Italy has one of the strongest economies, ranking eighth in the world in this respect. Learning this language opens up new career opportunities, especially in fields related to engineering products, textiles and clothing. Furthermore, the country's universities and educational institutions score well in the World University Ranking, excelling in areas such as finance, archeology, physics and the performing arts. Whether for professional or academic reasons, TECH has developed this Language Course for all those who want to acquire a more advanced level of Italian, with native teachers and a unique teaching methodology. 

Enroll now and get access to hundreds of exercises and practical support resources that will be essential during your learning" 

Italy has excelled in many fields for millennia. It is home to the best writers, the most emblematic gastronomic dishes in the world and, of course, some of the most renowned fashion houses in the industry today. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is a growing demand to learn Italian, which translates into better professional, academic and personal opportunities. With this B1 Italian Language Course, students will improve their linguistic skills to an intermediate level, being able to function with greater fluency and ease. As it is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, this Language Course serves as an excellent springboard to achieve the desired level certification. 

You will be able to take this course completely online and with the assistance of a native teacher of the language. 

You will pass the Level B1 Italian exam thanks to the comprehensive and extensive material support you will find in this program. 

It is proven that learning languages increases your intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks” 

José Antonio Marina.
Philosopher, writer, and teacher

A unique and stimulating experience 

Flexible and Tailored

Take the best language course from home, at your own pace and according to your availability and schedule. 

Acquire Skills and Abilities

With our method, you will practice and consolidate the skills required for this level. 

Networking

Join a large community and exchange knowledge and experiences with students from all over the world. 

This B1 Italian Language Course is designed to cover all the needs and abilities required by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). As a result, the student will obtain their certification in a satisfactory manner and will be able to continue their academic or professional career in countries where this language is spoken. 

Practice the skills and abilities required by the B1 CEFR with guarantees: more than 350 different practice exercises.

You will have an array of practical exercises at your disposal to practice your oral, written and comprehension skills in Italian" 

General Objectives

• Use the language being learned as a means of communication and personal expression, both in the classroom and in a wide range of face-to-face and virtual situations and on both concrete and abstract topics, including cultural ones
• Understand, interact and express themselves in these situations, orally and in writing, in an appropriate, reasonably flexible, precise and correct manner
• Describe the sociocultural aspects related to usual situations, as well as those related to one's own environment and use the appropriate social formulas, gestures, register and treatment in these situations
• Internalize the appropriate and necessary linguistic resources for the planned communicative activities, through functional and formal practice
• Encourage and diversify the use of strategies that streamline communication and facilitate learning 
• Manage tools to evaluate and improve one's own learning and use of the language 

Specific Objectives

Oral Comprehension

• Understand concrete everyday or work-related information, and identify both the general message and specific details as long as the speech is clearly articulated and with a normal accent 
• Understand the main ideas of clear, standard speech on everyday topics related to work, school or leisure time, including short narratives
• Generally follow the main ideas of a long discussion going on around them, provided that the discourse is clearly articulated at a standard language level 
• Understand, in general terms, simple and short speeches on everyday topics provided they are delivered with standard and clear pronunciation 
• Understand a lecture or talk that deals with their area of expertise, provided that the subject matter is familiar and the presentation is simple and clearly structured 
• Understand simple technical information, such as operating instructions for frequently used appliances, as well as follow detailed instructions 
• Understand the main ideas of radio news and other simpler recorded material dealing with everyday topics delivered relatively slowly and clearly
• Understand the information content of most recorded or broadcast material related to topics of personal interest with clear standard pronunciation 

Reading Comprehension

• Read simple factual texts on topics related to their field of expertise with a satisfactory level of comprehension 
  
• Understand the description of facts, feelings and wishes in personal letters well enough to correspond regularly with a foreign friend
  
• Find and understand relevant information in everyday written material, such as letters, catalogs, and short official documents
  
• Consult long texts in order to find the desired information, and to know how to gather information from different parts of a text or from different texts in order to perform a specific task 
  
• Recognize significant ideas from simple newspaper articles that deal with everyday issues 
  
• Identify the main conclusions in clearly argumentative texts. Recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented, though not necessarily in full detail 
  
• Understand simple, clearly written instructions related to an appliance 
  
• Understand many films where visuals and action drive much of the storyline and are articulated clearly and with a simple level of language 
  
• Capture the main ideas of television programs dealing with everyday topics when they are articulated relatively slowly and clearly 

Written Expression

• Write simple, cohesive texts on a range of everyday topics within their field of interest, linking a series of different short items in a linear sequence 
• Write simple and detailed descriptions of a range of everyday topics within their specialty 
• Write accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions in simple, structured texts  
• Write a description of a specific event, a recent trip, real or imagined, and narrate a story
• Write very brief reports in conventional format with information about common events and the reasons for certain actions 
• Write short and simple essays on topics of interest. Can summarize, communicate and offer their opinion with a certain degree of confidence on concrete facts relate

Oral Expression

• Carry out, with a reasonable degree of fluency, a simple description of a variety of topics that are of interest to them, presenting them as a linear sequence of elements 
• Give simple descriptions on a variety of common topics within your specialty  
• Give simple narratives or descriptions with a reasonable degree of fluency following a linear sequence of elements 
• Make detailed accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions
• Report the details of unpredictable events, such as, for example, an accident 
• Relate book or movie plots and describe your reactions to them 
• Describe dreams, hopes and ambitions 
• Describe real or imagined events. Tell stories 
• Provide brief rationales and explanations for opinions, plans and actions
• Develop arguments well enough so that they can be understood without difficulty most of the time
• Make short rehearsed statements on a relevant topic within their specialty, which are clearly intelligible despite being accompanied by an unmistakably foreign accent and intonation 
• Deliver a brief, prepared presentation on a topic within their specialty, with sufficient clarity to be followed without difficulty most of the time and whose main ideas are explained with reasonable accuracy. Can also answer supplemental questions, but may have to ask for repetition if spoken quickly 

Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Competence 

• Broaden and diversify the knowledge of sociocultural aspects related to situations, even those that are less usual and those of one's own professional field; to successfully adapt their behavior, reactions and linguistic performance to different situations 
• Use in a flexible way the language and formulas of the exchanges and texts that are handled, as well as the usual forms of treatment and expressions of courtesy, within a wide standard register of formality and informality, with degrees of distance or closeness
• Use expressions that give subtle disagreement or negative evaluations if the situation so requires
• Understand behaviors and values different from one's own that underlie common sociocultural traits, and recognize aspects and expressions that are offensive or taboo in the other culture

Linguistic Competence 

• Broaden and diversify the knowledge of sociocultural aspects related to situations, even those that are less usual and those of one's own professional field; to successfully adapt their behavior, reactions and linguistic performance to different situations 
• Use in a flexible way the language and formulas of the exchanges and texts that are handled, as well as the usual forms of treatment and expressions of courtesy, within a wide standard register of formality and informality, with degrees of distance or closeness
• Use expressions that nuance disagreement or negative evaluations if the situation so requires
• Understand behaviors and values different from one's own that underlie common sociocultural traits, and recognize aspects and expressions that are offensive or taboo in the other culture

To consolidate all these skills, you will have access to more than 500 lexical, vocabulary and sociocultural activities” 

Did you know?

Communicative competence is not merely limited to the knowledge and ability to use the linguistic code, but has other broader dimensions, which place it in direct relation with other competences such as information processing and digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competence, or cultural and artistic competence.

This implies a cultural immersion that is only possible to recreate in the online format through simulated scenarios, storytelling, videos and real situations.

Only TECH offers their students videos with the 250 specific situations required to master the CEFR B1.