Coffee Break Italian – What you will learn
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
In this short episode, Mark outlines the structure of the Coffee Break Italian course. Season 1 is organised into four blocks of ten lessons:
- Lessons 1-10: you’ll be learning how to greet people, introduce yourself, talk about where you’re from, introduce your friends or members of your family, use Italian in basic travel situations like buying things, getting around and coping with language difficulties;
- Lessons 11-20: you’ll learn more travel language and will be able to order drinks and food, check into hotels, go shopping, ask for information and use public transport;
- Lessons 21-30: you’ll perfect your travel language, learn to deal with a visit to the doctor or pharmacy in Italy, use the phone, and also talk more about yourself, your job, and your hobbies and pastimes;
- Lessons 31-40: we’ll be recording these episodes in Italy and you’ll join us in a series of conversations putting all the language you’ve covered so far into practice and extending your vocabulary and understanding of Italian grammar.
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Coffee Break Italian launches with lesson 1 on Monday 26th January.
This season of Coffee Break Italian features a total of 40 episodes. If you'd like to benefit from lesson notes, bonus audio recordings and video versions of the lessons featuring 'synchronised video flashcards' to help you understand how the words and phrases are written, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Italian on the Coffee Break Academy.
Don't forget to follow Coffee Break Italian on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Italian. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Italian Facebook page here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One Jornal. This is Mark from Coffee Brick Italian and I'm here to tell you a little more |
| 0:09.0 | about the show. We're very excited to be launching Coffee Brick Italian very soon. In each |
| 0:15.0 | episode you can look forward to learning with me, with Francesca, our native speaker, |
| 0:19.9 | and Katie, who is the learner. The idea of including a learner in our shows has been very |
| 0:26.0 | popular in Coffee Brick Spanish, French, and German. And Katie, as our learner here in Coffee |
| 0:31.0 | Brick Italian, has experience of learning other languages. She'll be asking lots of interesting |
| 0:36.4 | questions which will help you learn more. Let's talk a little about what's going to be |
| 0:40.8 | included in this season of Coffee Brick Italian. It's 40 lessons long and we'll be delivering |
| 0:46.6 | those 40 lessons in blocks of 10 weeks or terms if you like. In the first block we'll |
| 0:52.7 | be covering things like greetings, introducing yourself, talking about where you live, |
| 0:57.8 | numbers, also some basic vocabulary for travelling in Italy, directions, language difficulties, |
| 1:04.7 | and paying for things. In the second block you'll take your travel language a bit further, |
| 1:10.4 | you'll learn to order drinks and food, check into a hotel, go shopping, tourist information |
| 1:16.0 | and use public transport. Then in our third block, lessons 21 to 30, we'll be dealing |
| 1:22.8 | with language for visiting the doctor, the pharmacy, using the phone in Italian, talking |
| 1:28.4 | about the weather, and also being able to give more personal information like your job, |
| 1:33.7 | your likes and dislikes, and learning how to describe people. In lessons 31 to 40, we'll |
| 1:40.4 | be heading off to Italy and you'll be joining us virtually. We'll be recapping and developing |
| 1:46.0 | all the topics covered by using real conversations recorded in Italy. This will give you the |
| 1:52.0 | chance to consolidate the language that you've covered already and to take it further |
| 1:56.7 | to understand more and to use the language in real situations. |
| 2:03.0 | Throughout the course, Francesca will be bringing us cultural insights to all things Italian |
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