# Introduction

In this free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, you will learn vocabulary relating to physical description and personality, and practise describing and comparing people. You will also find out about the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg and have the opportunity to read an extract from one of her novels. Listening to Italian speakers describing people will enable you to practise listening skills and improve your pronunciation.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L150 Intermediate Italian: Vivace.

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OpenLearn - Intermediate Italian: describing people
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