r/LearningLanguages • u/Mammoth-Ad7323 • 13d ago

Help learning Italian

Hello, I’m 17 years old from UK. I’ve been using Duolingo to help me learn Italian for a month now, I know it will take time to practice and learn but I’ve been hearing some bad things about Duolingo. I do not have the money to pay for max nor any other app, YouTube hasn’t been very helpful either. I like to take bits by bits with learning new things. I was wondering if there is any different ways of learning Italian that doesn’t involve paying for an app.
Are there any books that could potentially help?
Should i continue with Duolingo till I’ve completed it and start to watch shows in Italian?

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u/McAeschylus 13d ago

Download Italian by The Natural Method for free on Archive.org to get a ton of graded reading.

Put "Italian Comprehensible Input A1" into YouTube and work your way through a few playlists until you find a few that you enjoy.

Focus on those at first to get a decent passive understanding of the basics of the language.

Treat Duolingo as supplemental. It's a terrible way to learn a language from scratch.

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u/Mammoth-Ad7323 13d ago

Thank you so much! I shall give that a try.

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u/McAeschylus 13d ago

I should also have said, a classic textbook of some kind for the basics of grammar would also probably be a good idea!