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C1–C2 mastery

Lei/tu, collocations, RAI sheets, and assessed formal messages.

What to do this month

  1. Follow a weekly media sheet (RAI-style), then retell — assessed, not passive.
  2. Production: output workshop + assessed C1 tasks.
  3. Drill register, workplace pack, and collocations.
  4. Use DLI GLOSS Italian for denser practice; write one formal message a week and compare tone to a model.

A realistic weekly rhythm

  • Native media daily; structured register or GLOSS work twice a week.
  • One domain focus for the month so advanced vocabulary clusters instead of scattering.

Keep sessions short enough to finish. A twenty-five minute loop you repeat beats a two-hour Sunday binge you abandon. If a day collapses, restart with listening only — do not punish yourself with a backlog.

Italian-specific traps

  • Tu in municipal email.
  • Spanish calques in advanced writing.
  • Passive news without summaries.
  • Connector-poor paragraphs.

Media choice this month

RAI-style weekly sheets + retell.

Output task

Lei emails, meeting soft contrast, C1 tasks.

Italian C1 credibility is Lei control plus collocation glue — drill both twice weekly.

Lei control

Municipal/client email always Lei until invited.

Anti-Spanish bleed

False-friend sticky + Italian collocations.

RAI retell

Sheet → 90-word neutral summary → 60s retell.

Bridge

/guides/italian-c1-register-media/.

Italian C1 on this page

Lei control, anti-Spanish bleed, RAI-style retells, collocation glue.

Gentile Ufficio,
scrivo in merito alla domanda di permesso. Le sarei grato se potesse comunicarmi lo stato della pratica e i tempi previsti.
Cordiali saluti

Academic course: Italian academic writing. Guide: Italian C1.

A solid practice day

Do three things: listen to or read something and retell it in your own words; write or speak one real-world task and compare it with a model; run a short register or collocation drill. Score yourself on task completion, register, discourse markers, and control. Under 4 out of 8? Repeat the same brief before making it harder. Keep useful phrases in a notebook by situation — emails, meetings, complaints — so the drills show up in messages you actually send.

Deep guide: full Italian C1–C2 mastery essay · graded→native bridge · academic course .

When Spanish bleeds in, keep a one-page false-friend sticky and rewrite one paragraph daily without those traps. When Lei slips, rewrite the email opening before anything else. When listening feels fake, use the fifteen-minute listen guide and retell out loud. When speaking stalls, book a short tutor session even if the grammar still feels messy.

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