Italian 401

Description

Italian 401, in a high-intermediate course designed for learners ready to navigate the Italian professional landscape with confidence and sophistication. In this dynamic course, you’ll develop the linguistic tools essential for success in Italian-speaking work environments. Building on your solid foundation from previous levels, Italian 401 focuses on real-world professional communication skills that will serve you whether you’re planning a career move to Italy, conducting business with Italian partners, or simply enriching your command of the language in meaningful, practical ways. Using New Italian Espresso 2 as our guide, you’ll master the art of understanding job announcements, crafting compelling applications and CVs, and discussing workplace dynamics with nuance and clarity. You’ll learn to express hypotheses and conditions—crucial skills for negotiating, planning, and problem-solving in Italian—while expanding your vocabulary around employment, working conditions, and professional relationships. Beyond the workplace, you’ll also develop sophisticated social and narrative skills that are essential to authentic Italian communication. You’ll learn the cultural nuances of apologizing appropriately, how to begin and structure engaging stories, and the art of being an active, curious listener—skills that will deepen your personal connections and cultural fluency in any Italian-speaking context.

What You’ll Learn:

• Narrative Mastery: Learn to express suppositions and conditions, and how to begin a narration and its steps
• Emotional Expressions: Master ways to apologize and show interest in the narrator
• Grammar Structures: Review the Future tenses and their various uses. Start getting to know the first type of IF Clauses. Learn how to used conjunctions like pero`, quindi, mentre, durante, quando …
• Idiomatic Usage: Use expressions like “bisogna” (to need) and “metterci” (to take)
• Expressions: Understand how to use expressions like Lasciamo stare, or non sopporto quando… ! 

Course Benefits:

• Deepen Language Skills: Our lessons provide students with the time and space to truly build fluency—ideal for learners who want to strengthen their skills through in-depth practice and meaningful interaction.
• Authentic Expression: Develop natural-sounding Italian for real-life social situations
• Interactive and Engaging: Practice speaking with classmates and your instructor.
• Learn Anywhere, Anytime: All ONLINE classes are recorded, so if you have to miss a class, you will be given access to the material 24/7.

Your teacher is Sylvia

Class Curriculum