🇮🇹 Italian Recommended Learning Material

Unlock, download and practice these phrasesets in the Lingophant app. Create an account in the app first.

Start with these four sets.

Practice one week, and then use the second part of basic phrases.

Afterwards, a teacher can help you create your own personalized phrase sets. But these are a perfect start, you’ll see.

Instructions:

1. Download the Lingophant app from the app store
2. Go to the sharing tab and create an account
3. Unlock the phrases with the links below. Then download them to your phrasebook.
4. Find 30 minutes every day (public transport? toilet?) to memorise phrases from the Practice tab. Tap the number at the top, or “practice” and you will try to memorize 12 phrases.

Start with our most recent video of Mariami speaking, and then you can continue with the EasyItalian channel 🙂 You can also book lessons with Mari, she has recorded the above phrases as well. See the section of recommended teachers.

We have three videos where we guide you through the process. Each is 30 minutes and should be watched in one session. Try to watch two videos per week.

Here’s the second video:

And the third video:

Here’s the full video (15 min)

Or you can play this audio and listen to it in the background with your phone locked.

More content with double subtitles

EasyItalian also has simple content (they get a bit boring after some time, but hey). Continue with them as long as you enjoy it. Here are four examples, watch once and then rewatch them again in the future 🙂

Language Introduction by LangFocus (warning: great but nerdy)

If you want a perfect pronunciation, watch these videos

Very detailed, you could e.g. (re)-watch in a few weeks whenever you decide to practice listening for 30 minutes.

Instructions for adding double subtitles to any YouTube video.
It doesn’t work on mobile.

1. Download / open Google Chrome
2. Install the Chrome extension “LanguageReactor”
3. Open one of the videos, and look for the new LR button under it.
4. Rewatch old videos, by collecting links in a note.

Here are two channels made for learners:

• A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
• An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico

Then there are channels made for native speakers, once you feel ready for it:

• Vogue Fashion has a getting ready with short profiles in Italian. Their channel has more content in Italian.
• Il Signor Franz, who review tech, travels and random stuff in Italian.
• And the news being summarized in 20m Italian videos in Breaking Italy.

That should be already enough material here to keep you busy for 12 weeks.

Watch them ideally on a laptop, using Google Chrome so you can use the Language Reactor extension.

Here’s a great textual summary of all the grammar by a Duolingo fansite: https://duome.eu/tips/en/it

It’s a great overview in case you start noticing grammar patterns from practicing phrases. This is the usual order: First memorize phrases. Then recognize patterns. Then understand patterns fully. (Science backs this up, it’s called the natural order theory).

Further in-depth Grammar videos (20+) for Italian can be found here on Lucrezia’s channel, they are each about one part of the language.

We can recommend lessons with Mari, a Georgian who grew up in Italy, likes music and food, and just has a nice energy. You can listen to her story above.

Easily buy a 5-lesson pack for 50€, and learn personalized phrases that you can practice afterwards on the app. Mari keeps 100% of the earnings.

If you’re interested, text us on WhatsApp, and we help you arrange your first lesson with her. +995 511 742 506