SCO Level E

Beginners Italian Part 1

Campus
Newark Campus and Lincoln Campus
Start Date(s)
From September 2026
Duration
8 weeks (Part-time)

This course is for Beginners with little or no knowledge of the Italian language. The course will cover the first topics you may use in short conversations: greetings, giving information about yourself, and ordering food and drinks in a bar and a restaurant. The main emphasis will be on speaking.

There will be eight two-hour lessons. Each lesson will teach the basic language skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking, with particular emphasis on speaking. The course aims to understand and use simple colloquial Italian.

The units/lessons for this programme are as follows:

Pronunciation of Italian sounds, greetings – Information about self

Alphabet and nationality and place of residence

Use and understand numbers 0-10 – giving out telephone numbers

Numbers 11-100 and order food in a bar

Understand a menu in a restaurant

Get familiar with some basic Italian grammar topics: masculine/feminine nouns /articles/adjectives