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Getting started with Italian 1
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This free course was first published in December 2020.

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Introduction

Course image: Image by 272447 from Pixabay

Introduction, Figure 1: (c) Konstantinos Papaioannou/Dreamstime.com

Week 1

Week 1, Activity 1, Glass of red wine: (c) Ljupco Smokovski/Dreamstime.com

Week 1, Activity 1, A pint of beer: (c) Anna Proudfoot

Week 1, Activity 1, Fruit juice: Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture – USDA

Week 1, Activity 1, Apertif in a glass with an olive: Rose-marie Henriksson/Dreamstime.com

Week 1, Activity 1, Small bottle of mineral water: MK74/Dreamstime.com

Week 1, Activity 1, Glass of white wine: Valetyn74/Dreamstime.com

Week 1, Activity 1, Cup of tea: Laurel Fan, available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cup_of_tea,_Scotland.jpg

Week 1, Activity 1, Cappuccino: (c) Nejron/Dreamtime.com

Week 1, Activity 1, Small cup of coffee: Alexsander Nakic/istockphoto.com

Week 1, Figure 1: Image by T Caesar from Pixabay

Week 1, Figure 2: Anna Proudfoot

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Week 1 quiz, Q2: Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Week 1 quiz, Q3: (C) Jazzbobrown

Week 1 quiz, Q4A: Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

Week 1 quiz, Q4B: Kobako, cleared under Creative Commons,Attribution-ShareALike 2.5 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2,5) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piadina.jpg

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Week 2

Week 2, Figure 1: Anna Proudfoot

Week 2, Figure 2: © Claudiu Marius Pascalina/Dreamstime.com

Week 2, Figure 3: Anna Proudfoot

Week 2, Figure 4: Anna Proudfoot

Week 2, Figure 5: © Konstantinos Papaioannou - Dreamstime.com

Week 2, Figure 6: Anna Proudfoot

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