
Practice introducing yourself in Italian by moving from first-person to third-person forms, using gendered adjectives like italiano and italiana. Build simple, name-based phrases about identity through guided exercises.
Explore the present tense conjugation of regular Italian verbs across three conjugations (-are, -ere, -ire). Learn matching endings for io, tu, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro and compare similarities and differences.
Practice endings for the three Italian conjugations through exercises and dialogue in the present tense, reinforcing speaking basics and comparing Italian with Spanish.
Master the most frequent regular -are verbs in Italian, with examples for speak, travel, leave, watch, and look for in present tense, and note how endings vary by subject pronoun.
Practice translating the most frequent regular -are verbs in Italian through a translation exercise, reinforcing everyday usage and basic sentence structure for beginners.
Introduce yourself in Italian through a translation exercise, using phrases like sono italiano. Apply basic conversational practice by translating phrases from the caption.
Practice the most frequent regular verbs in -ere through a translation exercise. Focus on pronouns, articles, and prepositions while using everyday actions like reading, writing, and ordering in the cafe.
Master Italian time expressions through translation exercises, covering days, weeks, months, and years, and phrases like I studied, I will study, and I saw you.
Learn to name the months and the four seasons in Italian and use correct prepositions with them, building basic vocabulary for everyday dates and seasons.
Practice Italian definite articles, distinguishing masculine and feminine forms and plural usage through exercises with examples like il mondo, la cosa, and il tempo.
Learn the seven most frequent regular -ire verbs in Italian, with attention to word order and practical examples like hear, feel, live, open, dress, serve, and suffer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Welcome to this complete Italian course for English speakers
I created this course thinking of 3 fundamental things:
1. The phrases, dialogues and words that I use in this course are useful, they are the words of a frequency list, that is, the list of words that are most used in a language in order of frequency.
2. I structured this course in 3 different types of classes:
Communication classes,
vocabulary classes and
essential grammar classes
The grammar rules are clear and explained in a simple way with clear examples and exercises.
3. The exercises are mainly active translation, English-Italian translations, I will say the sentences in English and you have to translate them into Italian.
You can see the sentences on the screen only after saying the phrases in Italian aloud,
There are some texts to write, that correspond to the writing parts of the level A1 of Italian certification exams. (CILS A1)
What I recommend is that you notice the mistakes you make, and if in one exercise you made too many mistakes, I recommend you do it again.
This type of exercise has many advantages: it is very useful for the brain to be fast in the active language, you will immediately notice the different structures that exist in Italian and English, it reduces the time of linguistic decoding, it gives you an immediate answer concerning your progress and this thing increases motivation. You can listen to the audio of these exercises in down time: by car, at the post office or just when you are going for a walk, I always do it when I learn a new language.