Presenting, a new series of 5 Italian listening comprehension exercises at A1 (elementary) level!
This is the first, and a bit of an experiment. Hope you like it.
For those of you who’ve been with us for a while and are far, far too good for this level, think of it as a way to measure the progress you’ve made since you’ve been hanging out here.
But if you’re new to Italian, or to OnlineItalianClub.com, this will help you improve your Italian listening comprehension, an essential element of speaking (and understanding) the language.
What you have to do:
- Look at the details of Maria’s diary for the coming week. Identify what details are missing.
- Listen the first time (take it nice and easy, don’t panic!)
- Listen again, try and fill in the gaps
- Listen a third time if necessary…
- Visit our site and leave a comment with your answers… Compare yours with what others have got. (I’ll post the transcript next time, so you can check who was right!)
Ready?
In bocca al lupo!
(‘In the wolf’s mouth’ – that’s what Italians say instead of ‘Good luck’, a bit like ‘Break a leg’ for actors… The usual reply is ‘Crepi al lupo!)
L’agenda di Maria – Cosa fa Maria questa settimana? Completa aggiungendo le informazioni mancanti.
LUNEDI’
10:30 medico
GIOVEDI’
__:__ appuntamento con Paolo
MARTEDI’
11:00 _____________________
_____________________
VENERDI’
10:15 _____________________
_____________________
MERCOLEDI’
15:00 ______________________
______________________
SABATO
Riposo
You should see the audio plug-in here. If not, that’ll be because you’re reading this in an e-mail or on a mobile device. In which case, click this link to view this article on our website.
P.S.
Like this exercise?
So, why not share it with your friends who are learning Italian?
Copy and paste this link to your favorite social network, or e-mail it to your Italian class…
http://onlineitalianclub.com/a1-elementary-italian-listening-comprehension-exercise/
Hopefully other people will like it too!
P.P.S.
Was this way to easy for you?
So, here’s an idea to get more out of it. Do it as a dictation (listen as many times as you need to). Post your version in the comments box here and we’ll see just how good you are!!
Sergey says
Ciao a tutti!
Martedì alle 11.00 Maria deve passare l’esame di matematica.
Mercoledì pomeriggio deve andare al supermercato per comprare della frutta e del pane.
Giovedì alle 12.00 ha appuntamento con Paolo per pranzare insieme.
Venerdì mattina deve andare in banca.
Daniel says
Non hai provato la dettatura (dictation), Sergey??
Sergey says
Ciao Daniel!
Hai ragione, ho già fatto molti esercizi simili. Una mia amica italiana mi invia i file sonori dove lei legge ad alta voce i capitoli di un libro giallo. Io ascolto questi registrazioni e scrivo ciò che ho sentito e capito e poi le invio indietro per la correttura.
Daniel says
Sei fortunato di avere un’amica del genere, Sergey!
Sergey says
Sì, è vero! Grazie mille anche a te e al team del onlineitalianclub per i vostri esercizi eccellenti!
Victor Valda says
Le ringrazio per questa idea, me piace moltissimo perché fa lavorare la memoria e puo imparare e paticare l’italiano
Grazie mile
Daniel says
Prego, Victor. E benvenuto!
Daniel
John Thomson says
Martedi 11:00 l’esame di matematica
Mercoledi – 15:00 il supermercato
giovedi – 12:00 Paolo per pranzo
Venerdi la banca
John Thomson
Daniel says
I remember when you were a ‘principiante’, John.
We’re proud of you!!
Audry Silva says
Martedi: l’esame di matematica
Mercoledi: il supermercato per comprare fruta e del pani
Giovedi: 12:00
Venerdi: andare a la banca
Daniel says
Benvenuta, Audry!!
Daniel
Nina Rault says
Questa settimana Maria è molto impegnata. Lunedì mattina infatti deve andare dal medico alle 10.30. Per arrivare in tempo deve alzarsi presto.
Maria frequenta l’università e per questo studia molto. Infatti martedì mattina alle 11.00 ha l’esame di matematica.
Mercoledì pomeriggio invece deve andare al supermercato per compare della frutta e del pane.
Giovedì Maria incontra il suo amico Paolo alle 12.00 per pranzare insieme. Non si vedono da tanto tempo e Maria è molto felice di vederlo.
Venerdì mattina Maria deve andare in banca. La banca è molto vicina a casa sua, quindi Maria ci va sempre a piedi.
Finalmente Sabato Maria si riposa a casa. Non ha le sull’impegno. Maria è molto stanca perché questa settimana è stata davvero occupata.
A nice dictation, thank you. Just one little bit of the last part escapes me.
Daniel says
You did a good job, Nina. There’s a spelling mistake in ‘compare’, and as you say, there’s some confusion near the end (here, I think: Non ha le sull’impegno).
The transcript will be in the next post, along with the next task.
Tom Bushaw says
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9371037/Italian/A1%20L%27agenda%20di%20Maria.jpg
Daniel says
Use of technology or what, Tom!
Think that’s the first time anyone’s ever posted a link here.
Welcome, by the way…
Daniel
Karen says
martedì l’esame di matematica
mercoledì -al supermercato
giovedì -pranzo con Paolo
venerdì-mattina deve andare in banca
Good morning Daniel, loved this little exercise, I will not attempt to match Nina’s excellent Compito, Brava
The good thing about a gentle exercise is that you can get those little reminders like AL suoermercato, IN banca. I see you have had a little tidy up and cleared the comments from the other listening exercises so I missed your horror at the soffritto/sofferto debacle. I shouldn’t clutter up your site with chat. Maybe you could have a little chat forum box somewhere, in your spare time (only kidding) I will enjoy more of these , its nice to move back and forwards in the levels and not get too hung up and stressed. Its easy to let important basics slide while trying to grapple with some grammar you will rarely meet. We are getting a nice little community going here thanks to you all. Helps to keep us on track. I stopped ticking the box about notify follow up as made me sign up to wordpress or something each time. Thanks again
Daniel says
Hi Karen,
Always nice to hear from you…
My comment on your comment is here: http://onlineitalianclub.com/final-c1-advanced-italian-listening-with-transcript-2/#comments
You’re welcome, and encouraged, to write whatever and whenever you like here, and I don’t “tidy”, so don’t worry!
I try to reply to all the comments we get, too. As you say, it’s a nice little community, and it gives me pleasure to get to know people from around the world and follow their progress with Italian.
In the past we had a ‘proper forum’, but it was pretty neglected and filled up with spam regularly. Honestly, it wasn’t worth the work, for what people were getting out of it.
So, the current approach (which of course, is not set in stone) is to encourage people to comment on posts as they come out, two or three times a week.
It’s not ideal, but it does have the advantage of being simple. Just check the home page of the site, where the latest post is visible, and comment there. Never mind if it’s off topic.
Or you can continue a conversation started elsewhere.
To help people find the latest comments, and any ‘active’ conversations, there’s a box in the sidebar of the home page entitled ‘Join the Discussion’, which shows the most recent comments. Clicking on the latest ones will help you locate WHERE on the site things are happening.
Hope that helps, and like I said, feel absolutely free to contribute as often and wherever you please!
Daniel
Karen says
Thank you, you make us all feel welcome.
Merci says
1. esame di matematica
2. supermercato (frutta e pane)
3. 12:00
4. banca
Daniel says
Ciao Merci!
Benvenuta al OnlineItalianClub.com
Daniel
Karen says
I just had a thought which may or may not work in these excellent exercises. At the moment they are doing really well on vocabulary and grammar. My husband is a little behind me and finds it hard to pluck the vocabulary he wants (and incidentally often wants to say far too complex a sentence) which I am sure is driving him mad when we are with our Italian friends. At home he seems to strike every conversation with a stranger with football talk, and he did get some chat during the mondiale when we were over. There must be a lot of topics that make for good small talk, sports hobbies, films books. What he needs is enough vocabulary to be able to use in chat. We have got arbitro and morso for that biter who has gone to Barcelona, and he does watch the games in Italian (no choice really) Just a thought
Daniel says
Hi Karen,
Interesting that you say “often wants to say far too complex a sentence”. That’s a classic, for beginners or near-beginners, I’m afraid. It’s SO hard to adjust from your own language, in which you are competent and have decades of experience, to a foreign language, in which you may be able to say little or nothing.
There’s no easy solution, but in particular, there’s no easy lexical solution, given that everyone in this situation has different interests and different ideas to express.
My personal advice for anyone at the beginning with a new foreign language is to focus on listening intelligently, and replying to what the other person says, rather than trying to ‘lead’ the conversation onto topics that interest you.
A bit like when trying to chat someone up. You get a lot further by speaking less and listening more.
This is good advice, but of course, I’m the last to follow it!
Karen says
Good advice indeed