Have you mastered Italian grammar and already have a broad vocabulary? Would you like to perfect your language skills so you can work for an Italian company or study in Italian? In this course you’ll practice having discussions as the Italians do with idiomatic expressions and refined language. You’ll practice expressing complex thoughts and expressing anger, amazement and intentions. You’ll also read different kinds of texts (contemporary narrative, press articles and more) and become acquainted with regional variations of Italian and a number of ‘Latinisms’.

The main grammatical structures analyzed in this course are:
• Prefissi aggetivali e avverbiali
• Il futuro semplice e anteriore in frasi negative
• Il congiuntivo nelle dislocazioni
• Frasi scisse
• La concordanza dei tempi
• Il trapassato remoto
• Frasi implicite
• Usi del participio presente e passato

This course covers chapter 1-4 of ‘Nuovo Espresso 5’.