Italian

Italian
Italiano
10.3M learners (updated since November 30th, 2023)
Information
Courses teaching Italian
Status	Available ✓
Checkpoint
Amount	4
Skills in each Checkpoint	• 1st: 10 • 2nd: 35 • 3rd: 50 • 4th: 66
Skills
Amount	66
Skills	See Skills
[Source]

Italian is a Romance language with over 70 million speakers. The Italian course for English speakers contains 66 skills, and 405 total lessons.

Grammar tips

See Grammar

Keyboard layouts and input methods

Main article: Guide to keyboard layouts and input methods

• United States-International layout
• United Kingdom Extended layout
• Mac OS X default layout
• Italian layout

External resources

General/multiple resources

• About.com | Italian - Italian Language Grammar, Pronunciation, and Verbs.
• Adesso Online - An Italian reference and lessons in German.
• iLUSS - A site dedicated to learning Italian online with free tests to verify your level of fluency in the Italian language.
• Italian Language Stack Exchange - question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Italian language.
• Noi parliamo italiano - A website in Italian that teaches the Italian language. A1 - C2
• Online Italian Club - Free weekly Italian lessons & exercises.
• ProgettoTrio.it - Completely free, Official online learning system of the Regione Toscana. Contains over 1,200 courses, audio podcasts, ect. You have register with the site, but all the material is free.
• Treccani - Italian-Italian encyclopedia, dictionary, and grammar reference.
• Word Reference Forums - Italian / English language forums.
• Anki Flashcards - Electronic flashcards based on spaced repetition methodology for learning new vocabulary.

Dictionaries

• Italian / English Visual Dictionary (free E-Book) - Bilingual Visual Dictionary
• Dizionario Italiano - Inglese | Repubblica.it - Online Italian - English dictionary
• Dizionario di Italiano | Repubblica.it - Online Italian only dictionary

Dictionaries - Italian\Italian

• Dizionario italiano De Mauro - Vocabolario online della lingua italiana
• DIZIONARIO ITALIANO Online - Gabrielli / Hoepli - Gratis ricerca di parole, significati e traduzioni - HOEPLI.it
• Dizionario Italiano - Sabatini-Colletti - Vocabolario Italiano - Corriere.it
• Dizionari di Italiano e Inglese - Garzanti - Vocabolario di Italiano e Inglese - Garzanti Linguistica
• Tuttavia: Sinonimi e contrari di tuttavia - Dizionario dei sinonimi e dei contrari - Corriere.it - Thesaurus

Courses

• Ripeti con me! - Italian audio course with a focus on conversation to practice listening and speaking.
• RaiEdu Italiano - Rai 15 unit Italian course.
• Online Italian tutoring courses - LanguaTalk - (paid) a well-designed platform for taking a tailored course of lessons 1-on-1 with native teachers.
• Italian tutoring online (Lingoci) - 1-on-1 tutoring on Skype, $19 to $25 per hour. Good ratings from students on Reviews.io.

Grammar references

• Amy Chambless's Italian Grammar Exercises - A good reference for Italian grammar.
• Arnix.it -  wide overview of Italian grammar.
• Linguistic Concepts useful for the Study of Italian - List of linguistic concepts.
• Modern Italian Grammar (free E-Book) - A practical guide to Italian Grammar
• Speakitalian.org - Free Italian Grammar Lessons and Exercises.
• Using Italian (free E-book) - Very thorough guide to contemporary Italian usage for Int. / Adv. students.
• Uvm.edu -  explanations of the basic structures of Italian grammar, as well as many exercises through which you can practice what you have learned.
• Italian Grammar Lessons -  Free online Italian grammar lessons in six-graduating levels.

Tools

• Context Reverso | Italiano - Context driven translator.
• Italian Verbs - Italian verbs conjugator (conjugation of more than 20,000 verbs).
• I-Verbi.it -  detailed conjugation tables for impersonal, reflexive impersonal, active, active reflexive, & passive
• schoLINGUA - Conjugation trainer - Practice over 10,000 Italian verbs.
• Toussaint's Italian Notebook - List of Italian Resources
• Free Italian Flashcards

Content in Italian

Reading

• News in Slow Italian - Read by a native speaker. With slow audio, transcript, translation, and comprehension test.
• Italian for my girlfriend - Italian flashcard Tumblr Blog
• The Italian Experiment - Italian childeren stories read by a native Italian speaker and translated into English. Italian lessons available too.
• Itascan - A site to read mangas in Italian for free online.
• La Gazzetta dello Sport - Italian Sport Website
• Le Iene - Italian Media website
• Liber Liber - Free ebooks and audiobooks in the public domain.
• Novelle Leggere  A site to read web novels and light novels in Italian for free online.
• Studentessa matta - The blog of a Duolingo member. The blog is translated to English one paragraph at a time, so it's quite easy to read for an English speaker learning Italian. She also organizes a few immersion trips to Italy per year.
• Sublearning - Movie subtitle flash card quiz in Italian and many other languages
• Wired | Italiano - Wired magazine in Italian.

Listening

• Italian Short Stories - Read by a native speaker. With slow audio, transcript, translation, and comprehension test.
• Audiocast.it - List of Italian podcasts.
• Audio Lingua - Italian - mp3 recordings.
• Conoscere l’italiano - Completely Free audio podcasts for learning Italian, produced by the Regione Toscana. You just need to create an account to access them.
• iloveitalianmovies.com - "The Ultimate Guide To Streaming Italian Cinema"
• Incontro Italiano - Free podcast for Learning Italian - Website includes transcripts and exercises
• Italia Sempre - 1850 italian songs with the original lyrics.
• Italiano ON-Air - podcast on Italian language with a new episode every week.
• Italinissima and Secondissima - two Italian music playlists on Spotify. Spotify is music streaming app and website.
• LearnIta Youtube channel - Youtube videos with usual phrases for different situations in everyday life.
• Learn Italian with Lucrezia - Youtube vlog about Italian language, culture, lifestyle, and everything that has to do with Italian life.
• Radio Statale - Conversation & Music Podcasts
• Slow Italian - News, up-to-the-minute site. Membership fee, but there is a huge resource of learning material for a very reasonable price
• Sull’Onda Dell’Italiano - University Radio Podcast regarding Italian Language topics.
• Video - with links to Italian and French music with lyrics.
• Fakemen - English songs translated into Italian.
• Radiofumetto - Dylan Dog | Radio 24 - Iconic Italian Comic, "Dylan Dog" read aloud
• Radio Italy Live
• Radio Italia
• Virgin Radio Italy - Radio & podcasts about current music trends.
• Ad Alta Voce -  Classics of literature read in Italian.