Enjoy Italian Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Course

Download or read book Enjoy Italian Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Course written by Sylvia Lymbery and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to have more meaningful conversations in Italian? Do you want to feel comfortable in a variety of situations?Using authentic conversations between native speakers as a basis, this course will help you to improve and build upon the language you already have so that you develop your skills to a level where you can enjoy talking and understand what is said. You will be introduced to more colloquial Italian so you will sound more natural when speaking and gain confidence.Is this course for me?If you already know some Italian and want to take it further, this is the course for you. It is a great refresher course, as well as being an easy way to build upon and improve your existing Italian. Taking you from a good intermediate level (lB2 of the Common European Framework), this course helps you to progress up to C1 by offering:-Workbook plus MP3 CD of audio files.-Carefully levelled and sequenced material - a solid path to build up your knowledge.-Quality listening and reading input - day-to-day conversations but also speeches, interviews and newspaper articles.-Fluency building - reach a level where you can discuss sophisticated ideas in Italian.Full of authentic texts and dialogues about complex subjects, this course covers a wide r ange of topics of the sort you will want to talk about when in Italy and teaches you the kind of everyday language and features of speech that will enable you to communicate with confidence and feel comfortable taking part in conversation with native speakers of Italian. The choice of material aims to give you something of the flavour of Italy today and each unit is based around a single theme with lively interviews and conversations on the accompanying recording. There are activities based on the interviews and texts to help you remember what you've learnt and put your knowledge into practice. The units are divided into sessions - to help you organize your learning time and break up the material into manageable chunks - and there are reminders throughout to refresh your memory of points you have learnt.Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.