B2
Italian B2: Fluent
The effort goes out of listening here. A talk, a discussion, a newspaper piece in your own field all get through without constant checking back.
Speaking brings a choice that was not there before: the same thing can now be put several ways, and they differ in how polite they sound, how certain, how formal.
Tenses and if-sentences8
The past
1The future
2If-sentences
5B2Third conditional: se avessi saputo« If I had known, I would have come » — the same shape, twice over.B2Conditions without se« Unless » already carries its negative — and so does a meno che non.B2Mixed conditionsA past condition with a consequence that is still going on.B2Wishes and regretsThere is no verb for « I wish » — a word does the work instead.B2Connectors instead of seFive of them, and only one takes the indicative.
Verbs: modals, si, subjunctive6
The passive
2The subjunctive (congiuntivo)
1Verb + infinitive
3Sentence structure4
Joining sentences
1Reported speech
3Politeness, style, fine points2
Fine points and style
2Word lists at level B2
Lists: 60 · words: 2755
- Structuring a text
- Arguing and objecting
- Precise adjectives
- Organising the work
- Business and the economy
- Law and the courts
- How a news story is made
- The state and its institutions
- Data, security and the network
- At the doctor’s and in hospital
- School, university, training
- Feelings, more precisely
- Building and property
- Planning the city and its traffic
- Energy and raw materials
- Psychology and learning
- History and sources
- Statistics and numbers
- Farming and food
- Trade and logistics
- Kitchen technique
- Biology and ecology
- Physics and forces
- Chemistry and materials
Reading texts at level B2
- Il paese dei nonni
- La trattoria di via Dante
- Il giorno dello sciopero
- All’ufficio oggetti smarriti
- Un tavolo per l’anniversario
- Un gatto in cortile
- Candidatura per un tirocinio
Sentences from this level’s topics
Dante nacque a Firenze nel milleduecentosessantacinque.Dante was born in Florence in 1265.
Quando avrete letto il contratto, firmate.When you have read the contract, sign it.
Stavo giusto per dirtelo.I was just about to tell you.
Il modulo viene compilato dal cliente.The form is filled in by the customer.