Language Exchange

Whether the concept of a language exchange is new to you, or you’ve tried to start one before, this guide will help you have effective language exchanges and improve your conversation skills in your target language.

It’s 1985. The Bellport Evening Star, a weekly community paper headed by its sassy editor Vivian Allegra, covers both the humorous and serious issues that regularly erupt in this small village. When she agrees to host a teen exchange student from Catania for a year, Francesca, who descriptively discusses her ancient home city and is hilarious in her observations of American life and who teams up with Black student Keisha with her beautiful Broadway dancer aunt for the upcoming Step competition, life starts taking off. Actually it does for all of them. These are three strong women who in ...

In this book, our Italian-American couple traveling to Italy - Carla and Mauro Bianchi - will stop at the Exchange bank at the airport to exchange dollars for Euros. We will learn some facts about Italy through a cultural note; how to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers; role play how to exchange money, use the "Bancomat" (ATM), ask for the time formally and informally; reserve a table and call the operator. We will also learn useful phrases and vocabulary pertinent to these situations.