Intermediate Italian: describing people

This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing listening skills and work on pronunciation.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1  Physical appearance
• 1  Physical appearance
• Describing people's faces
• Describing physical characteristics
• Understanding spoken physical descriptions
• Forming physical descriptions
• Practising describing people
• Listening to descriptions
• 2  Comparing
• 2  Comparing
• Comparing people using più … di or meno … di
• Comparing two people using come or quanto
• Practising comparing people
• 3  Personality
• 3  Personality
• Listening to descriptions
• Describing someone’s personality
• Understanding written descriptions
• Practising describing people
• Useful adjectives for describing people
• 4  Literary description
• 4  Literary description
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Scan-reading a text
• Checking meaning
• Detailed reading
• Opposites
• Writing a description yourself
• Conclusion
• Take the next step
• References
• Acknowledgements