Learn to speak Italian at an intermediate level in just thirty easy lessons with this course. Pimsleur audio courses teach you to understand & speak the essential elements of a new language.

Don't worry about memorizing vocabulary lists, grammar rules, or even written homework. In each lesson, you will be hearing two native Italian speakers--plus have an expert teacher guiding you along in English.

Comprehensive Programs contain the basic core elements of the target language and are designed for those who want to develop language proficiency. Included are the grammatical structures and vocabulary items most-frequently used by native speakers in everyday situations. Provided is the necessary learning & practice for you to achieve an Intermediate-High proficiency level of spoken language communications skills. Three sets are available (Levels I, II, and III). Each level contains 30 lessons / 30 minutes each lesson. Together, these ninety lessons offer spoken-language proficiency in the most common languages.

Completion of The Comprehensive Pimsleur Courses will provide you with the following language skills:

• Ask and answer questions dealing with everyday situations
• Give and get information and directions
• Participate in casual conversations
• Provide basic information about yourself, your family, or associates
• Learn the Basic Core of the Language based on word frequency studies
• Avoid basic cultural errors
• Create with (and begin to think) in the new language
• Speak with proper pronunciation so that native-speakers will be able to understand what you say
• Express facts
• Give instructions
• Describe activities
• Deal with everyday topics and courtesy requirements
• Have the ability to re-combine the words that you learn into new phrases
• Be able to REMEMBER the words, phrases, and questions that you learn
• Know how to ask the kinds of questions that will further expand your knowledge and ability in the language
• Conjugate verbs correctly

Comprehensive Set II teaches the following language skills which represent a "Mid-Intermediate" proficiency on the ACTFL (American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages) spoken language proficiency scale. This course will provide the foundation skills for bilingual (spoken language) work requirements.

Learn how to:

• Communicate in more complicated situations.
• Talk about yourself and family members.
• Ask and answer questions and participate in simple conversations on topics beyond the most immediate needs; e.g., personal history and leisure time activities.
• Increase the length of your expressions and sentences.
• Initiate and create appropriate language forms.
• Incorporate proper pronunciation.
• Narrate and describe in the past, present and future tenses.

  Italian II (2nd Ed.) Comprehensive CDs

  $199.95