Be Fluent in Italian
The Harvard, Cornell, and University of Chicago graduates who developed Fluenz were determined to create a program that conveyed the unique beauty of Italian while providing a step-by-step path through the language. By bringing the magic of a great teacher to the computer screen, Fluenz Italian makes reaching fluency in this storied language possible for every single learner.
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The Most Comprehensive Program to Learn Italian
Love Italian, Actually Learn It
As strong believers in the magic of Italian, the program designers moved beyond the cookie-cutter approach typical of computer language education: methods that boast a suspiciously simple way to learn and treat adults like children by emphasizing the association of words and pictures. Instead of the "fast-food" approach to Italian, Fluenz is all about taking learners step by step through the most beautiful language in the world.
Fluenz Italian brings the power of an amazing teacher to lead, challenge, and inspire adults and teens with a real love for the language. The application is ideal for those who need everyday conversation skills, as well as for those who want to establish a strong foundation for advanced learning.
An Inspirational Tutor Leads and Delights Learners
As with every language, there is a magical moment in the learning of Italian. It takes place that day on the streets of Rome when you can form a full sentence and actually understand the response. The Fluenz team has created a path through Italian specifically designed to lead English speakers to this special moment--and to the greater fluency that lies beyond it.
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An effective approach for English-Speakers
Italians expect their beautiful language to be spoken well, so this something the Fluenz program emphasizes from the very beginning. It is impossible to understand how Italian nouns must agree in gender and quantity (plural or singular) not only with articles, but also with adjectives and adverbs, without a clear explanation. Fluenz is the only interactive program offering tutor-led explanations in English that guide learners through the strategies necessary to reach fluency. This realistic, no-nonsense approach produces real results.
Contractions and the Rhythm of Italian
Italian contracts many words so that the beautiful rhythms of the language can be maintained. By offering clear strategies for understanding contractions, the Fluenz tutor once again makes a difference in helping learners.
Tailor-Made Approach Emphasizing Culture and Context
Just as importantly, the Fluenz tutor spends considerable time going over cultural issues, providing context and anecdotes that make the process meaningful. How can Italian be learned without at least some sense of Italian culture? No language is a mere dictionary, and serious language learning must go beyond the simple pairing of words and images.
Great One-On-One Teaching
Fluenz Italian is divided into sessions that are introduced and led by the on-screen tutor. After a realistic conversation between native Italian speakers, she returns to give a full tutorial on all the new words and structures to be learned in that session.
Engaging Workouts
Next comes a series of challenging workouts that provide an ideal training ground for developing the learner's reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities. Each session features a set of clear, common sense tools that set the program apart.
Relevant Learning, Real Communication
The Fluenz approach is based on getting learners to understand how to structure relevant sentences ("I need a train ticket"), rather than relying on the association of words and images to learn how to say things like "apple" and "orange," the more typical fare offered by programs that try to get you to learn like a child. Starting with clear explanations in English and following with extensive workouts, Fluenz steadily builds from essential structures like questions and commands ("How much is it?") and useful vocabulary (related to restaurants, transportation, directions, etc.) to more and more complex communication.
Great Audio CDs for Anytime, Anywhere Learning
The Magic of Learning: Audio CDs for Your Car or iPod
The Fluenz Italian Audio CDs are the ideal complement to the interactive program. The CDs were produced at the Fluenz Lab to provide engaging audio workouts that mirror the progress of the actual tutor-led software.
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The Fluenz Phrase Book Navigator
Fluenz Italian also comes with the Phrase Book Navigator, a useful quick-reference guide for travelers.
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What You Learn, Step By Step
1. Fluenz Won't Treat You Like a Kid
Because the Fluenz team believes in the passion and beauty of Italian, the program does not dwell on the simple pairing of images and words. Instead, the team behind the program makes sure learners understand and get to use the most important Italian constructions in a context that makes sense for English speakers. The Fluenz team believes that treating adults with intelligence, rather than like children, speeds up the learning process and makes fluency a real goal.
2. Building a Useful Foundation
Fluenz Italian begins by teaching how to form questions and statements that share the same word order in English and Italian (i.e. "The check, please," "Il conto, per favore," "I want this dish," "Io voglio questo piatto"). The Fluenz philosophy sees this as more practical than phrases such as "The apple is green," found in other programs, and uses these structures as the ideal elements for laying a strong foundation for advanced learning. After only the first four sessions, learners are already able to have meaningful conversations in a restaurant.
3. Describing Location and Where You're Going
The program then shifts to describing and asking about location. This allows users to learn the basics of how crucial verbs work while also advancing their vocabulary related to transportation and travel. Fluenz users gain a deep understanding of how questions and phrases such as "Where is the hotel?" and "I'm going to the museum" both work and are used in everyday life.
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4. Gain Confidence With Your Verbs and the Art of Italian
Italian verb forms change depending on whom they refer to, resulting in an infamous number of conjugations. Equally important, the rhythm of the language depends on understanding and mastering its structure, all of which is possible with the Fluenz tutor's step-by-step approach, common sense explanations, and many strategies conceived specifically for English speakers.
5. Diverse, Realistic Interactions
Fluenz believes that most people want to learn Italian in order to communicate in a city where the language is spoken and to lay the foundation for advanced learning. This is why the language is approached, explained, and practiced in a series of realistic scenarios in restaurants, train stations, stores, and other relevant locations. Learners get to work with the fundamental verbs and structures while practicing useful nouns for real, immediate communication.
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6. More Ways to Power Your Communication
Fluenz Italian identifies flexible structures that can be used in different situations, that make sense to English speakers, and that enhance the learner's growing command of the language.
7. Relevant Adjectives
Though often ignored, the ability to describe things is critical when learning a language. Plus, when traveling through a country, nothing is going to be more helpful than "bigger," "smaller," "less expensive," and those other adjectives that both make sense to English speakers and are easily used in forming sentences.
8. A Deep Foundation for Sophisticated Communication
Since the key to fluency in any language is being able to use the most common parts of speech, Fluenz covers a wide range of critical grammar issues. From pronouns and prepositions to word order and commands, you'll be able to correctly form complex sentences and express yourself with solid, confident Italian.
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9. Getting There, Faster
Giving and receiving directions is both a way to continue building the essential tools of Italian communication and a way to develop the skills anyone traveling will always need. Fluenz creates a path that gives English speakers complete control over the critical vocabulary and structures for asking questions, indicating directions, and explaining locations.
10. Easily Handle Numbers and Time
After thorough workouts enabling learners to talk about location with ease, Fluenz makes sure you master numbers and, therefore, time. Once time and location are joined, it becomes possible to form complex questions and statements in a variety of situations, such as planning trips or making appointments. Fluenz users ultimately gain control over a wide range of time-specific communication.
11. Confident Shopping and Negotiation
Throughout the program, your ability to interact in shopping situations is steadily improved. Fluenz works on the critical verb "to want" in the very beginning, and soon you learn how to ask about prices, make comparisons between different items, and express exactly what you're looking for. By the end of the program, you'll be able to handle shopping, price negotiations, and purchasing interactions with ease.
Ideal for Communicating Wherever People Speak Italian
Fluenz gives you the tools to communicate in all of the most important and common situations you're bound to face while in the Italian-speaking world. Whether you are traveling or learning, or need to talk to a client, student, or patient, Fluenz Italian 1+2 provides the strongest possible foundation.
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