Ready to move beyond B2 and keep building your Italian? This advanced Italian course is ideal for learners who have completed our Intermediate Italian: B2 Conclusion course or have approximately 400 hours of prior study and wish to focus purely on developing confidence and fluency in spoken Italian rather than reading and writing.

Through interactive discussions, debates, role-plays, and conversation activities, you will build greater fluency and flexibility in spoken Italian towards an advanced level. Sessions explore a range of contemporary cultural, social, and professional themes, allowing you to express opinions, compare perspectives, and engage in more sustained and nuanced conversation. The course emphasises extending vocabulary and idiomatic expression, refining pronunciation and natural speech flow, and developing strategies for managing discussions, clarifying meaning, and adapting language across formal and informal contexts.

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: via Zoom

COURSE OUTLINE

• Participate in extended conversations and discussions on contemporary topics and themes
• Develop advanced fluency, spontaneity, and natural speech flow in Italian
• Expand vocabulary and idiomatic language for expressing opinions and viewpoints
• Refine pronunciation and listening through interactive speaking activities
• Explore cultural and social aspects of the Italian-speaking world through conversation

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate with greater fluency and confidence in extended conversations on a range of familiar and less familiar topics
2. Express and discuss opinions, experiences, and viewpoints using a wider range of vocabulary and natural spoken expressions
3. Follow and actively participate in group discussions and debates in Italian with increased ease