FSI Italian FAST Course - Volume 1

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Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 01

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 02

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 03

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 04

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 05

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 06

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 07

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 08

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 09

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 10

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 11

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 12

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 13

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 14

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 15

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 16

Italian FAST - Volume 1 - Lesson 17

454 Pages of Free Lessons

455 Minutes of Free Audios

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The FSI Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consists of two volumes and thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying audio recordings. Designed for use with an Italian instructor, the course has as its main objective to enable students to develop language skills considered basic and useful in Italy. Instead of a structured, grammatically-sequenced set of lessons, the course stresses communication in everyday practical situations of a social, logistical and workplace nature.

Students are urged to use whatever language they have at their disposal without being unduly preoccupied with grammatical accuracy. They should make this effort even in situations in which they are exposed to practical language considerably above their level. They should remember that they must learn to cope with such language but not reproduce it.

The following steps are set out one by one for the sake of clarity. The order given is the recommended sequence for having students obtain the language skills and confidence they need to deal with in a given situation. In class, of course, things do not always go so smoothly--nor should they. The instructor is responsible for assessing student progress and attitudes throughout the lesson, and for making sensible adjustments whenever necessary.

You can find the other volume of the FSI Italian FAST course here: FSI - Italian FAST Course - Volume 2

Italian (About this sound italiano or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardised Italian and other regional languages. According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 59 million people in the EU (13% of the EU population), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million (3%). Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as mother language, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German- and French-speaking cantons. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in Istria County in Croatia. The Italian language adopted by the state after the unification of Italy is based on Tuscan, which beforehand was a language spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was also influenced by other Italian languages and by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.

Italian is spoken in: Italy

Italian is also called: Italiano

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