Italian for Intermediate: B1-B2

Want to level up your Italian? Here you go with this Italian Course for Intermediate learners!

Ciao! Io sono Marco, and I have been teaching Italian online since 2017, with over 1000 hours 1-to-1 classes and with several grammar courses. I condensed everything in a few courses. Benvenuti nel corso di Italiano di livello intermedio!

Italian for Intermediate: B1-B2 aims to explain many grammar topics (listed below), and clarify the complexity behind Italian grammar for the student with a decent basis. We will skip the entry-level topics, focusing immediately on a higher level. With many, many exercises that will allow to apply the new topics.

GOAL: at the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of verb tenses and most grammar topics. You will be able to understand and be understood, and to read a simple newspaper article.

Prerequisites:

You should have some basic understanding of Italian, since many topics will not be covered (they are in earlier courses). Some of the pre-requisites:

• Verb tenses: presente, passato prossimo, imperfetto, futuro, condizionale, infinito, gerundio
• How to conjugate a verb, including the most important irregular verbs
• Vocabulary (∼500 words)
• Adjectives and pronouns
• Prepositions and articles
• Basic undertanding of sentence structure: subject, objects

I cover all of these topics in my previous courses. If you realize you need to brush something up, check them out!

What you will learn

This course will be mostly in English (although including occasional references to other languages). I spoke Italian for maybe 10% of the total -slowly, to help you get used to the sound and structure of the language.
Here are some of the topics you will learn about:

Level B1

1. Relative pronouns (che, cui)
2. Double pronouns
3. Subjunctive (congiuntivo) presente e imperfetto, as well as how and when to use it
4. Periodo ipotetico (if-clause), the three types
5. Use of si impersonale and passivante
6. Passato remoto, futuro anteriore, condizionale passato

Level B2

1. Gli ultimi tempi dell’indicativo: futuro anteriore e trapassati
2. Congiuntivo presente e trapassato
3. Focus on adverbs with list
4. How to make any tense into a passive form
5. Concordanza (consecutio): how to mix and match tenses correctly in complex sentences.

This Italian Course for Intermediate covers most of the grammar you’ll ever need to know. Granted, there are some topics that are not included; but if you actually master everything in here, you are able to speak at an amazingly good level!

Pronto? Ci vediamo in classe!