Overview
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, Slovenia and Croatia. There are about 64 million native speakers of Italian worldwide, another 3 million people speak it as a second language.
Course description
In this language course you will learn the four basic skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) in the context of major themes in Italian culture. By the end of the course you will be able to describe people, events and situations, both in the present and the past, and you will have acquired the necessary vocabulary to communicate about everyday situations.
Benefits
Why learn Italian
- Broaden your culture horizon-This beautiful language provides an infinite enrichment, both personally and culturally. It is the one which is most studied for culture and pleasure because of extraordinary richness and strength.
- For the love of Music and Movie-The Italian is known as the language of music (La lingua della musica) because of its use in musical terminology.
- Italy economy and “Made in Italy” reputation- Italy is the world leader in many fields such as culinary arts, interior design, fashion, robotics, graphic design, furniture design, manufacturing tools, shipbuilding, space engineering, construction machinery, and transportation equipment, etc.
- Scope of Italian language in India- Several International Italian companies like Banco, Fiat, Benetton, Gucci, Lloyd, Ferrari, Marconi and Pinnacle etc. that have set up their business in India are looking for those who are proficient in the Italian language in India. There are lots of Italian language specialist jobs in India.
- Italy is the world’s hub when it comes to fashion and design- Milan (Milano) is one of the fashion capital of the world. With big names such as Giorgio Armani, Versace and Gucci, Benetton, and Prada, to name but a few, Italy has it all! Knowledge will help to find employment at one of the world famous Italian fashion houses.
Learning outcomes
After this course, you’ll learn about
- How to communicate in a variety of social situations, such as introducing yourself, talking about daily activities, describing what you do for work, writing and reading simple texts, such as an e-mail, giving and getting directions, asking about the weather and telling time.
- Basic grammatical structures such as articles and nouns, adjectives, present and past tenses of regular and irregular verbs.
- Italian culture, including daily life, film, cuisine, universities and vacationing.
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 63
- Assessments Yes