Italian Language Course

This is a beginner-level Italian language course designed for students who have little or no prior Italian learning experience. Students are introduced to the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as to Italian culture.

An emphasis on pronunciation, vocabulary, gestures, and sentence patterns will establish strong communicative skills which students will be able to use in authentic contexts.

Students will also acquire the basic knowledge of grammar structures and practice them in real conversations and dialogues. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to carry on basic conversations in the target language as well as read and write sentences using the structures learned.

Students will be able to spell words in Italian, pronounce Italian words with accuracy, greet people, use expressions of politeness, state the day of the week, month and date, count to 100, introduce and describe themselves and others, talk about transportation, ask for directions and have conversations about places familiar to them, describe things.

Students will be able to communicate in the present tense, use the appropriate subject pronouns in formal and informal ways, and use simple prepositions “preposizioni semplici”, use the verbs “essere” and “avere” including some idiomatic expressions with “avere”, and use de?nite articles. Chapters “Preliminare”, 1, and 2 of the textbook will be covered.