Start your advanced Italian learning journey with our Advanced Italian: B2-C1 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Italian: B2 Conclusion course or have approximately 400 hours of prior study. This course helps you consolidate and extend your language skills providing a structured transition from upper-intermediate towards advanced Italian, focusing on increased linguistic accuracy, expressive range, and comprehension of more complex language. You will engage with a variety of authentic Italian materials and activities that promote advanced communication skills for social, cultural, academic, and professional contexts. Emphasis is placed on refining spoken interaction, developing more sophisticated written expression, and deepening understanding of cultural and societal themes relevant to the Italian-speaking world.

DELIVERY MODE

Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: Microsoft Teams

COURSE OUTLINE

• Continual development and extension of advanced B2 grammatical structures, with guided introduction to selected C1-level forms
• Development of advanced listening and reading skills using authentic Italian texts of increasing complexity
• Expansion of lexical range and idiomatic usage across a variety of registers and communicative contexts
• Structured practice in extended spoken interaction and written production, focusing on coherence, precision, and appropriateness
• Exploration of contemporary Italian cultural, social, and intellectual topics as a framework for language use

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Understand and analyse the main ideas and relevant details of extended spoken and written Italian texts, including texts that contain abstract concepts, implicit meaning, and varied viewpoints
2. Interact and express themselves with confidence and relative fluency in Italian, sustaining discussions and presentations on familiar and less familiar topics while demonstrating improved control of register and tone
3. Produce clear, well-organised spoken and written texts on complex subjects, showing increased lexical flexibility, grammatical accuracy, and effective use of connectors and discourse markers