Course details

The course will be aimed at English speakers who want/need to approach the italian language for the first time. It will also be useful to those who have made one or more “false starts”, and need to rebuild their learning foundations before moving further.

List of key topics to be covered:

Conversational:

  • Progressive introduction of a basic Italian language in the teaching process
  • Various familiar situations: meeting people, restaurant, shop, travel, sking for the time, talking about the weather, etc...
  • Talking about hobbies and likings
  • Describe yourself and your family, your job, etc...

Related grammar coverage:

  • General problems of pronunciation for English speakers. Alphabet (quickly).
  • Articles (definite, indefinite), Genders
  • Auxiliary verbs (essere, avere)
  • Regular verbs: coniugazioni (-are, -ere, -ire), Indicativo Presente
  • Questo, quello (this, that); questions: chi, cosa, come, quando, perchè (who, what, how, when, why)
  • Numbers: Cardinali e Ordinali
  • Most used Irregular verbs (always Present Tense)
  • Eventual introduction to other tenses, subject to time availability
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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