Master the basics and gain the ability to navigate through a new country or city
Fluenz Italian 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Italian-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple stock phrases to actually building sentences yourself. This is a serious introduction to the language.
Right from the start you'll begin working with powerful structures and key vocabulary so that you can build useful Italian sentences. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and making travel arrangements with confidence.
You'll build upon these skills through practice with key verbs and adjectives so that you can express your needs and desires in diverse situations with considerable detail. As you learn how to use possessives, pronouns, and form future tense sentences, you'll expand your range of communication while adding an important level of depth to your interactions. You'll become comfortable with contractions, pronunciation, and noun genders, making your speech more accurate and natural. Meanwhile, further work on location along with important commands will round out your introduction to the Italian language, leaving you well-prepared to dive into your experiences in the Italian-speaking world.
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Solidify your foundation and begin to acquire the tools for more serious engagement
Fluenz Italian 2 picks up where the first level leaves off, deepening your grasp of the fundamentals through new verb tenses and conjugations, an expanding vocabulary, and a broad range of other key parts of the language. By the end of Italian 2, you'll have begun to make substantial inroads into becoming a more serious Italian speaker, ideally preparing you for moving on to a more intermediate level.
You'll begin perfecting your verb conjugations in the very beginning, including past, present, future, and important irregular verbs. From there, you'll continue to build upon the structures learned in Italian 1, so that your journey through this second level leads to more complex and meaningful interactions in restaurants, travel agencies, stores, and with friends. You'll buy clothing from boutique stores and a cell phone for your trip; you'll enjoy local cuisine at restaurants, and visit museums with friends. And as your ability to express location—along with giving and understanding directions—grows, you'll find yourself thoroughly prepared for navigating any Italian-speaking city.
As with all Fluenz programs, these critical scenarios provide the setting through which your grasp of the language's fundamentals is steadily developed. By enhancing your ability with the central topics covered in the previous level (such as articles, pronouns, verbs, genders, and contractions), you'll solidify your foundation in the language. Meanwhile, the introduction of new structures and vocabulary (such as reflexive verbs, comparatives, and superlatives) combines with more serious responsibilities, such as going to the doctor and handling office tasks, preparing you to engage more seriously with the Italian-speaking world.
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Right from the start you'll begin working with powerful structures and key vocabulary so that you can build useful Italian sentences. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and making travel arrangements with confidence.
You'll build upon these skills through practice with key verbs and adjectives so that you can express your needs and desires in diverse situations with considerable detail. As you learn how to use possessives, pronouns, and form future tense sentences, you'll expand your range of communication while adding an important level of depth to your interactions. You'll become comfortable with contractions, pronunciation, and noun genders, making your speech more accurate and natural. Meanwhile, further work on location along with important commands will round out your introduction to the Italian language, leaving you well-prepared to dive into your experiences in the Italian-speaking world.
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Connect more deeply and confidently with the world around you
Fluenz Italian 3 dramatically expands your ability with the language. While Levels 1+2 establish the strongest possible foundation in the language, Level 3 builds upon this base into areas of substantial complexity that add an impressive layer of subtlety and sophistication to your speech. You also begin to develop the ability to connect with Italian speakers around more personal topics.
By the time we arrive at Level 3, the foundation has been set for a pivotal moment of growth. Building upon all that has been learned in the previous levels, your depth and range of communication will quickly broaden. As your skills develop with prepositional clauses and coloquial phrases, your conversations will become more fluid and natural. To provide more flexibility and depth, the third level delves further into the intricacies of Italian, such as article and possessive agreement, while introducing a range of regular and irregular verbs in the present, future, past, and progressive tenses. In the end, expanding knowledge of grammar and structure will combine with more real-world vocabulary to bring you to a impressive level of competency in Italian.
You'll use these skills at home and in the office, while talking to people about your studies and professional life, and in order to rent an apartment. You'll also shop, dine, and enjoy the entertainment that the great Italian cities and communities to offer. Throughout this practice, Italian 3 continues to explore the vibrant Italian culture. By the end of Fluenz Italian 3, you'll have taken a major step towards becoming a serious Italian speaker, capable of handling intricate conversations and complicated situations with confidence.
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