Complete Italian course (for beginners - A1)

Join the second part of the A1 Italian course for English speakers, tackle the most used tense and memorize irregular verbs as you complete the final four fundamental lessons.

Learn to introduce yourself formally in Italian with time-of-day greetings and polite phrases. Ask for names, surnames, origins, and practice spelling, while distinguishing formal and informal forms.

Practice formal self introductions in Italian by asking and answering names, surnames, nationalities, birth dates, professions, and marital status through a translation exercise using the Lei form.

Learn how Italian indefinite articles work with masculine and feminine forms, their use before consonants or vowels, apostrophe rules, and the zero article.

Practice Italian indefinite articles and their masculine, feminine, and plural forms through varied examples and exercises.

Learn to describe physical appearance in Italian, including eye color, hair color and type, and the use of singular and plural forms with family examples.

Explore the 24 most used irregular verbs in the present tense of Italian, with conjugation patterns across io, tu, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro and practical usage notes.

Learn Italian family vocabulary through the Simpson family, including il fratello and la sorella, il papa and la mamma, nonno and nonna, zio and zia, and related relations.

Explore Italian possessives in depth, forming masculine and feminine singulars and plurals with or without the definite article, and learn that possessive adjectives and pronouns share the same forms.

Practice possessives in Italian through structured exercises using basic vocabulary like padre, bambino, santo, and other everyday terms.

Learn how to use Italian frequency adverbs such as always, usually, often, sometimes, and rarely, including their placement before verbs and in simple sentences.

Learn Italian modal verbs, including can, must, and to be able, note that they are irregular and study their conjugations and how the following infinitive forms are used.

Practice Italian modal verbs through practical phrases expressing ability, permission, obligation, and desire, using examples like can, could, must, would like, and have to.

Learn the 24 most used irregular verbs in the present tense and their conjugations in Italian, as part of the complete Italian course for beginners A1.

Practice italian basics through a dialogue about work and study, covering how I work and I study, adjectives after nouns, and daily routines like weekends and timetable expressions.

Practice translating the dialogue io studio e lavoro, exploring Italian employment phrases, restaurant work life, weekend shifts, university study, and expressing job satisfaction and frustration.

Follow a typical day from waking up to going to bed, including morning routines, breakfast, commuting by bus, work, lunch, dinner, a dog walk, evening activities, and bedtime rituals.

Explore the 24 most used irregular verbs in the present tense of Italian, presented through common phrases and practical examples for beginners.

Practice translation and dialogue to express how long you have been in Italy, including ten years, discuss Italian origin and family, and describe bilingual Italian–Spanish children.

Join a dialogue-led lesson for beginners that teaches the Italian expression in bocca al lupo, meaning good luck, and clarifies when to use it versus buona fortuna, highlighting a superstition.

Practice translating the Italian expression in bocca al lupo, meaning good luck, while learning how to pair places with the correct prepositions and apply them in everyday conversations.

Explore the 24 most used irregular verbs in the present tense, part four, with practical examples and notes on negation and present-tense forms for beginner Italian learners.

Master the 24 most used irregular present-tense verbs in Italian through practical exercises and everyday examples, building essential beginner grammar and vocabulary.

Learn the Italian progressive with stare + gerundio and practice forming continuous actions. Identify the three conjugations and the three irregular verbs used in practice for beginners.

Master the grammar 'stare + gerundio' through exercises, practicing everyday Italian phrases about travel, buying tickets, and learning Italian.

Learn to express your travel choices in Italian, using walking, bus, train, car, motorbike, and metro to say how you go to the station.

Explore the passato prossimo, its use with avere or essere as auxiliary verbs, and past participle agreement. Learn movement and change verbs that require essere and gendered endings.

Transform the sentences from the present tense to the passato prossimo, practicing Italian conjugation with examples like Roberta cantata molto bene and other present-to-past conversions.

Learn the most common irregular verbs in the passato prossimo and memorize their irregular past participles using infinitive and first person present tense examples.

Explore common, most frequent irregular verbs in the passato prossimo through targeted exercises, helping beginners master essential Italian past tense usage.

Master practical Italian dialogue for giving directions, locating the nearest pharmacy, and asking for help. Learn to describe distances, turns, and routes in everyday situations.

Practice Italian dialogue for asking for a nearby pharmacy and giving directions, including step by step instructions, traffic light cues, and gendered adjective forms like bello and bella.

Learn essential Italian shopping conversations through a supermarket dialogue, mastering phrases for asking for tomatoes, quantities, prices, and polite exchanges with basic pronouns.

Learn to order coffee and water at an Italian bar, choosing espresso or cafe americano, and use natural or sparkling water and informal pronouns in real dialogue.

Navigate a practical clothing store dialogue, selecting a striped red-and-white shirt, confirming size medium, checking the price of 30 euros, and noting it’s on sale with no discount.