​How to order at the Italian bar? Check out our newest video from our channel! You will also learn how to use the indefinite article uno, un, una and un'! A lesson for beginning Italian students! Click here below   https://youtu.be/gEgtkdHJ8h4

​DANTE AND MUSIC EVENT! Tomorrow I will be moderating a virtual lecture/discussion on the topic of Dante's Divine Comedy and music presented by Prof. Ciabattoni from Georgetown University Thursday April 22nd at 5:30 p.m. on ZOOM at the following link: https://loyola.zoom.us/j/4687812737 The event will be FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC. It will be in English (but will contain some readings and texts in Italian) and is organized by the Italian division at Loyola University Maryland and is part of the worldwide celebration of Dante's 700 years anniversary. I hope you can make it! 

​New video in our channel: Che musica ti piace? Live singing from our special guest: a Soprano (Prof.ssa Nobuko)! Don't forget to subscribe to our channel as we have more videos coming up to learn/practice Italian (just for you!) https://youtu.be/9ZI8C-k-mkk

Delighted to announce that Prof. Applauso just published a new studies in the volume DIversity in Italian Studies about teaching Italian in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Applauso's study features highlights about the new Italian program founded in 2018 at Morgan State University. This program is of historic importance since it is currently the only Italian program currently taught in a HBCU across the United States!

​If you are interested in an ONLINE Dante’s Purgatorio course NEXT WEEK Tuesday April 6, you are invited to embark in an extraordinary 12-weeks journey for intermediate and advanced Italian language learners. This virtual course focuses on one of the most important Italian masterpieces of all time: Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY. We will read and explore together the Purgatorio (ALL in Italian). JOIN US here: https://www.applausoitaliancenter.com/dantes-divine...

​Very honored to be invited by the University of Trento by Prof. Claudia Di Fonzo, Italy to an event sponsored by the City of Florence, Italy and the Dante Society of France. The event will be virtual and all in Italian and take place from April 8 to10. We hope you can join us!

​Our Italian 103 students are doing a FABOLOUS job with the passato prossimo! Last night they were all able to describe the plot of 2 famous Italian movies by speaking entirely in ITALIAN!. We have an international group! While the majority of them is from Maryland, we also have students from Pennsylvania and one is joining us from Taiwan, China!