Quattro Chiacchiere
Italian, the way Italians actually talk.
Level B2 – C1
Four lessons. Four students. One native teacher, and a real conversation in Italian from the first minute. We read, argue, laugh and dig into the language through texts that Italians actually read: Calvino and Barbero, the news, a piece from Internazionale, a debate about whether Italian cuisine even exists.
Everything here comes in fours
Lessons per cycle
One themed cycle every four weeks. Jump in at any point in the rotation.
Students, maximum
A group small enough that everyone actually speaks, every single lesson.
Skills, every cycle
Reading, vocabulary, grammar and listening, woven around one theme.
And you speak it.
Quattro Chiacchiere is a complete Italian course for advanced learners: reading, vocabulary, grammar and listening, woven together in one programme and taught entirely in Italian.
What makes it different is the group of no more than four and the fact that you speak from the first minute. Every four-lesson cycle takes a single theme and works it through all four skills, so what you study you put to use out loud the same lesson.
It is for B2 to C1 learners who want to keep building the language on every front: the demanding grammar, the real vocabulary and idioms, the listening at natural speed, and the conversation that makes all of it stick.
A rhythm that builds every week
Each four-lesson cycle moves through the same four angles, so every skill gets its turn around a single theme.
Reading
A real Italian text opens the cycle: literature, journalism or a short story, chosen to be worth talking about.
Vocabulary & idioms
The expressions, word families and shades of meaning that learners rarely meet in a course book, drawn from the reading.
Grammar that matters at B2+
Not the basics again: the advanced structures that quietly separate fluent speakers from very good ones.
Listening
Authentic Italian audio at natural speed, the kind made for Italians, then talked through together.
Twelve cycles, never the same conversation
You can join at any point in the rotation. Here is the kind of ground a few cycles cover.
Solleviamo Venezia!
The city, the lagoon and the future of a place the whole world thinks it owns. Reading, idioms with “su”, the gerund without “stare”, and the Constitution.
La cucina italiana non esiste (?)
A provocative essay on the myth of Italian food. Word formation, demonstratives, and the etiquette of the sales, “Diamoci del Lei”.
Favole al telefono
Calvino’s bite-sized stories as a way into nouns and their exceptions, “piacere” and verbs like it, and a listening on wealth and poverty.
Internazionale
Reading the magazine Italians read on the weekend: coordinating conjunctions, “bello come il sole”, and Barbero on Latin and gambling.
Cercando te, Charlie Brown
Relative pronouns and similar-but-different words, wrapped around a listening on “the most absurd deaths in history”.
Giochiamo con le parole
Aphorisms from a mysterious author, Italian adverbs, and a sharp listening on the new rich and the new poor.
…and more, every cycle. Enrolled students see the full programme and can preview selected lessons.
Simple to join, easy to keep going
Pick the cycle
Start whenever you like. Every four weeks a new themed cycle begins, and you can jump in at any point.
Meet on Zoom
One 60-minute lesson a week, live, in a group capped at four so everyone actually speaks.
Talk, all in Italian
Reading, vocabulary, grammar and listening, woven into a real discussion led by a native teacher.
Keep the materials
Texts, audio and notes stay in your members area, so you can review between lessons and cycles.
One subscription, four complete lessons a month
- Weekly 60-minute live lesson on Zoom
- Small group, maximum four students
- Entirely in Italian, B2 to C1
- Reading, vocabulary, grammar and listening every cycle
- All materials in your members area
- Cancel any time, join again any time
Not sure of your level? Take a free level check first.
Your Italian is ready for a real conversation
Bring your B2, leave with the fluency, the idioms and the confidence that only talking can build.
Live on Zoom with a native Italian teacher. Small groups, real texts, no stereotypes. A complete Italian programme for advanced learners, B2 to C1.