Our new Brooklyn classes start this week!

All Idlewild’s language courses are fun and practical, and have been recommended by New York Magazine and Daily Candy.

The classes are taught in our beautiful bookstores in Manhattan (near Union Square) or Brooklyn (Cobble Hill) by native speakers with several years’ teaching experience and a participatory method that will get you speaking quickly.

In addition to basic grammar and vocabulary, our lessons incorporate in-class speaking practice and real-life situations (at the restaurant, asking and giving directions, etc) that are useful for travelers.

Our Italian classes are taught by Stefano Di Cicco or Claudia Galeffi, both natives of Italy with several years’ teaching experience.

================================

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT

10-week 75 min evening courses $285 (regular price $380 – save 25%)
10-week 60 min daytime courses $195 (regular price $300 – save 35%)

================================

BROOKLYN SCHEDULE
249 Warren St (between Court and Smith)

Italian for Beginners
SOLD OUT – Tuesdays 6:00-7:15 pm | Feb 7 – Apr 10 | more info
1 SPACE LEFT – Saturdays 12:00-1:00 pm | Feb 11 – Apr 14 | more info
NEW! - Saturdays 1:30-2:30 pm | Feb 11 – Apr 14 | more info

Classes at the Advanced Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels will start in April. To receive updates, enter your email address in the subscribe box in the left column.

===============================

MANHATTAN SCHEDULE
12 W.19th St (between 5th and 6th)

Italian for Beginners
Thursdays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 26 – March 29 | more info
Saturdays 3:00-4:00 pm | January 28 – March 31 | more info

Italian Advanced Beginner
Saturdays 4:30-5:30 pm | January 28 – March 31 | more info

Italian Intermediate (Comics and Conversation)
Tuesdays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 31 – April 3 | more info

================================

Our Spring 2012 session starts in April. To receive updates, enter your email address in the subscribe box in the left column.
===============================

- All courses meet once a week for ten weeks (75 minutes per session for evening classes and 60 minutes per session for daytime classes).
- Class size is limited to 14 people. Classes fill up fast and availability is first-come, first-served.
- Our teachers employ a dynamic method that emphasizes grammar and vocabulary but is focused primarily on spoken profiency and oral comprehension.
- There are no make-up classes. On the first day of class, each student will receive a syllabus that lists the weekly assignments so you can keep up with your studies if you have to miss a class.
- If you wish to cancel your registration, you must contact Idlewild by telephone or email at least seven days before the start date of your class to receive a refund. If you wish to postpone your registration to a later session, you must contact Idlewild at least three days before the start date of your class to receive a credit toward a future session (good for one year).

Click on the links above for course descriptions

If you have further questions about which level class is right for you, please send an email to classes@idlewildbooks.com. Grazie!

Our new Brooklyn classes start this week!

Idlewild’s language courses are fun and practical, and have been recommended by New York Magazine and Daily Candy.

The classes are taught in our beautiful bookstores in Manhattan (near Union Square) or Brooklyn (Cobble Hill) by native speakers with several years’ teaching experience and a participatory method that will get you speaking quickly.

In addition to basic grammar and vocabulary, our lessons incorporate in-class speaking practice and real-life situations (at the restaurant, asking and giving directions, etc) that are useful for travelers.

Our Spanish classes are taught by Juan Vallejo, a native of Colombia with more than 10 years’ teaching experience in New York, including at Berlitz.

For more info or to register, click on one of the links below or contact us at (212) 414-8888 or classes@idlewildbooks.com

================================

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT

10-week 75 min evening courses $285 (regular price $380 – save 25%)
10-week 60 min daytime courses $195 (regular price $300 – save 35%)

BROOKLYN SCHEDULE
249 Warren St (between Court and Smith)

Spanish for Beginners
1 SPACE LEFT – Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 pm | Feb 7 – Apr 10 | more info
SOLD OUT - Thursdays 6:00-7:15 pm | Feb 9 – Apr 12 | more info

Spanish Advanced Beginner
Thursdays 7:30-8:45 pm | Feb 9 – Apr 12 | more info

================================

Spanish for Beginners
Mondays 6:00-7:15 pm | January 23 – March 26 | more info
Wednesdays 1:30-2:30 pm | January 25 – March 28 | more info

Spanish Advanced Beginner
Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 pm | January 25 – March 28 | more info
Wednesdays 6:00-7:15 pm | January 25 – March 28 | more info

Spanish Intermediate
Mondays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 23 – March 26 | more info
Tuesdays 12:00-1:00 pm | January 24 – March 27 | more info

Spanish Advanced (Conversation)
Wednesdays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 25 – March 28 | more info

===============================
Our Spring 2012 session starts in April. To receive updates, enter your email address in the subscribe box in the left column.
===============================

Click on the links above for course descriptions

– All courses meet once a week for ten weeks (75 minutes per session for evening classes and 60 minutes per session for daytime classes).
- Class size is limited to 14 people. Availability is first-come, first-served.
- Our teachers employ a dynamic method that emphasizes grammar and vocabulary but is focused primarily on spoken profiency and oral comprehension.
- There are no make-up classes. On the first day of class, each student will receive a syllabus that lists the weekly assignments so you can keep up with your studies if you have to miss a class.
- If you wish to cancel your registration, you must contact Idlewild by telephone or email at least seven days before the start date of your class to receive a refund. If you wish to postpone your registration, you must contact Idlewild at least three days before the start date to receive a credit toward a future class (good for one year).

If you have further questions about which level class is right for you, please send an email to classes@idlewildbooks.com. Gracias!

Idlewild’s language courses are fun and practical, and have been recommended by New York Magazine and Daily Candy.

The classes are taught in our beautiful bookstores in Manhattan (near Union Square) or Brooklyn (Cobble Hill) by native speakers with several years’ teaching experience and a participatory method that will get you speaking quickly.

In addition to basic grammar and vocabulary, our lessons incorporate in-class speaking practice and real-life situations (at the restaurant, asking and giving directions, etc) that are useful for travelers.

Our French classes are taught by Maurice Jean-Baptiste Brochet, a native of Paris, or Marie Lipp, from northeast France, both of whom have extensive experience teaching and tutoring in New York, including at Berlitz and The Rennert School.

For more info or to register, click on one of the links below or contact us at 212-414-8888 or classes@idlewildbooks.com

================================

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT

10-week 75 min evening courses $285 (regular price $380 – save 25%)
10-week 60 min daytime courses $195 (regular price $300 – save 35%)

================================

================================

MANHATTAN SCHEDULE
12 W.19th St (between 5th and 6th)

French for Beginners
Mondays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 23 – March 26 | more info
Thursdays 1:30-2:30pm | January 26 – March 29 | more info
Thursdays 6:00-7:15 pm | January 26 – March 29 | more info

French Advanced Beginner
Wednesdays 7:30-8:45pm | January 25 – March 28 | more info
Thursdays 12:00-1:00 pm | January 26 – March 29 | more info
Saturdays 1:30-2:30 pm | January 28 – March 31 | more info

French Intermediate (Comics and Conversation)
Tuesdays 6:00-7:15 pm | January 24 – March 27 | more info
Thursdays 7:30-8:45 pm | January 26 – March 29 | more info
Saturdays 12:00-1:00 pm | January 28 – March 31 | more info

===============================

Click on the links above for course descriptions

- All courses meet once a week for ten weeks (75 minutes per session for evening classes and 60 minutes per session for daytime classes).
- Class size is limited to 14 people. Availability is first-come, first-served.
- Our teachers employ a dynamic method that emphasizes grammar and vocabulary but is focused primarily on spoken profiency and oral comprehension.
- There are no make-up classes. On the first day of class, each student will receive a syllabus that lists the weekly assignments so you can keep up with your studies if you have to miss a class.
- If you wish to cancel your registration, you must contact Idlewild by telephone or email at least seven days before the start date of your class to receive a refund. If you wish to postpone your registration to a later session, you must contact Idlewild at least three days before to receive a credit toward a future class (good for one year).

If you have further questions about which level class is right for you, please send an email to classes@idlewildbooks.com. Merci!

Fridays 7:00 to 9:30 pm, February 10 – March 16, 2012
Instructor: David Farley (bio below)

This six-week writing class will focus on how to turn your travel experiences into solid travel writing – either for your own personal enjoyment or to become a published travel writer. We’ll discuss: story ideas and the elements of good and not-so-good travel writing; how to conduct pre-trip research and spot stories while on the road; and how to write the perfect lead and to pitch potential and completed stories to magazine editors.

Weekly lectures will be followed by in-class writing assignments or a workshop in which we critique students’ work. In addition to in-class assignments, you will be responsible for at least one longer travel story to be workshopped in class.

Lecture schedule:

Week 1 – Types of articles: destination pieces, travel round-ups, news features, and more.

Week 2 – Anatomy of an article, and analysis of classic travel writing.

Week 3 – Recognizing potential stories or angles, and how to pitch them.

Week 4 – Travel memoir and personal essays.

Week 5 – Research, revision, and the business of travel writing.

Week 6 – The art of travel: traveling for fun and profit.

About the instructor: David Farley is the author of An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town (Penguin/Gotham Books), a travel memoir/narrative history about farley’s bizarre, intriguing, and sometimes humorous search for one of Christianity’s most curious relics: the foreskin of Jesus.

David is also the co-editor of Travelers’ Tales Prague and the Czech Republic, an anthology of literary nonfiction about the Czech capital and its environs. His travel essays have also appeared in the books, The Best Travel Writing 2009, The Best Travelers’ Tales 2004 and 30 Days in Italy. In 2005, David’s story, “Natural Born Pig Killers,” won a Lowell Thomas Award, which recognizes excellence in travel writing. A year later, his story “Of Kings and Cows” was named one of the notable travel stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2006.

David spends his time eating, drinking, traveling and then writing about it. His work appears in the travel sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Tribune, as well as the magazines Conde Nast Traveler, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Playboy, GQ, New York magazine, Time Out New York, Scientific American, National Geographic Traveler, WorldHum.com, Slate.com, and TheDailyBeast.com among other publications. He’s also a regular contributor to The New York Times’ “In Transit” blog. He’s talked about his travels on the Fine Living network and radio stations all over the country. He’s lectured at the Smithsonian Institute and the New York Times Travel Show. In addition to his class at Idlewild, David teaches writing at New York University and Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

Beginner, Advanced Beginner and Intermediate classes available. Courses start soon!

Beginner, Advanced Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced classes available. Courses start soon!

Beginner, Advanced Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced classes available. Courses start soon!