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Beginners Italian Course Outline

Beginners Italian Course Outline

This Open Group Italian Course is the ideal option for Complete Beginners Italian language students. In this course, you will study the most crucial vocabulary, expressions, and grammar rules, so you can start engaging with your course mates and your teacher in Italian as soon as possible. You will work together to complete elementary tasks, learn how to ask and answer personal questions, and role-play common scenarios (ordering at a restaurant, booking a stay in a hotel, etc.).

Lesson 1

You will learn how to use informal and formal greetings; to ask/answer “how are you?”; useful words and phrases: thank you, please, sorry, etc.; how to introduce yourself.

Lesson 2

You will learn nationalities and professions; how to introduce other people; useful classroom phrases (e.g. how do you say that, please?); numbers (0-30).

Lesson 3

You will learn to ask somebody’s age & say yours; to give your number and ask for somebody else’s; personal pronouns; important verbs: essere (to be), chiamarse (to be called), abitare (to live), avere (to have).

Lesson 4

You will learn to ask personal questions; to talk about people; adjectives; how to say where you are from; negative sentences; about Italian cities; the Italian alphabet.

Lesson 5

You will learn how to introduce other people; demonstrative pronouns; to ask questions with perché; how to give reasons for going to/living in Italy by using per; the indefinite article.

Lesson 6

You will learn how to ask and answer questions; interrogative pronouns: chi, che, dove, come, perché; vowels of the Italian alphabet; how to read accents and pronounce words.

Lesson 7

You will learn how to write a short email; Italian hand gestures and how to use them in conversation; places in town; various useful objects; how to book a room in a hotel.

Lesson 8

You will learn how to express your preferences; about accommodation in Italy; to ask for something and how much it costs; how to associate symbols with words in Italian; hotel amenities.

Lesson 9

You will learn numbers (30-100); to say the time; how to ask and say when shops open and close; Italian nouns and adjectives ending in o, a, e; the plurals of feminine and masculine nouns.

Lesson 10

You will learn definite articles: il, l’, la, i, le; how to conjugate the verbs essere (to be), avere (to have), and lavorare (to work); how to read and reply to an email; how to use the right intonation.

* You do not need to buy a textbook to complete your course. Your teacher will share their materials (excerpts from textbooks, audio files, videos, etc.) with you during the classes using screenshare. Your teacher may also recommend other textbooks and grammar books to help supplement or continue your studies, but Language Trainers bears no responsibility for your decision to make such a purchase.

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