Group Organiser	Christine Skipsey Italian Beginners
Venue	Chatham Library
Meeting Days	Every Monday apart from bank holidays from 1:30 - 3.00 pm
Group Vacancies?	Yes

We are now moving up to Intermediate level Italian as we have been learning for 3 years and new members of Medway u3a will need to be at this stage to join.

If at a lower level than Intermediate please contact the Groups Coordinator who has a waiting list for a new Beginners Italian Group in 2026.

We started in November 2022 as a beginners’ conversation group. We all had some previous experience of learning Italian, from distant O-Levels to more recent Ad Ed courses, but we were not confident about speaking it. 

We help each other to  have simple conversations about what we’ve been doing; we tell each other about our hobbies and holidays, and what we’ve been reading; we  read simplified texts about topics that interest us, and discuss them. 

This is not a course and we don’t follow a book, but we do some work on grammar and use online resources such as Duo Lingo and Passione Italiana, among others, in order to practise and build vocabulary in between sessions.  

We are a small, friendly group, we don’t worry about making mistakes - we see them as opportunities to learn more – and we would welcome some new members.