italiano

Impara l'italiano

Speaking-first Italian: native voices, word-by-word pronunciation scores, and a tutor that meets you at zero.

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About Italian, honestly

FSI Category I — among the easiest for English speakers

~600–750 class hours to professional working proficiency · Travel-conversational in roughly 2–3 months of daily practice

What's genuinely hard

Double consonants change meaning (pala/palla, sete/sette) — the classic hurdle, drilled in minimal pairs
The rolled r
Verb endings carry the subject — the pronoun usually disappears

Tips

Italian is sung: keep vowels pure and open and your accent improves overnight
Spelling is phonetic — read lessons aloud from day one

Your first lessons

· Saluti — Greetings
· La cortesia — Please & thank you
· Presentarsi — Introducing yourself
· I numeri — Numbers & prices
…and 36 more across three levels

The full speech loop, in Italian

Free to start — the complete speaking experience is $19.95/month.

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