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Complete Italian course (for beginners - A1)
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Complete Italian course (for beginners - A1)

Level 1
Created byStefano Rastelli
Last updated 9/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • introduce oneself informally and formally
  • 27 most frequent regular verbs and THE 24 most frequent irregular verbs
  • the most important tenses (present, stare+ gerundio and passato prossimo)
  • describe one's house, family
  • other fundamentals

Course content

3 sections • 59 lectures • 4h 59m total length

  • Introduce yourself (1)7:36
  • Introduce yourself (1) - Exercises3:05

    Practice introducing yourself in Italian by moving from first-person to third-person forms, using gendered adjectives like italiano and italiana. Build simple, name-based phrases about identity through guided exercises.

  • i numeri0:01
  • the numbers0:05
  • the three conjugations4:30
  • The three conjugations - Exercises3:58

    Practice endings for the three Italian conjugations through exercises and dialogue in the present tense, reinforcing speaking basics and comparing Italian with Spanish.

  • Most frequent regular verbs in ARE5:50

    Master the most frequent regular -are verbs in Italian, with examples for speak, travel, leave, watch, and look for in present tense, and note how endings vary by subject pronoun.

  • Most frequent regular verbs in ARE - Translation Exercise3:45

    Practice translating the most frequent regular -are verbs in Italian through a translation exercise, reinforcing everyday usage and basic sentence structure for beginners.

  • Introduce yourself (2)4:36
  • Introduce yourself (2) - Translation Exercise1:09
  • Writing A1: introduce yourself
  • Most frequent regular verbs in ERE6:10
  • Most frequent regular verbs in ERE - Translation Exercise4:23

    Practice the most frequent regular verbs in -ere through a translation exercise. Focus on pronouns, articles, and prepositions while using everyday actions like reading, writing, and ordering in the cafe.

  • The days of the week4:54
  • The days of the week - Translation Exercise3:43
  • Time expressions4:42
  • Time expressions - Translation Exercise7:01
  • Months and seasons2:15

    Learn to name the months and the four seasons in Italian and use correct prepositions with them, building basic vocabulary for everyday dates and seasons.

  • Definite articles7:57
  • Definite articles - Exercises3:03
  • Most frequent regular verbs in IRE2:58

    Learn the seven most frequent regular -ire verbs in Italian, with attention to word order and practical examples like hear, feel, live, open, dress, serve, and suffer.

  • Most frequent regular verbs in IRE - Translation Exercise2:19

Requirements

  • know the basics of the Italian alphabet

Description

Welcome to this complete Italian course for English speakers


I created this course thinking of 3 fundamental things:


1. The phrases, dialogues and words that I use in this course are useful, they are the words of a frequency list, that is, the list of words that are most used in a language in order of frequency.


2. I structured this course in 3 different types of classes:


Communication classes,

vocabulary classes and

essential grammar classes


The grammar rules are clear and explained in a simple way with clear examples and exercises.


3. The exercises are mainly active translation, English-Italian translations, I will say the sentences in English and you have to translate them into Italian.

You can see the sentences on the screen only after saying the phrases in Italian aloud,


There are some texts to write, that correspond to the writing parts of the level A1 of Italian certification exams. (CILS A1)


What I recommend is that you notice the mistakes you make, and if in one exercise you made too many mistakes, I recommend you do it again.


This type of exercise has many advantages: it is very useful for the brain to be fast in the active language, you will immediately notice the different structures that exist in Italian and English, it reduces the time of linguistic decoding, it gives you an immediate answer concerning your progress and this thing increases motivation. You can listen to the audio of these exercises in down time: by car, at the post office or just when you are going for a walk, I always do it when I learn a new language.

Who this course is for:

  • English speakers who want to learn Italian seriously
  • students interested in obtaining an official Italian certification in the future

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