Italian: F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Understand that Italian is spoken in a variety of forms within and outside of Italy
Elaborations
recognising that Italian is one of the most widely used languages among the many languages spoken in the Australian community
recognising that there is the standard language called ‘Italian’ as well as a number of different dialects spoken throughout Italy and the Italian diaspora, and that these may be used in hybrid ways
discussing the influence of English words on the Italian language and considering why word borrowing occurs, for example, English words incorporated into Italian (il tennis, i jeans, fare lo shopping, l’email) and Italian words incorporated into English (espresso, bellissimo)
identifying cognates, for example, nouns such as cioccolata, cinema, pera, parco and stazione; adjectives such as intelligente and interessante; and verbs such as arrivare, studiare, telefonare and visitare
