🇮🇹 Italian Recommended Learning Material

Here’s our selection of Italian 🇮🇹 content for language learners.

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Basic Phrases

How to get phrases from the cloud onto your phone.

Download the Lingophant app from the app store
Go to the sharing tab and create an account
Unlock the phrases with the links below. Then download them to your phrasebook.
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.

Here are basic phrase sets for beginners, recorded with us. A teacher later can help you create your own personalised phrase sets. But these are a great start:

“01 – Basic phrases Italian” – I shared a phrase set on the Lingophant App #lingophant

https://phrases.lingophant.com/1d384fb8-b068-40b9-ada0-3b82d623201a/01-basic-phrases-italian

“02 – Introductions (talking about yourself) Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/cae2ab12-f7f3-42d6-85f8-d035a693cb59/02-introductions-talking-about-yourself-italian

“03 – Useful reactions Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/e1999a19-9afd-4aa7-9f37-d30e60a9a823/03-useful-reactions-italian

“04 – Clarifications Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/6338287f-2781-48af-b841-cc7b793b312a/04-clarifications-italian

“05 – Learning languages Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/18ef02e0-3b03-4561-9bb8-1c7935dc7abf/05-learning-languages-italian

“06 – Interests, opinions, preferences Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/5b77020f-4b4a-42b1-961b-6fd9f7205c1e/06-interests-opinions-preferences-italian

“07 – Travel phrases Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/3bb25900-d63a-4088-a96a-5107fc470e4d/07-travel-phrases-italian

“08 – Smalltalk Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/c45049f0-ae53-42ca-a921-d7b797ddd58e/08-smalltalk-italian

“09 – Politeness Italian” – https://phrases.lingophant.com/b6c6e19b-f3c3-4c9c-b6c2-62e9d15186ce/09-politeness-italian

Start Your Listening Training

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.

Here’s an audio that you can listen to in the background without subtitles. Check your understanding after watching the video 5 times.

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 and rewatch, as discussed 🙂

Language Introduction and Pronunciation

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.

Listening-Reading Channels

Learn how to practice with YouTube videos that have two subtitles.

With the Google Chrome extension “LanguageReactor” installed you can create your own YouTube videos with two subtitles. And they pause playing and translate words when you hover your mouse over them.

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.

Grammar Content

Here’s a good summary for the grammar by a Duolingo fansite: https://duome.eu/tips/en/it

It’s a great read for the beginning if you have grammar questions.

Further Grammar lessons (20+) in Italian can be found here on Lucrezia’s channel, they are anecdotal about a part of the language.

Recommended Teachers

We can recommend lessons with Mari, a Georgian girl that 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 will get you in touch directly with her. +995 511 742 506