Delivery Method: Face-to-face scheduled sessions.

Venue: C64 Hugh Owen, Penglais Campus.

This course is aimed at students who have attended Beginners 2 or similar or have a basic knowledge of Italian. It will introduce students to contemporary Italian, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. 

Course Description

This course is aimed at students who have attended Beginners 2 or similar or have a basic knowledge of Italian. It will introduce students to contemporary Italian, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. 

The module will equip students with a very basic knowledge of the countries where Italian is spoken and encourage their curiosity about the language, the country, the people, their environment, society, traditions and culture. It will enable the student to reach a level of very basic competence in the four main areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The student will acquire basic language skills, to enable students to:

• Expand upon daily routines
• Describe houses, buildings and places
• Go to the cinema, theatre, events
• Talk about their life story
• Give reasons and discuss matters
• Complain about things
• Discuss sports
• Compare and contrast things