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Italian

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6 levels · 170 lessons published
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Buongiorno! — First Words at a Roman Bar

Bar San Calisto, Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere. 8am. The bar has been here since 1947. You walk in, stand at the counter, and speak Italian. The ritual of the Italian bar begins.

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The course

170 lessons across six levels. Level 1 is free forever, the whole of it; Savor+ opens the rest. Within a level, start anywhere.

Level 1

Basic

A125 lessons

Your first words: greeting someone, asking what things cost, finding the street you want, and enough food vocabulary to order without pointing.

Level 2

Conversational

A245 lessons

The past tense, and opinions. You start saying what happened and what you made of it — comparing two dishes, describing a wine, disagreeing without being rude.

Level 3

Intermediate

B125 lessons

Where the grammar turns real: the imperfect, the subjunctive, relative pronouns and the conditional. Enough machinery to tell a story properly and write your first review.

Level 4

Advanced

B225 lessons

Nuance and the professional register. Discourse markers, the art of concession and emphasis, the business lunch and the gala — and the literary tenses underneath them.

Level 5

Fluent

C125 lessons

Writing and argument. Food journalism, criticism, the memoir and the keynote, in the literary registers those are actually written in.

Level 6

Native

C225 lessons

Your own voice. Literary exegesis, scholarly prose, diplomatic protocol and the philosophical essay, ending on a synthesis that is yours.