Introduction

In this course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, you will learn vocabulary relating to physical description and personality, and practice describing and comparing people. You will also find out about the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg and have the opportunity to read an extract from one of her novels. Listening to Italian speakers describing people will enable you to practice listening skills and improve your pronunciation.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• Describe people’s physical appearance and personality
• Make comparisons using come / Quanto and più di / meno di
• Use reading skills in Italian
• Imagine a character and write a short description of them.