The Italian course for English speakers

Italian language Course for beginners - Learn Italian fast and easy - Italian up to intermediate - Corso d'italiano

What you'll learn

Through the dialogues you will become familiar with the language as it is actually spoken.
Repetition and memorization exercises will lead you to express yourself spontaneously in Italian.
You will assimilate the grammar relative to level A2, plus the subjunctive.
An illustrated pdf of each lesson allows you to study when you are offline.
This course is designed for English speakers and highlights the differences between the languages.

Requirements

Internet access.
No previous knowledge required.

Description

This course covers the different language skills: oral comprehension and expression, written expression. This course's particularity lies in the fact that the lessons are based on didactic material with specially created and realized animations. You will learn the language from dialogues between characters that you will be called upon to interpret yourself. The course is divided into six folders for a total of 30 lessons. Each lesson is accompanied by a downloadable audio file of each lesson and a downloadable pdf file illustrated with images of the dialogue. Some pdf files also contain additional lexicon.

Each lesson is also accompanied by two other pdf files for the written exercise and its correction.

At the end of the first five levels, you have a quiz with multiple-choice questions about the level's lessons. At the end of the last level, a quiz with more questions about the whole course.

The course is preceded by an introduction that guides you through your learning path.

Contents of the video course "Italian for you" by level.

Level 1 (Lessons 1 to 5) Introduce yourself with name, first name, origin, nationality.

Greetings. Conjugation of the verb essere, presentation of the three groups of verbs.

Articles.

The gender of nouns and adjectives.

To be on first-name terms and to speak in the third person.

Prepositions

Conjugation of the verbs venire, andare, volere.
The negative form.

Use of the subjunctive for the imperative of politeness.

Possessive adjectives, the absolute superlative of certain adjectives and adverbs.
The politeness conditional.
Alphabet and numbers


Level 2 (Lessons 6 to 10)

The verb avere.

Interrogative adjective che. The color adjectives and their particularities. Recapitulation of the articles.

The hours

Answer to thank you. Conjugation of volere.

Article contracted with the preposition con (with).Personal pronouns c.o.d and their place in the sentence with modal verbs.

Conjugation of fare and conjugation of the pronominal verb ricordarsi.

The pronoun ci.

Asking questions in Italian.

Partitive articles.

The pronoun ne.

Conjugation of dovere and sapere.

Conjugation of regular verbs in -ere: prendere (to take) The different uses of the preposition da.

To present oneself in society.

Adverbs of quantity.

Conjugation of conoscere.

Possessive adjectives and family ties.

Level 3 (lessons from 11 to 15 )

Possessive pronouns

Age (questions and answers) - always and never.

Frequency adverbs.

Adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.

Adverbs composed with there (là)

Face lexicon.

The interrogative pronouns chi (who) and che (what) the relative che (who and which).

Indicate possession

Situation in time: tra (in) fa (ago), entro (from here), da (since).

Lexicon on body parts.

Terminations of the subjunctive - examples of conjugation

Irregular verbs in the subjunctive.

The future tense, peculiarities of certain verbs and conjugation.

Conjugation of 16 irregular verbs in the future tense. Times of the day.


Level 4 (lessons from 16 to 20)

The gerund, the past tense plus the choice of the auxiliary.

Agreement of the past participle (basic rule).

Comparisons.

30 irregular past participles.

Lexicon on meals.

Fino a (until), sin da (from).

Indirect style: Personal pronouns, those after a preposition.

The negative imperative.

Use of the subjunctive for the imperative of politeness.

Asking for directions.

The place of complement personal pronouns in the sentence.

Level 5 (lessons from 21 to 25)

The indefinite adjectives nessuno, nessuna (no) e alcuni, alcune (some).non…alcuno (not… any).

C'è, ci sono (there is, there are).

Inversion of the subject: the undefined qualche (some), qualche cosa (something), qualche parte (somewhere).

The “imperfetto” tense, conjugation of essere, avere (to be, to have), regular verbs and three irregular verbs.

Agreement of the past participle with avere (have).

Imperative of the verbs of the three conjugations. Imperative of the reflexive verbs.

Bisognare, occorrere: two verbs to say it is necessary.

Parecchio: adjective, pronoun or adverb to express quantity.

Se (if) to introduce a hypothesis.

Atmospheric conditions and weather.

Absolute superlative and comparison terms.

Months and seasons.

Level 6 (lessons 21 to 25)

Personal pronouns: double pronouns, their order before or after the verb.

At the restaurant.

Ottimo: one of the superlatives of buono (good) Peggio: comparative of male (bad).

Indefinite pronouns niente and nessuno (nothing and nobody).

Passive voice. Da to introduce an agent complement.

Impersonal form.

Different uses of the subjunctive.

Irregular verbs in the subjunctive.

Place of the personal pronoun complement in a sentence with a modal verb. The relative superlative.

Two ways of indicating meals.

Bisogna and ci vuole: two ways of saying must, we need.

Who this course is for:

A1, A2 Italian language levels
Erasmus candidates
Beginners
university students
opera lovers
tourists traveling in Italy
people dealing with Italian companies
lovers of Italian culture, art and cuisine