At B2, you engage with Italian at a sophisticated level. You can follow complex arguments, understand Italian media, and express yourself with nuance on abstract and cultural topics. This is the level where Italian stops feeling like a foreign language.

Study tips

Focus on register — the difference between spoken colloquial Italian and written formal Italian is significant. Learn collocations and fixed expressions; they mark the difference between correct Italian and natural Italian.

Grammar focus

Congiuntivo passato and imperfetto, periodo ipotetico (conditional sentences types I-III), advanced pronoun placement, passive with venire/andare, discourse connectors.