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Intermediate Italian: describing people

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This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing listening skills and work on pronunciation.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1  Physical appearance
  • 1  Physical appearance
  • Describing people's faces
  • Describing physical characteristics
  • Understanding spoken physical descriptions
  • Forming physical descriptions
  • Practising describing people
  • Listening to descriptions
  • 2  Comparing
  • 2  Comparing
  • Comparing people using più … di or meno … di
  • Comparing two people using come or quanto
  • Practising comparing people
  • 3  Personality
  • 3  Personality
  • Listening to descriptions
  • Describing someone’s personality
  • Understanding written descriptions
  • Practising describing people
  • Useful adjectives for describing people
  • 4  Literary description
  • 4  Literary description
  • Natalia Ginzburg
  • Scan-reading a text
  • Checking meaning
  • Detailed reading
  • Opposites
  • Writing a description yourself
  • Conclusion
  • Take the next step
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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