Italian Language and Culture: Intermediate - Paperback

by Daniela Bartalesi-Graf (Author)

This book is designed to accompany the Italian online course Italian Language and Culture: Intermediate (2025-2026) on the edX platform (edX.org).

However, much of the content of this book, such as grammar charts, explanations and examples, as well as readings and texts of interviews with native speakers, will be of certain interest to any intermediate learner of Italian.

In this book you will find the following material accompanied by a table of contents and an index:

- Grammar explanations, examples and charts;
- Ciak! videos (texts in Italian and Italian with English translation);
- Letture (readings in Italian and Italian with English translation);
- Interviste (interviews in Italian and Italian with English translation);
- Vocabulary charts;
- Tour virtuale in quattro città italiane (Virtual tour to four Italian cities, in Italian and Italian with English translation);
- Tables of verbs and various grammatical structures.

You may be interested in the other two books in this series:

-Italian Language and Culture: Beginner
-Italian Language and Culture: Advanced

Author Biography

Daniela Bartalesi-Graf is a Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests are in Italian language pedagogy and 20th century Italian cultural studies. She is the author of three textbooks: -L'Italia dal fascismo ad oggi: percorsi paralleli nella storia, nella letteratura e nel cinema, at the intermediate-advanced level; -Voci dal Sud: A Journey to Southern Italy with Carlo Levi and his Christ Stopped at Eboli, at the advanced level; -Caleidoscopio, an Italian Language and Culture Intermediate Textbook, at the intermediate level. Daniela has also developed three Italian online courses for the edX platform.