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Italian

Gain the confidence to start real conversations in Italian. No drills, no memorisation, no pressure.

Key facts:
5 courses

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26 hours

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Absolute beginner to advanced intermediate

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All-audio method

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Downloadable phrase lists

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Couple using a map in Italy

Your Italian learning path

 

Complete the full pathway to build your confidence and grow your mastery. If you are an absolute beginner, start with Foundation and progress at your own pace. A free, no obligation 20-minute lesson is available as a taster for every course.

 

Italian Foundation

Michel Thomas Foundation Italian

£80

Nine hours of structured learning takes you from the basic building blocks of the Italian language to creating your own sentences.

 

Italian is one of our original courses, taught by Michel Thomas himself. Listen as he teaches two students with no previous knowledge of the language and join in as the third student in Michel’s class, pausing and responding when prompted. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students’ real progression from absolute beginners to confident speakers – including their mistakes and Michel’s corrections. You’ll learn in small, manageable steps, building your ability to produce ever more complicated sentences.

 

You will start with common words and loan words, giving you a substantial starting vocabulary within your first hours of learning. By the end of the course, you will be confidently formulating sentences in the present, future and past tenses.

9 hoursBeginner levelMaster three tenses

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  • GBP: £80
  • USD: $100
  • EURO: €90
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Italian Foundation Plus

Michel Thomas Foundation Plus Italian

£40

This course takes the form of a one-to-one seminar with Michel Thomas. Picking up where Foundation ended, Michel introduces new vocabulary and supports you to build real-world conversational confidence.

 

With themed sessions on travel, dining, socialising and daily life, you’ll pick up tips to help your Italian feel and sound natural. The course covers the key everyday vocabulary. By the end of the two hours you will be able to express your opinions with ease, ask for and give directions and talk about future plans.

2 hoursAdvanced BeginnersExpand your vocab

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  • GBP: £40
  • USD: $50
  • EURO: €45
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Italian Intermediate

Michel Thomas Intermediate Italian

£70

Once you have mastered the foundations of Italian, this intermediate level course will guide you through more complex structures so you can improve your communication and bring more ease to your conversation.

 

Designed for anyone with a basic understanding of Italian, or anyone who has already completed Michel Thomas Foundation Italian and Foundation Plus Italian, this six-hour audio lesson will improve your conversational Italian as well as your command of grammar and vocabulary.

 

Listen to Michel Thomas as he teaches two language learners. You join in as the third learner. The courses are unscripted: you will hear the students’ progression in the studio from a basic grasp of Italian to confident speakers, and you will learn from their successes and their mistakes.

 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

 

– Make plans with Italian friends using the future tense

 

– Practice talking about your travel experiences using the past tense

 

– Express your opinions about everyday topics and give explanations

5 hoursIntermediateComplex grammar

 

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  • GBP: £70
  • USD: $90
  • EURO: €75
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Italian Vocabulary

Michel Thomas Italian Vocabulary

£60

Once you’ve mastered the structure of the Italian language, this course will increase your Italian vocabulary by over 1,000 words, with practical word groups for everyday situations.

 

Expand your vocabulary naturally, with no memorisation, word lists or drills. In this six-hour intermediate level audio course, you will listen to a language teacher and two native Italian speakers as they guide you through the process of acquiring new vocabulary and practicing your pronunciation.

 

In this course, you will:

 

– Learn over 1,000 new Italian words, verbs and everyday phrases

 

– Increase your vocabulary in manageable, enjoyable steps

 

– Improve your pronunciation by listening to native speakers and practicing yourself

 

Unlike most Italian vocabulary courses, there are no word lists to memorise. Instead, you will build your vocabulary by unlocking what you already know. The unique Michel Thomas method will boost your confidence and improve your ability to speak and understand Italian.

 

This course is taught by Paola Tite according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Paola Tite is a teacher of Italian, author of Italian language books and an editorial consultant. As a native speaker of Italian, Paola attended Michel Thomas’s original Italian workshops and recording sessions.

5 hoursIntermediatePractical vocabulary

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  • GBP: £60
  • USD: $75
  • EURO: €65
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Italian Conversation

Michel Thomas Fluent Italian Conversation

£60

Are you ready to improve your overall fluency in Italian? This course will improve your listening and conversational skills, expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar.

 

Ideal for anyone who has completed the Michel Thomas Intermediate Italian course, or anyone with an intermediate level mastery of the language, the course will give you more confidence in conversation and fast track your speaking skills.

 

Through authentic, lively conversations, you will be exposed to Italian as used by native speakers. Listen to colloquial language and learn conversation strategies that will help you to fit in and communicate with ease with fellow Italian speakers. The Michel Thomas approach means you’ll pick the language up naturally and listening to the dialogues will support your pronunciation and intonation to you express yourself clearly. The teacher includes cultural insights that will give you an insider’s perspective on the unspoken rules of the language and its usage.

 

This is the ideal language course for anyone who wants to accelerate their spoken language skills and engage naturally in everyday conversations.

 

This course is taught by Paola Tite according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Paola Tite is a teacher of Italian, author of Italian language books and an editorial consultant. As a native speaker of Italian, Paola attended Michel Thomas’s original Italian workshops and recording sessions.

5 hoursAdvanced intermediateNatural-sounding conversation

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  • GBP: £60
  • USD: $75
  • EURO: €65
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Complete Italian Bundle

Buy all five Italian courses in one package. Progress from beginner to confident speaker. Save £93 compared to buying each course separately.

Price: £217
(30% discount on every course in the bundle)

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  • GBP: £217
  • USD: $273
  • EURO: €238

Why learn Italian?

 

Present day Italian is a relatively new language. Italy became a nation in 1867, and even as recently as fifty years ago many Italians only spoke the dialect or language of their own region. Italy remains divided into 20 different regions, from Veneto (where Venice is located) in the North to Calabria in the South of Italy, known for its stunning national parks, mountains and breathtaking Calabrian coastline.

 

Spoken by 68 million people, Italian is the only official language of Italy even though 50% of Italians do also still speak a regional language, such as Neapolitan, Sicilian and even dialects of German in the North of Italy. Apart from in Italy itself, Italian speakers can be found in the Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland, and in a few areas of Slovenia and Croatia, and of course in all countries to which Italians have emigrated.

 

Unlike English, which has several different ways of pronouncing the same combination of letters, Italian pronunciation is easy because it is mostly phonetic. That means that once you know the rules you can’t really go wrong.

 

Italian is the most closely related language to Latin and as such is part of the Romance language family, under which Portuguese, French and Spanish also fall. This means that you will find many similarities between these languages, including parallels in vocabulary such as famiglia (family), ospedale (hospital) and pollo (chicken).

 

 

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