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⏰ Time spent here also counts towards your streak.
Language competency consists of active vocabulary, but also passive vocabulary and natural pattern recognition. Train essential listening skills, understand grammar and morphing patterns.
Knowing Basic Phrases allows you to stay in the language instead of switching to English. Listening-Reading videos is a comfortable yet intense training of your listening skills. It also allows you to explore the country through videos.
If you want to really be comfortable, have lessons. What makes Lingophant unique is that you can create your 100% personalised vocabulary from conversations. 45 minutes per week with a friend or a teacher is already enough input for a constant stream of engaging sentences to practice between lessons. We recommend some teachers
📔 Basic Phrases
These ca. 170 phrases are the perfect point of departure for serious learners. They help you stay in the language, without needing to switch to English. And you internalize patterns.
Start with these four sets. Unlock them one-by-one in the app, and memorize them from the “Practice” tab.
Once you’re starting to know them, add the second part of basic phrases:
This is just to get you started. For personalized phrases, we recommend sessions of 45 minutes with a native speaker.
- Know 300 phrases and you can make jokes and impress people
- Know 600 phrases and you can hold basic conversations
- Know 1000 phrases and you start communicating effortlessly
And because of working with audio, you’ll get compliments on your pronunciation a lot. We promise!
🎧 Train your listening skills with proper documentaries
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We have selected enjoyable documentaries. You can watch them, listen to the language, build a natural intuition, and still
Some polyglots swear by this method, and I’ve met people that have done this for 30 minutes every day and built working proficiency in the language.
NDR Doku (1.55m subs)
NDR Doku (view channel) – Dokumentationen und Reportagen des Norddeutschen Rundfunks (NDR). Mehr Videos finden Sie auf https://www.ardmediathek.de/ndr/
Großauftrag für Traditionsziegelei aus Kehdingen | Die Nordreportage | NDR Doku (> 94k views)
Fußballprofi – Traum und Wirklichkeit | Doku | NDR | 45 Min (> 5.67m views)
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🎧 Train listening with weird popular YouTube videos
It’s like zapping TV through another linguistic and cultural universe. Watch what native speaker watch. We hope you find something interesting. Automatically created on <generated_at>.
DEUTSCHLAND IST AM ENDE (> 1.77m views) – channel: Dinge Erklärt – Kurzgesagt (> 2.63m subs)
Jetzt amtlich! Unsere Regierung verachtet die Deutschen! (> 234k views) – channel: Achtung, Reichelt! (> 562k subs)
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May 2026
Archive of a previous list of popular YouTube videos:
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April 2026
Archive of a previous list of popular YouTube videos:
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🎧 Train listening with weird popular YouTube channels
Watch what native speakers watch. There’s a wide range of channels, and we hope you find something interesting in them. There are strange channels here too, we hope you find something interesting.
🏎️ Tutto forze channel (car-tuning)
With these instructions you can turn any YouTube (or Netflix) video into a learning experience with double subtitles. It’s entertaining content made for native speakers, and now you can follow along while listening carefully and learning.
- Download / open Google Chrome
- Install the Chrome extension “LanguageReactor”
- Open one of the videos, and look for the new LR button in the bottom bar.
- You can also explore their content library.
- Rewatch old videos, by collecting links in a note.
It’s super useful and effective. Also support them with a subscription if you can 🙂
🌴 Italian with Lucrezia (travel vlog)
These channels are targeted and language learners, which might be nice or annoying depending on your personal preferences. They speak a bit slower and repeat things sometimes.
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
- A lady doing travel vlogs in various Italian places – Italian with Lucrezia
- An Alberto from Brescia who shows some of his life – Italiano Automatico
🤓 Il Signor Franz (travel, reviews technology, and shares about his life)
Check out this channel for some entertainment in Italian. Here are playlists about:
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
💅 Vogue Fashion with short profiles on models and fashion
Italy being the country of fashion, you might be wondering what the life of a model looks like. Watch some of their profiles and routines from the life of a model in Vogue.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
They’re short, between 4 and 6 minutes.
📰 Breaking Italy (news summarized in 20m videos)
Here’s a page that summarizes the news in Italian on the channel Breaking Italy. Learn about what’s happening in the world, but this time with an Italian vibe to it.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
- Tuning cars and scooters (3 videos).
- A vlog about traveling in Japan (10 videos). Lot’s of “mamma mia” and a bit of covid.
- Reviews, experiments, unboxing, more standard YouTube stuff (20 videos).
- And a series of 192 videos about traveling to various places.
🧑🏫 Language Introduction and Pronunciation
Language Introduction by LangFocus (warning: great but nerdy)
If you want a perfect pronunciation, watch these videos
🧑🏫 Grammar overview in 9 chapters
Below is an overview of the most important
While memorizing phrases, you’ll likely recognize patterns from grammar. In that case you can add a note / question to the card. And next time you are with a teacher, you can filter your phrasebook for those with grammar questions and get them answered.
To fix grammar mistakes, you can ask your teacher or friend to record corrections, or an example to remember that grammar pattern.
🧑🏫 Well-written handbook by a Duolingo fansite
Here’s a great textual summary of all the grammar by a Duolingo fansite: https://duome.eu/tips/en/it
🧑🏫 In-depth grammar videos by Lucrezia
Further in-depth Grammar videos (20+) for Italian can be found here on Lucrezia’s channel, they are each about one specific aspect of the language. Nice to watch if you have 15 minutes and don’t feel like memorizing.
🧑🏫 Book Lessons with Recommended Teachers
We can recommend lessons with Irene, a teacher who studied several languages at university, likes literature and cultural exchanges, and has a nice energy.
She has experience teaching with our app, so you’re ready to start.
Get 5$ when you spend 20$ or more. And we will also get some credits to find new teachers.
In general, recommend a trial lesson and then booking 5 lessons at once.
You can also find your own teacher. Or ask a friend for 45 minutes each week. Explain to them how to help you with this link. https://lingophant.com/for-teachers/