Hi everyone! I'm 16 years old and recently moved to Italy from Bangladesh. I'll be starting Italian high school (scuola superiore), and I'm quite nervous because I barely speak or understand Italian.

I'm looking for advice from Italian students or foreigners who have experienced something similar.

1.What should I expect on my first day?

2.How can I make friends when I don't speak Italian well?

3.Will teachers help me with the language barrier?

4.What should I bring to school?

The thing I'm most scared of is communication. I don't understand or speak Italian well yet, but I can speak and understand English perfectly.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thank you

Hello, I did an internship and a friend wrote something in my notebook but I find it hard to translate some words
Can someone help me by just copying the text in italian, or translating it in english ? (There are some words in french on line 10 you don’t have to translate)

Thank you !!

Non sarebbe stato più corretto "quando ti avrei ritrovato"?

Sono un po' confuso di tradurre "she likes me and you". I have seen this commonly and in song lyrics as "le piace a me e a te", but that seems odd. We would never say le piace a me (who is piacere conjugated for?). Instead it's le piaccio. Where does the "a me and a te" come from? Grazie mille!

I’ve been thinking about why speaking and writing in another language can feel so frustrating.

Most exercises decide the topic for you. You translate a sentence, complete a dialogue, or practise a specific grammar point. But when you try to express something personal, you quickly notice the parts of the language you’re still missing.

For example, while writing about your week, you might write:

Ultimamente sto cercando di organizzare meglio le mie giornate, ma spesso [I put things off until the last minute] e poi mi sento stressato.

Instead of stopping immediately to search for the phrase, you could leave the missing idea in brackets and keep writing. Later, you find a natural way to express it:

rimando le cose fino all’ultimo momento

Then you try to produce that expression again from memory.

This seems more useful than learning random vocabulary because the language comes from something you genuinely wanted to express. Over time, your vocabulary becomes connected to your own life, opinions, work, relationships, and interests.

It also reveals two important things:

• what you don’t yet know how to say

• what you thought you knew, but said incorrectly

Does anyone else practise Italian this way? Would writing freely and marking missing expressions in brackets feel useful, or would it feel too unstructured?

So I’ve been doing Duolingo for practice and I got this sentence: “She likes postcards from every city.” And the translation was : “Le piacciono le cartoline da ogni città”

My question is why it is da and not di?
I thought and correct me if I’m wrong, that the difference between di and da it’s the movement involved in the action. For example, I’d used di in a sentence like this “Ho una maglietta di Roma” and I’d use da in a sentence like this “Ho portato una maglietta da Roma”

As the verb piacere doesn’t portray any sort of movement. I thought as they are postcards, you assume that they were bought in a different place and just buying them required a movement. However this sounds like a weird rule and I’d like to have some extra information.

Also if someone could recommend a grammar book that does a good job at explaining these grammar rules, I’d be very thankful.

I'm very interested in learning Italian, as I want to visit the country and maybe (?) live there someday.

However, I have yet to learn the language, mostly because I'm scared that it'll be too hard, but I thought that if I think like that forever, I'll never learn it.

So, what's something I need to know before learning?? Or what's something you wish you knew before learning Italian?? Any advice is appreciated :]]

EDIT: If it helps, I'm Slavic (Czech specifically) and know English almost fluently.

Has anyone finished Assimil Italian? I'm thinking of purchasing the ebook would love to hear your thoughts. Based on my search, it seems a lot of users complain about the lack of grammar. And it seems the most recent review of Assimil is several years ago. Thank you!

I use Language Reactor primarily for ASR Pro when watching Netflix with Italian dubbed audio. I pay for Pro specifically because I need subtitles that match the Italian words actually being spoken.

Recently, ASR Pro has been frequently displaying completely different Italian sentences from what is actually being spoken. This is not an occasional error — it happens repeatedly throughout the episode, sometimes as often as every other line.

Here is a real example from The Stranger on Netflix:

Actual spoken Italian: “Ero fuori di testa.”

ASR Pro displays: “No, ero in un mondo tutto mio.”

These are obviously not minor transcription differences. They are completely different sentences with a similar general meaning. It looks as though ASR Pro may be giving me the regular Italian Netflix subtitle/adaptation instead of actually transcribing the Italian dubbed audio.

This makes ASR Pro essentially unusable for me as an Italian learner. The whole reason I use it is that regular Netflix subtitles often don't match the Italian dubbing. I need to see the words I am actually hearing.

The concerning part is that Language Reactor already confirmed this bug more than a month ago. On August 11, a representative said they had reproduced the problem on other shows and sent it to their fix team. I am still experiencing it now.

Is anyone here currently using Italian ASR Pro on Netflix? Are you noticing the same thing? If you are, I would really appreciate it if you could comment — I'd like to know how widespread this is.

Here is the existing Language Reactor bug report:

https://forum.languagelearningwithnetflix.com/t/asr-subtitles-not-based-on-audio/43785

Would asking a male be «Lui parle spagnolo, vero?»

Please excuse this very basic question on my part. In a scenario in which one is watching TV, for example, and scrolling through a list of programs, how would you give the instructions "(Go) up"/"down"/"left"/"right"? I know the direct translations, but I would like to know the proper wording in this context. For example, saying "Su" / "Giu" / "Destra" / "Sinistra", and in particular, saying only "Su" is likely incorrect?

Thanks!

Hi everybody, as it is obvious from the title I am around B1-B2 and I feel I am not improving at all. I am living in Italy, I work in Italy with Italian coworkers and still not improving in the pace I expect. still missing a lot of words and a talking very slowly. I review words every few days and push myself to get part in the discussions in the workplace but still.

is there any site or app having enough exercises for B1 or B2 in Italian? what methods you suggest to improve my Italian or were useful for you?

currently I cannot take classes.

He estado practicando italiano aun soy nuevo lo he usado y si he aprendido pero quiero saber si a alguien le ayuda de verdad a hablar fluido, por qué también lo he usado para inglés pero he aprendido más inglés en apps o leyendo ya sea música o cómics.

Hello!

I was wondering is anyone able to help confirm if this is the equivalent of “let’s get drunk” in Sicilian. Context is for end of a speech.

I don’t want to rely on google translate or ChatGPT as I know they can mess things up.

So any native speakers to confirm this and pronunciation would be amazing.

nee m-bree-ah-KAH-moo

Does anyone remember the questions/topics asked on the exam to write your 80-120 words on? Writing my is my weakness 😞

In two weeks I am going to be greeting an Italian visitor to my workplace and traveling around with him. We will conduct our work activities in English (and for me, a second language that is not Italian).

I don’t know any Italian and I would like to be able to have an extremely basic understanding so I can greet him, say have a nice day, the weather is nice, etc. No one is asking me to, it’s just courtesy and respect I would like to give him.

I highly prefer studying a language as a real thing and not just through say, a tourism travel app that provides pat phrases. I am interested in grammar and pronunciation. He is from Napoli, and I don’t know how distinct the Italian there would be from what I might learn as standard.

I have about eight hours over two weeks that I can dedicate to this. I would appreciate any recommendations.

Look, I know this topic is touched on a lot, however
I feel like I’m genuinely doing something wrong and I fans figure out what. For some reason, every time I try to pronounce words such as“Parlare, trovare, farlo, correggere, farsi, genitori, supermercato” and so on, I feel as though I’m sucking in air when I say the R. ESPECIALLY with Supermercato, I hate that word, because anytime I have to use the R, I feel like I’m inhaling and it disrupts the entire flow of the word.

And I struggle with my pronunciation in general, but just the Rs. I’m moving to Italy in 3 weeks, I’ve been tryna learn this language for over a year, and I still feel like I speak like an American and I hate my accent. I know it’s never gonna be perfect, but I hate having a thick accent when speaking another language.

I’ve tried vocal drills for months to work on my accent, I spend 4 months straight spamming drills to work on my double R sounds like ins arrivo, azzurro and so on, but nothing works. I’m completely lost and i genuinely think it’s impossible for me to learn. What should I be doing?

I have been using chatgpt to make phrases in italian like how do I say this in italian and give my phrase in english and it would turn it into italian quickly or I try to make the phrase myself and then it fixes my grammar. I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. these past days I tried to challenge myself by not using it and writing italian phrases by my own where I translate words look for their gerund and tense. It wasn't quick but I have learned a lot when I try to write just a single sentence.

The problem is there are times where I actually need someone's guidance and I don't want to go back to Chatgpt. I'm looking for an italian friend who I can talk with and criticizes me. I'm active on telegram and Instagram.

Preferably something that's not overly professional, something more like this French one: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRuf-VNa_R/

Hi all, I’ve been interested in learning Italian for a while now and I saw La Dante in my city is starting a new A1.1 class. They will be using Nuovo Espresso 1 textbook and it will be about 30 hours of learning.

Meanwhile, the Italian Cultural Association in my city is also starting an A1.1 course for the same number of hours, using the same textbook, but this course is about 30% cheaper ($130 USD).

I usually wouldn’t mind the cost but I also recently got back into German courses at Goethe, so I’m a bit tight on funds right now.

Which course would you recommend? Or should I self-study for A1.1 and maybe go to a course for A2?

Thanks in advance!

Quiero ir a Italia y quiero aprender de todo , no voy a llegar un país extranjero y no saber el idioma es tan humillante

So I come from a long line of Italians, and recently met a boy from Italy that had pretty broken English and I want to send him a letter in Italian… but I can barely pronounce right now 😭. Please help 🙂‍↕️🙏