re in Italy and surrounded by the language without different topics being separated.
A good way to know if Conversation lessons are right for you would be to determine if you can successfully ask or answer simple questions in Italian. I would say so long as you’ve been studying Italian for about 6 months to a year, you should be in a good position to start taking Conversation lessons.
7. I still have more questions
For any other questions, please feel free to email me at info@weilatom.com. Due to volume, I may not get to your email right away. I do my best to get to every email I receive, but if you do not hear back from me within a few days, you can feel free to send me a follow up email.
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Hope to see you in class!