At the A2 level of Italian, learners progress from basic communication to managing more structured and detailed interactions in familiar contexts. This level builds on A1 foundations, enabling learners to express themselves more confidently and understand commonly used phrases and sentences. The main areas covered include:

Listening Skills

• Understanding phrases and expressions related to areas of immediate personal relevance, such as family, shopping, local geography, or work.
• Following simple conversations when people speak clearly and slowly, especially in predictable settings (e.g., markets, cafes, travel scenarios).

Speaking Skills

• Participating in short conversations about familiar topics using a wider range of phrases and vocabulary.
• Giving and asking for information about everyday routines, preferences, or activities.
• Expressing likes, dislikes, opinions, and describing past experiences briefly (e.g., holidays, weekends).

Reading Skills

• Reading and understanding short, simple texts, such as advertisements, brochures, emails, or personal letters.
• Extracting key information from timetables, menus, schedules, or instructions.

Writing Skills

• Writing simple, connected sentences to describe experiences, plans, or preferences.
• Composing brief informal messages, such as invitations or short emails, using appropriate language and structure.
• Filling out forms with more detailed personal information.

Grammar

• Verb Tenses:
  • Present tense of regular and irregular verbs.
  • Introduction to the passato prossimo for describing completed past actions (e.g., Ho mangiato una pizza).
  • Use of the imperfetto for habitual past actions or descriptions (e.g., Da bambino, giocavo sempre a calcio).
  • Future tense (futuro semplice) for talking about plans or predictions (e.g., Andrò in Italia).
• Reflexive Verbs: Understanding and using reflexive verbs (e.g., mi sveglio, si veste).
• Pronouns: Use of direct object pronouns (lo, la, li, le) and indirect object pronouns (mi, ti, gli, le).
• Comparatives and Superlatives: Forming comparisons (e.g., più grande di, meno caro di) and simple superlatives (e.g., il migliore, il più bello).
• Prepositions: Improved use of prepositional phrases (e.g., al bar, in centro, di mattina).
• Modal Verbs: Further practice with potere, dovere, and volere in different contexts.

Vocabulary

• Expanding vocabulary for common topics, including travel, health, shopping, weather, and leisure activities.
• Words and phrases for expressing emotions, preferences, and intentions.
• Basic workplace and academic vocabulary for routine interactions.

Cultural Awareness

• Recognizing differences in formal and informal language and understanding when to use each (e.g., Lei vs. tu).
• Learning about Italian festivals, traditions, and social customs.
• Awareness of regional differences in cuisine, dialects, and traditions.

At the A2 level, learners can handle simple and routine tasks that require basic exchanges of information. They can navigate common social situations and begin to feel more at ease in an Italian-speaking environment.

• Definite and indefinite articles
• Types of nouns
• Personal pronouns
• Qualitative adjectives
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
• Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
• Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
• Cardinal numbers
• Ordinary numbers: first, second, third etc
• Simple prepositions and recognition of the articulated prepositions
• Active conjugation of: essere e avere, modals verbs potere, dovere e volere (to be, to want, verbs, to be able to, to have to and to want)
• Regular verbs of the following modes and times– Indicative present form– Indicative past form– Infinitive–
• Polite way to talk