Build your essential Italian speaking framework in 16 focused lessons.
How it works
Exercises you missed and words you marked difficult return at growing intervals, so your effort goes exactly where it is needed rather than over what you already know.
Try it now
Three phrases from the course. Press play, repeat aloud, then press the slow button and repeat again.
Vorrei un caffè, per favore.
I would like a coffee, please.
IPA /vorˈrɛi un kafˈfɛ per faˈvore/
Say it vor-RAY oon kaf-FEH, pehr fah-VOH-reh
Vorrei is the polite way to ask for something — much better than voglio with strangers.
Come si arriva alla stazione?
How do you get to the station?
IPA /ˈkome si arˈriva ˈalla statsiˈone/
Say it KOH-meh see ar-REE-vah AL-lah stah-TSYOH-neh
Parlo un po' di italiano.
I speak a little Italian.
IPA /ˈparlo um pɔ di italˈjano/
Say it PAR-loh oon POH dee ee-tah-LYAH-noh
A great sentence for your very first conversation.
The roadmap
Learn the single most powerful pattern in Italian: the present-tense verb matrix. Say what you do, what you do not do, ask questions and talk about the past — from your very first lesson.
Master the verbs essere, fare and stare, and handle your first real conversations: greetings, introductions, names, nationalities and jobs.
Say what you want, what you know and what you like. The verbs volere, sapere and the mi piace pattern open the door to real opinions.
Talk about your family, say what belongs to you, tell the time and move between yesterday, today and tomorrow — including your first -ere and -ire past tenses.
Unlock all three regular verb families in the present tense, master spelling changes like gioco and giochi, replace nouns with lo, la, li and le, say ages with avere and count up to one thousand.
Learn andare and venire in the present, then unlock the second half of the Italian past: the passato prossimo with essere, where the ending changes to match who moved. Say where you are going, where you came from and where you have been.
Talk about your normal day in Italian: wake up, get up, wash, get dressed and go to bed. Master reflexive verbs with mi, ti, si, ci, vi, si, the -isc verbs capire, finire, preferire and pulire, and the everyday commands Alzati! and Sbrigati!
Describe places with c'è and ci sono, say what there is and is not, talk about frequency, and make adjectives agree with colours.
Say the days, months and seasons, give the date and your birthday, make plans for specific days, and say what is possible or permitted with potere, si può and bere. Add the reflexive past: mi sono svegliato.
Talk about breakfast, lunch and dinner, describe the weather like an Italian, and handle two tiny words with huge power: fa for 'ago' and tra/fra for 'in' a period of time.
Move around with a, in, da, di, con, senza and per, talk about people with tonic pronouns, and make requests with dare, dire and dimmi, dammi.
Describe people, places and things, then compare them: più... di, meno... di, meglio and peggio, with the vocabulary of appearance and quality.
Say what you think, agree and disagree politely, give reasons and results — and join short sentences into natural, connected speech about travel, holidays and the weather.
Learn the futuro semplice: one set of endings for every verb, eight irregular stems to learn by heart, and the time markers that let you talk about tomorrow, next week and next year — plans, promises, predictions and meetings.
Ask politely and fix problems in Italian: vorrei, mi piacerebbe and potrebbe, formal and informal requests, and the survival patterns you need in restaurants, hotels, stations, airports and pharmacies.
The grand review and final assessment: the whole verb system, twelve real-life scenarios, and a completion checklist that shows how far you have come.
Who it is for
Built on general principles of intensive pattern-based learning — independent and unaffiliated with any named method brand or television programme.
No account and no tracking. Your progress, favourites and review schedule are stored anonymously in this browser and can be exported or reset at any time.
FAQ
No. Lesson 1 assumes zero knowledge. You learn the verb system through one visual matrix and start building real sentences immediately.
No honest course can promise that. What you will have is a solid speaking framework: the core verb system, about 400 high-frequency words, over 300 practical phrases and the confidence to handle everyday situations.
Plan for 45–60 minutes per lesson, plus short review sessions. The spaced-review system brings back difficult items at the right moment, so ten focused minutes a day go a long way.
Every word and phrase can be played at normal and slow speed. If local recordings are installed you hear those; otherwise your browser's built-in Italian speech synthesis is used. The text, IPA and easy pronunciation are always visible either way.
No. Your progress, favourites and review queue are stored only in your own browser. You can export them as a JSON file and import them on another device.
No. It is an independent course that uses well-known, general principles of intensive language learning: pattern matrices, a restricted core vocabulary and constant speaking practice.
