FLI-LAN7315 - Beginning Italian

Course Description

Course Outline

• Hi, how are you?
• Good day, how are you? (Formal)

• Greetings and polite expressions
• Greetings in class
• Numbers 0 – 49
• Days of the week

• The Italian Language and Its Dialect

• View Points
• Downtown

• The city
• Information in the city

• In a touristic information office

• Verb To Be (Essere); There Is, There Are & Look
• The Noun
• The articles
• Interrogative Expressions

• What is there in a city

• Basic introductions
• Let’s talk together!

• Milan

• View points
• How is your roommate?

• Descriptions of people
• Information
• Geographic information

• The night of the party

• The adjective
• Good & Beautiful
• Verb To Have (Avere)
• Idiomatic expressions with To Have (Avere)

• Two roommates

• Writing a biographical profile
• Let’s talk together!

• Italian cities

• Today I study for my exams.  
• Information - The University

• Regular verbs with –are ending: present tense
• Prepositions
•  Adverbial prepositions
• Which? & What?

• A room for Mariella

• Write an e-mail
• Let's talk together

• University in Italy

• At the restaurant

• Meals and dishes

• At the bar

• Breakfast

• Regular verbs with –ere & -ire ending: present tense
• Verbs with –ire ending with suffix –isc
• The partitives; alcuni, qualche, un po’ di
• Much, A lot, Too much, A Little, All, Every

• A birthday party

• Structuring a good paragraph
• Let’s talk together

• Where do we eat?

Learner Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 

• Understand and produce the sounds of the Italian alphabet
• Acquire the basic notions of Italian spelling
• Acquire certain basic notions of Italian grammar and structure
• Acquire basic conversational skills
• Satisfy basic communicative needs
• Handle basic everyday situations while visiting an Italian speaking country or region

Notes

Visit Central Piedmont's Campus Store for required books: Official Central Piedmont Community College Bookstore Apparel, Merchandise & Gifts