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Learn basic Italian in this 20-lesson online course, including practice exercises and tons of audio. In this gentle and friendly course, you’ll learn all the vocabulary and basic grammar you need to get by in typical every-day situations, and you’ll sharpen your pronunciation and listening comprehension. Each lesson is short and simple, with easy explanations, lots of audio, practical examples, and plenty of practice quizzes. Check out the sample lessons to try it out before you enroll!
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Lesson 1: Ciao! Hi! Greetings, courtesy expressions, and an introduction a few key basic grammar concepts.
- Lesson 2: Non capsico. I don’t understand. Survival expressions you’ll need to get by.
- Lesson 3: Di Dove sei? Where are you from? Questions, essere (to be), subject pronouns, negation with non (not).
- Lesson 4: Come si dice? How do you say it? Italian pronunciation and spelling.
- Lesson 5: Che cos’è? What is it? Basic objects, articles un, uno, una, un’ (a/an) and il, lo, la, l’ (the), introduction to gender and agreement.
- Lesson 6: Uno, due, tre. One, two, three. Numbers, plurals, article i, gli, le (the).
- Lesson 7: Ho fame! I’m hungry! Avere (to have), expressions with avere, basic structures.
- Lesson 8: La mia famiglia. My family. Family terms, possessives like il mio/la mia (my).
- Lesson 9: Contento o triste? Happy or sad? Descriptive words for people, adjective agreement and endings, nationalities.
- Lesson 10: Verde, bianco, rosso. Green, white, red. Descriptive words for things, colors, more adjective agreement, demonstratives questo, questa (this) and questi, queste (these).
- Lesson 11: Guardo la TV di sera. I watch TV in the evening. Basic verbs, –are verb conjugation, time expressions.
- Lesson 12: Che lavoro fai? What do you do for work? Jobs, expressions related to work, the verb fare (to do), expressions that use fare.
- Lesson 13: Voglio qualcosa da mangiare. I want something to eat. Food and eating vocabulary, the verbs mangiare (to eat) and bere (to drink), polite requests, volere (to want), avere bisogno di (to need).
- Lesson 14: Siamo a casa. We’re at home. Vocabulary for the home, the preposition in (in) and its contractions nel, nella, nello, nell’, etc., c’è (there is) and ci sono (there are).
- Lesson 15: Prendo il treno tutti i giorno. I take the train every day. Basic verbs, –ere conjugation, forms of molto (many, much) and tutto (all, every).
- Lesson 16: Dov’è la metropolitana? Where’s the subway? Vocabulary for around town, stores, shopping, andare (to go), the preposition a (to, at) and its contractions al, alla, allo, all’, etc., the preposition di (of) and its contractions del, della, dello, dell’, etc.
- Lesson 17: Quando finisci di lavorare? When do you finish working? More common verbs, –ire conjugation.
- Lesson 18: Che ore sono? What time is it? Time expressions, telling time, days, months, dates, brief introduction to the past tense.
- Lesson 19: Ho una domanda. I have a question. Question words and question formation, the demonstrative quello (that), the forms of quanto (how much/how many).
- Lesson 20: Non mi piace la pioggia. I don’t like rain. Weather expressions, the present continuous with stare, constructions with piacere (like, to please) and indirect object pronouns mi, ti, le, and so on.
