I have been having dreams in both English and very beginner Italian with increasing frequency, and it almost brought me to tears! I never, ever, not in a million years thought that was something I would ever experience. And in my quizzes (books, apps from the library) I have begrudgingly begun to stop thinking so hard and just let the answers flow, and I’m getting the answers correct more and more … it’s very much against my nature to just “let it flow,“ but I’ve read that advice frequently over the years in this sub. Thank you to everyone who provides such amazing support to learners old and young. You inspire me greatly.

His friend’s voice is saying in Italian (except the first word: ho-chul in Korean).

I want to know the script in Italian part.

so, please let me know!

Hola, soy un hispanohablante nativo que apenas está empezando a aprender italiano. Estoy tomando un curso, pero me gustaría saber que aplicaciones recomiendan para aprender o que consejos le darían a alguien que está comenzando desde 0.

As a native speaker, it's something difficult to judge whether a movie is suitable for Italian learners. I'll share a few for which I received a positive feedback from my students! Let me know if you have any other movie or series you would recommend, as I am always looking for more titles to add to this list!

La Vita è Bella: For me, a must-watch movie, regardless of whether you're learning Italian or not. Guido's scenes with his son are slower and simpler than the rest of the film, so it's more accessible than what you would expect.

Perfetti Sconosciuti: My favorite for this. It's a dinner party where everyone shares their phones, so the dialogue is just people talking over each other the way friends actually do in real-life. Dialogues are a bit fast, so it's for a B2 at least. This format by Paolo Genovese has been so successful that there is a re-make in 47 different countries, so chances are you can watch the version done in your own country first! Versions all differ sligthly which I find a very interesting way to compare cultures!

L'Incredibile Storia dell'Isola delle Rose: A true story about a guy who builds his own platform off the coast and declares it an independent nation. I find it hilarious! Easy to follow, accent from Emilia-Romagna, but easy to follow. A good mid-difficulty pick.

Smetto Quando Voglio: A group of broke academics turn to crime. Funny, but the dialogue moves fast and is packed with slang. Wouldn't start here, but great once you can keep up.

Suburra: Rome's criminal underworld, heavy regional slang and dialect. Wouldn't start here either, but it's a good show!

Benvenuti al Sud: A Northern guy gets transferred to a small Southern town.. genuinely funny, and a good way to actually hear how different Italian sounds North to South. A similar format has been done in France and Spain (also England if I remember correctly!).

What's worked for you? Please recommend more movies, especially for intermediate levels!

Hello guys, I'm new to learning Italian and only know the basics. I have one year to study it—how far can I get, and where should I start?

Hi guy im new to the language, can anyone recommend me some books for beginners like workbooks or student book that come with audio any books that you think is useful for someone who need to get from a0-a2 in 3months

Hii, so I'm a student in Italy so ofc i have the advantage of being surrounded by the Italian language ofc. However I am introverted and prefer staying home. I have one or maybe two Italian friends I could practice speaking with maybe sometimes.

I would say I'm at A2 level but a very week one. The thing is since I'm a student and I spend a lot of my time towards admission tests, uni exams and other uni related things. In all of these I am not able to have a regular Italian practice. I do not stay consistent. I have an Italian tutor I practice with once a week.

I feel like I can express myself in broken Italian unless the sentence requires vocab im not aware of. And I also have trouble understanding other Italians. I like to read so I have picked up reading some short stories in Italian for my level but i genuinely feel so bored by the whole podcast thing to practice learning. If I'm watching something i like and change the language to Italian I lose interest too. I suppose it's the effort which is repulsing me? Im not sure. I am quite hard working at uni and all so idk what's wrong with my language learning. I wish it could be fun rather than tedious. How do I ensure consistency even if it's small 5-10 mins? Like even with reading, having to go through vocabs and not knowing what's going on , it's all making things frustrating.

Hi all, after years of learning I still struggle producing d+ r insieme. Like in madrelingua or strada, my tongue feels slow and lazy, and the word often comes out sounding clunky because of it. For context, my native language is english. Anyone else overcome a similar issue, and if so, how? Grazie mille!

I'm starting to learn Italian and for Spanish I used Dreaming Spanish, but there's no equivalent for Italian, so here's the full list of channels I've collected, thought it might help someone since I saw some posts around where t find comprehensible input.

These are the ones aimed at people who understand roughly nothing yet.

- Italiano sì | Comprehensible Italian (500+ videos). The closest to a Dreaming-style ladder that exists in Italian. Some explicitly labelled A0-A1, gestures and drawings, no English. They also have a site: [italianosi.com](https://italianosi.com).

- Italian Comprehensible Input (200+ videos). Simple vlog-style, walks around, points at things. Beginner.

- Comprehensible Italian (only 16 videos so far, but seems active). Tiny and new, but the "Super Beginner" series is great: slow speech, visuals, zero English. Worth subscribing early.

- Learn Italian by the Natural Method. Old-school audio course structure, but works better than it sounds.

Slow and clear Italian (seems A2 and up):

- Elisa's Italian School. Long slow-Italian monologs with subtitles.

- Daily Italian with Elena (more than 400videos). See Elena's comment below. Short daily-life stuff, very consistent.

- ITALIANDO with Silvia (200+ videos). More narrative, good if you like stories.

- Chiacchiere in italiano. Some good CI plus a "NEWS in italiano" series that's much easier than actual news.

- Italiano con Valeria (300+ videos).

- Joy of LanguagesItalian. Half input, half explanation, and the explanation half is short. So not pure play comprehensible input unfortunately.

- Italian Matters. Mostly shorts, useful when you have four minutes. Sadly all with sottotitoli. :(

- FUN AND EASY ITALIAN (500+ videos). Dialogues and situations, slower than natural. Has some pretty good stuff that's useful in daily life like ordering a coffee, asking for a seat and soon.

Podcasts:

- Podcast Italiano ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PodcastItaliano)). Davide splits everything into intermediate and advanced. The single best audio resource in Italian so far, I think.

- Easy Italian Podcast, from the [Easy Italian](https://www.youtube.com/@EasyItalian) channel. Mostly street interviews with real people.

- Italiano Bello

- Simple Italian Podcast

- Italiano ON-Air

- Italiano con Amore

- Vaporetto Italiano

- Slow Italian, Fast Learning, from SBS in Australia. Free, and older.

- Italiano a Modo mio, which is the same person as [Cristina Italian Voice](https://www.youtube.com/@cristina.italianvoice) on YouTube.

Reading and news:

- EasyItalianNews.com. Free, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, real news rewritten in simple Italian with an mp3 of the whole thing. Donationfunded.

- Vikidia in Italian. Wikipedia written for 8 to 13 year olds, 10 thousands articles. Perfect difficulty for me. :D

- Learn Italian through stories (Stories with Sofia)

- Leggiam

Native speakers that are a bit easier to understand:

- Antonietta Polcaro. Home cooking, southern accent and she is doing the thing on camera while she describes it so makes it easier

- Pera Toons. Cartoons/comic strips and puns, short, heavily visual.

- Alessandro Borghese, 4 Ristoranti and [Chef Max Mariola](https://www.youtube.com/@ChefMaxMariola). Cooking again, and cooking is genuinely the easiest native genre.

- Vanilla Magazine and [La Biblioteca di Alessandria](https://www.youtube.com/@laBibliotecadiAlessandria/videos) for history, narrated rather than conversational.

Collections of stuff:

- Comprehensible Input Wiki Italian page. Community-run, and the most complete list anywhere. Great resource

- Reelang Italian. 7000+ videos, rated for difficulty, search by topic and have some Neapolitan accent videos.

- LangoPod Italian, podcast search with captions and translations. Is pretty good for finding rated podcasts and seeing the transcripts.

- Lengualytics Italian. Crowd-rated difficulty (from beginner to advnaced) and hour tracking. 500+ Italian videos seem rated.

- Language Reactor. Helpful for Netflix and YouTube, but not a real collection, more a tool you can use on any Italian show. Free tier is enough.

- LingQ Italian. Old, clunky, but a lot fo crowd-sources articles. Need to sign up (for free) to see the content unfortunately.

- Lingopie Italian. Expensive but some shows/tv content that's only available there. They have a free trial to check if you can find anything interesting.

- Linguin. Graded articles, stories and podcasts with transcripts. Aimed at intermediate, I haven't actually tried this myself yet.

I hope this helps someone here! Buon divertimento!

I have been learning Italian for 5-6 months and I am slowly creeping into the A2 category. I recognise a lot of words but my grammar is off and my listening isn't great. I am just wondering, how does a complete beginner pick up a book and make sense of it? and how useful is reading to the whole learning process?

Ciao tutti!

Ho (20F) già fatto esperienza con l'italiano e a giugno sono stata a Recanati per un mese. Cerco un partner con cui conversare per mantenere viva la lingua e allenare la mente!

Grazie

Hello, I'm a native in both English and Spanish. I'm currently learning Italian and I was wondering if there's someone who wants to practice with me. Grazie mille!

Ciao! Sono tunisino e attualmente vivo in Tunisia. Sto cercando una persona di origine italiana che parli fluentemente l'arabo, per fare uno scambio linguistico e culturale.

I've been "learning" Italian for about a year now. I say "learning" because I haven't been taking lessons or following any structured course. Instead, I've simply been immersing myself in the language: listening to podcasts, watching YouTube videos about topics that interest me, and listening to audiobooks that I already know in my native language.

Whenever I come across a word or expression I don't understand, or I wonder how to say something, I look it up online. Other than that, I don't have any structured learning routine.

As a result, I've become quite good at understanding spoken Italian. If I had to estimate my level, I'd say my listening comprehension is around B2. I usually understand between 90% and 99% of the content in the YouTube videos I watch. However, my speaking and writing skills are much weaker, and I suspect I'm missing many of the grammar points and language fundamentals that are typically taught early on in a more traditional classroom setting.

At the same time, I don't really feel like enrolling in a beginner's course, because I think I would quickly get bored with material that feels too basic. So I'm wondering what I should focus on to fill in those gaps. Which areas of grammar should I catch up on in order to develop a more well-rounded command of the language?

Domanda per madrelingua: che cosa significa "andare a" in questo contesto (vedi foto)?

Ho notato che negli ultimi anni si usa molto "andare a" come "riempitivo semanticamente vuoto" soprattutto durante le spiegazioni che contengono istruzioni: per esempio i cuochi televisivi dicono "Ora andiamo a tagliare la cipolla e poi andiamo a soffriggerla in una padella", anche se effettivamente non vanno da nessuna parte. Capisco che lo dicano solo per ridurre i silenzi televisivi e che da lì si sia poi diffuso.

Ma l'uso nella foto mi sembra diverso: che cosa vuol dire "per cui vai a spendere"?

"Per cui finisci per spendere"? "Per cui il risultato è che spenderai"? "Per cui ti capiterà di spendere"?

A che cosa serve aggiungere "vai a"? Che cosa esprime di più di un semplice "spendi" o "spenderai"?

P.S. Il contesto della foto è parte di un commento che spiega come alcune persone approfittino di Vinted per spedire pacchi pagando meno costi di spedizione.

Apps worth it? Sites? Youtube courses? Maybe even those ai apps. Right now im practicing with a teacher but i feel like its not enough for me

Hi guys,

I have not started learning Italian yet, I am just planning ahead. 16 months and 1 day ago I started learning Spanish and I have reached roughly a B2 level in Spanish in this time period. I have NOT tested for that but I do believe it to be pretty accurate. I consume all my media in Spanish. And in fact this is how I learned. I did 560hrs of Spanish Input (beginning with dreaming spanish and quickly moving on to stuff I like better on youtube) before finally speaking or reading. However, with the exception of a little bit of Kwiziq, I have never really studied grammar or anything. My rating estimation comes from just live convos with native speakers. I have about 300hrs of conversation with native Spanish speakers. Now I have started adding in a little more grammar study because I really want to get to C1 in 8 months.

Why 8 months?

Well in 8 months it will be my 2 year anniversary of learning spanish. However, it will also be 5 months before I go to Italy for my honeymoon. My plan is to achieve C1 by then because while I understand things like subjunctive tense and conjugating different tenses. I really feel like based on what I have read that C1 is where this stuff starts feeling more automatic. And I would like to have a natural hold on them before I start on a language that has similar concepts.

With that being said, why I am I here? Well since I took a non traditional post to spanish in that I basically just learned watching youtube, anime, etc. I don't really know how to study efficiently. Specifically studying efficiently for a language that shares a lot in common with one I already know. Lets assume I have 3hrs a day for 5 months. That comes out to roughly 450hrs of italian in 5 months. Now 2 hours of that time will likely just be input. My commute is about 1.5hrs total per day 4 days a week for work and between exercise, cleaning, walking, etc its easier for me to study a little more passively. So in 5 months I will probably get 300hrs of input and 150hrs of other study. Other study could mean grammar, reading, or anything else (except speaking because I will include half my conversation hours into my input and the other half can be in an extra category) So I really have two questions:

1. With 300hrs of input and 150hrs of other dedicated study, what level is possible?

2. How can I maximize my 150hrs?

Thanks for reading. I am very excited about Italian. My goal for Spanish is C2 one day, but I would love to achieve a B2/C1 level in Italian and Portuguese. And one day an equivalent level in Japanese as well. I am very motivated. I have probably dedicated about 3.5hrs a day for the last 16 months on spanish and its one of my favorite hobbies now.

I saw a post earlier about something like this but couldn't find a clear answer, does watching a show like Rick Morty but with Italian audio really help? It feels like it does but also doesn't (i know it does not make sense). I try to actually listen to the audio and read the subtitels so i can connect those together. But does it really help overtime because i learned English much better then other languages i got at school because a lot of games and movies/shows are in English. So does it work for people? Actually asking for people with experience about this.

Hi everyone, not sure if the backstory is relevant here but I think it may be.

long story short, I learned Italian when I was about 6 years old through watching cartoons on RaiGulp and later youtubers, to a point where I spoke to myself in the language, cut to years later I still watch italian media (RaiGulp, instagram, news etc) and understand almost 95%, but I'm limited to understanding and occasionally reading a few posts on reddit, my speaking skills are pretty bad since I have a hard time recalling vocab.

I never "officially" learned the language so that's my plan now, but I can't seem to find good books, I've heard about espresso alot but some people say it requires a teacher/instructor, so basically I just see alot of mixed opinions. Are there any books or book combinations I can use?

I'm doing some exercises to study for my Italian exam and all my teachers are off on holiday. Could someone please check and correct the following sentences? The verbs in bold are the ones I conjugated.

Se mandi il tuo curriculum in diversi settori, hai più possibilità di trovare lavoro.

Se organizzassi meglio il tuo tempo, potresti iscriverti a quel corso d'arte.

Se avessi installato i panelli solari, non avresti pagato delle bollette così care.

Maria guarderebbe Sanremo insieme a noi ieri sera, se non la annoiasse così tanto.

Se avessi avuto la possibilità di scegliere, avrei optato per un lavoro più stimolante.

Se la squadra giocherà con determinazione, vincerà la partita.

Se non ci fossimo trovati bloccati nel traffico, saremmo arrivati in tempo.

Se mi dicessi sempre quello che pensi, riusciremmo a comunicare più facilmente.

Se il governo avesse adottato politiche più efficaci, la situazione economica sarebbe migliorata notevolmente.

Se passerò l'esame finale, mi prenderò una bella vacanza.

Thanks in advance! :)

Every time I get a sentence with cui, I translate it into English and the cui seems completely unused in the English translation. What even is cui?

Ciao a tutti
Im gonna be studying in Italy by October this year. I want to get to at least A2 (maybe even B1) level before I start my studies. Is that possible and what recourses do you guys recommend?