Italian lessons
Explore 100 free Italian lessons from A1 to B2. Learn vocabulary, verb forms, and grammar through complete examples and recall practice.
- Colors — A1 vocabulary: Describe familiar objects while matching color endings to gender and number.
- Numbers 0–100 — A1 vocabulary: Use number blocks for ages, prices, addresses, and phone numbers.
- Family — A1 vocabulary: Introduce relatives with possessives and the special singular-family article rule.
- Kitchen basics — A1 vocabulary: Learn tools with their gender and place them in a simple kitchen scene.
- Everyday food — A1 vocabulary: Organize basic foods into meals and preferences.
- Drinks and café orders — A1 vocabulary: Order politely with vorrei and the right article or container.
- Rooms at home — A1 vocabulary: Locate activities with in and articulated prepositions.
- Clothes — A1 vocabulary: Describe what someone wears with indossare and full agreement.
- The body — A1 vocabulary: Name body parts and use the common avere + pain construction.
- Weather — A1 vocabulary: Use fa, c’è, and impersonal verbs for different conditions.
- Days of the week — A1 vocabulary: Use weekdays with or without an article to distinguish one day from a habit.
- Months and seasons — A1 vocabulary: Place events in months with a and seasons with in or d’estate/d’inverno.
- Telling time — A1 vocabulary: Ask and answer with è for one o’clock and sono for all other hours.
- Daily routine — A1 vocabulary: Sequence reflexive and ordinary verbs across a normal day.
- Places in town — A1 vocabulary: Locate services relative to landmarks with articulated prepositions.
- Transport — A1 vocabulary: Choose in for most vehicles, con for means, and a piedi for walking.
- Travel essentials — A1 vocabulary: Combine destination, luggage, documents, booking, and accommodation.
- Classroom language — A1 vocabulary: Follow plural instructions and ask for help with useful learning nouns.
- Common animals — A1 vocabulary: Describe pets and other animals while learning articles and irregular plurals.
- Greetings and introductions — A1 vocabulary: Choose time-appropriate greetings and formal or informal address.
- Essere: present tense — A1 verb: Master identity, location, description, and origin with six irregular forms.
- Avere: present tense — A1 verb: Express possession, age, hunger, thirst, and common physical states.
- Andare: present tense — A1 verb: Use vad- and and- forms for destinations and plans.
- Fare: present tense — A1 verb: Use facc-/fai/fa patterns in everyday activity expressions.
- Volere: present tense — A1 verb: Express wants and intentions with a stem-changing modal.
- Potere: present tense — A1 verb: Express ability, possibility, and polite permission with poss-/puo-.
- Parlare: regular -are present — A1 verb: Use a stable stem and the core -are endings.
- Mangiare: spelling-preserving -are verb — A1 verb: Keep one i before endings and use mangio/mangi without doubling it.
- Bere: present tense — A1 verb: Use bev- forms for drinks and everyday hydration.
- Venire: present tense — A1 verb: Use veng- and vien- stems for coming, origin, and accompanying someone.
- Definite and indefinite articles — A1 grammar: Choose article allomorphs from gender, number, and the noun’s opening sound.
- Noun plurals — A1 grammar: Change final vowels while respecting gender and common spelling patterns.
- Adjective agreement and position — A1 grammar: Make adjectives match nouns and notice when position changes emphasis or meaning.
- Omitting subject pronouns — A1 grammar: Let verb endings identify the subject and use pronouns mainly for contrast or clarity.
- Basic and articulated prepositions — A1 grammar: Combine a, di, da, in, and su with definite articles when the noun requires one.
- Shopping and payment — A2 vocabulary: Ask about size, discounts, returns, and payment with useful retail phrases.
- At a restaurant — A2 vocabulary: Reserve, order courses, explain a dietary need, and ask for the bill.
- Giving directions — A2 vocabulary: Build a route from commands, turns, crossings, and landmarks.
- Hotel stays — A2 vocabulary: Confirm a booking and solve common room problems at reception.
- At the airport — A2 vocabulary: Follow check-in, baggage, gate, delay, and boarding information.
- Health and the pharmacy — A2 vocabulary: Describe a symptom, its duration, and the treatment you need.
- Work and the office — A2 vocabulary: Connect meetings, teams, deadlines, reports, and clients.
- Hobbies and free time — A2 vocabulary: Match activities to giocare, suonare, fare, or their own verb.
- Feelings and reactions — A2 vocabulary: Describe a feeling, its cause, and a change of state.
- Household chores — A2 vocabulary: Learn chores as natural action-object combinations and reflexive routines.
- Phones and technology — A2 vocabulary: Handle files, passwords, links, messages, and charging.
- Nature and landscapes — A2 vocabulary: Describe a path through woods, rivers, mountains, and coasts.
- Alzarsi: present tense — A2 verb: Match reflexive pronouns to the subject in a daily routine.
- Sapere: present tense — A2 verb: Use so/sai/sa and distinguish known facts or skills from familiarity.
- Dovere: present tense — A2 verb: Express obligation, advice, and probability with a following infinitive.
- Uscire: present tense — A2 verb: Use esc- in singular and third plural, usc- in noi and voi.
- Dire: present tense — A2 verb: Use dic- forms and a dative listener to say or tell something.
- Essere in the passato prossimo — A2 verb: Use avere + stato even though the main verb means to be.
- Avere in the passato prossimo — A2 verb: Combine avere with avuto for completed possession or experiences.
- Andare in the passato prossimo — A2 verb: Use essere + andato and make the participle agree.
- Fare in the passato prossimo — A2 verb: Use avere + fatto for completed actions and fixed activity phrases.
- Regular -are verbs in the passato prossimo — A2 verb: Turn a completed -are action into avere plus an -ato participle.
- Direct object pronouns — A2 grammar: Replace a known object with lo, la, li, or le before the finite verb.
- Indirect object pronouns — A2 grammar: Replace a + person with gli, le, or plural gli/loro.
- The pronouns ci and ne — A2 grammar: Use ci for a place or a + thing, and ne for di + thing or quantities.
- Reflexive verb word order — A2 grammar: Keep mi/ti/si/ci/vi/si before finite verbs and attach them to infinitives or positive commands.
- Essere or avere in the passato prossimo — A2 grammar: Choose essere for many intransitive movements/state changes and all reflexive verbs; avere for most transitive actions.
- Comparisons — A2 grammar: Use più/meno…di or che and equality with (così/tanto)…come/quanto.
- Expanded negation — A2 grammar: Use non before the verb with mai, più, niente/nulla, and nessuno.
- Piacere and servire — A2 grammar: Let the liked or needed item control singular piace/serve or plural piacciono/servono.
- Place prepositions — A2 grammar: Choose a, in, da, and articulated forms by destination type and function.
- Environment and climate — B1 vocabulary: Discuss causes, effects, and practical environmental responses.
- News and media literacy — B1 vocabulary: Check a source, date, evidence, and the difference between reporting and opinion.
- Education and skills — B1 vocabulary: Describe courses, assessment, qualifications, and work experience.
- Housing and renting — B1 vocabulary: Discuss rent, contracts, charges, defects, and moving.
- Relationships and support — B1 vocabulary: Name trust, disagreement, compromise, and reconciliation.
- Public services and paperwork — B1 vocabulary: Navigate forms, supporting documents, appointments, deadlines, and decisions.
- Essere in the imperfetto — B1 verb: Describe past states, settings, and repeated conditions with er-.
- Avere in the imperfetto — B1 verb: Describe past possession, age, needs, and ongoing physical states.
- Fare in the imperfetto — B1 verb: Describe habitual activities and past weather with facev-.
- Andare in the future simple — B1 verb: Use andr- for future destinations and plans.
- Potere in the present conditional — B1 verb: Make requests and possibilities tactful with potr-.
- Volere in the present conditional — B1 verb: Use vorrei/vorremmo for wishes and polite service requests.
- Dovere in the present conditional — B1 verb: Give advice or express an expected outcome with dovr-.
- Passato prossimo or imperfetto? — B1 grammar: Layer a bounded event over background, habit, or an ongoing past action.
- Che and cui in relative clauses — B1 grammar: Use che without a preposition for subject/direct object and cui after a preposition.
- Future in time clauses — B1 grammar: Use future after quando/appena in a future context when the event is not treated as scheduled present.
- Real conditions with se — B1 grammar: Use present after se and present, future, or imperative in the result.
- Cause and consequence — B1 grammar: Choose connectors by whether a clause or noun follows and by rhetorical viewpoint.
- Passive si — B1 grammar: Use si + third-person verb to express general or passive meaning without naming an actor.
- Combined object pronouns — B1 grammar: Combine indirect mi/ti/gli/le/ci/vi with lo/la/li/le or ne in a fixed fused order.
- Questo, quello, and demonstrative pronouns — B1 grammar: Use questo for near/current and quello for contrasted/distant, with article-like forms before nouns.
- Pronoun placement with modals, infinitives, and commands — B1 grammar: Choose between a pre-modal pronoun and attachment to the infinitive; attach it to positive commands.
- Debate and evidence — B2 vocabulary: State a position, qualify it, answer objections, and identify weak assumptions.
- Business and economic change — B2 vocabulary: Distinguish revenue, profit, costs, investment, hiring, and competition.
- Venire in the present subjunctive — B2 verb: Use veng- throughout after necessity, doubt, emotion, or concession.
- Fare in the present subjunctive — B2 verb: Use faccia/facciamo/facciate/facciano after a subjunctive trigger.
- Prendere in the trapassato prossimo — B2 verb: Place a completed action before another past reference point.
- Core subjunctive triggers — B2 grammar: Recognize will, necessity, emotion, doubt, opinion, and concession before choosing the mood.
- Indicative or subjunctive? — B2 grammar: Change mood when an asserted person or fact becomes doubted, denied, desired, or unidentified.
- The past conditional — B2 grammar: Describe an unreal past result, regret, or unconfirmed report with conditional auxiliary + participle.
- Reported speech in a past frame — B2 grammar: Shift pronouns, time expressions, and relative tense around a past reporting verb.
- Il quale and possessive relative structures — B2 grammar: Use preposition + il quale forms for clarity and express whose with di cui or del/della quale.
- Concession and opposition — B2 grammar: Acknowledge a fact while showing it does not prevent a contrasting result.
- Focus and register — B2 grammar: Use dislocation, cleft frames, and pronoun resumption while matching formality to context.