Italian for Beginners

The Italian for Beginners Diploma Course takes you through the rules of pronunciation, numbers, accents, punctuation, and how to create basic sentences. You’ll learn how to greet people formally and informally, introduce yourself, and share where you live and where you come from.

You’ll go deep into Italian grammar - exploring the structure of sentences, nouns, pronouns, articles, adverbs, prepositions and adjectives. You’ll learn infinitive and present tenses, the two auxiliary Italian verbs – Essere and Avere – in both tenses, past and future tenses, commands and subjunctive verbs, the three Italian conjugations, negation, and regular and irregular verbs.

The course covers plenty of Italian designed to help you travel around the country with ease. You’ll be guided in asking for information, making purchases, ordering food, and talking about what you do.

This course:

• Includes a downloadable audio version of each module (10 in total + an introduction)
• Provides simple explanations, useful examples and effective activities
• Ensures understanding with assessment questions
• Helps you learn to read and write Italian
• Aids you in becoming capable of having a basic conversation in Italian

Whether you have never spoken or read a word of Italian or know a little but want to strengthen the foundations of your knowledge, the Italian for Beginners Diploma Course will help you get there.

Designed to get you to a basic, conversational level of spoken and written Italian, the course ensures you have a solid comprehension of the formation of the language, along with imparting practical Italian that will help you when visiting the country and conversing with Italian speakers. Additionally, it’ll also help you to better understand the people and culture of Italy.