Italian Lessons

Lessons

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Beginner

· 16 lessons

Greetings & Formality

Italian splits 'you' into tu (informal) and Lei (formal) — a distinction English used to have and lost, much like French's tu/vous. Master this before any other vocabulary.

Lesson 2A1

Alphabet & Pronunciation

Italian spelling is far more consistent than English — once you learn a handful of rules for c, g, and a few letter combos, you can pronounce almost any word correctly on sight.

Lesson 3A1

Numbers 0–10

The first ten numbers show up constantly — ages, prices, phone numbers, quantities — and they set up the pattern the rest of the number system builds on.

Lesson 4A1

Family

Family words are some of the first nouns worth learning, since they're gendered in an obvious, memorable way — perfect groundwork before the next lesson tackles articles head-on.

Lesson 5A1

Articles & Gender

Every Italian noun is masculine or feminine, and the little word in front of it — il, la, lo, l' — has to match. It looks fussy at first, but it follows clear, learnable rules.

Lesson 6A1

Pronouns, Essere & Avere

Essere (to be) and avere (to have) are the two most important verbs in the language — both wildly irregular, both worth memorizing cold before anything else.

Lesson 7A1

Sentence Structure

Italian word order will feel familiar coming from English, with one early habit to unlearn: adjectives usually trail behind the noun instead of leading it.

Lesson 8A1

Plural Nouns

Italian pluralizes by changing the noun's final vowel rather than adding -s — once you know the three endings, most plurals become predictable.

Lesson 9A1

Numbers 11–100

Beyond ten, Italian numbers start fusing into single compound words — the rules are simple, but they look unfamiliar until you've seen them a few times.

Lesson 10A1

Present Tense Verbs

Regular Italian verbs fall into three families by their infinitive ending — -are, -ere, -ire — and each family conjugates in its own predictable pattern.

Lesson 11A1

Modal Verbs

Potere (can), dovere (must), and volere (want) unlock a huge range of sentences on their own — each pairs directly with another verb's infinitive.

Lesson 12A1

Question Words

Italian question words work much like their English counterparts, and asking a question needs far less rearranging than English does.

Lesson 13A1

Negation

Negating a sentence in Italian is simpler than in English, and double negatives — which English treats as an error — are actually required.

Lesson 14A1

Adjective Agreement

Italian adjectives change their ending to match the noun they describe — something English adjectives never do at all.

Lesson 15A1

Possessive Adjectives

Italian possessives — my, your, his, her — agree with the thing being owned rather than with the owner, the reverse of how English his/her works.

Lesson 16A1

Daily Routine & Reflexive Verbs

Describing a typical day pulls in Italian's reflexive verbs — actions you do to yourself — which show up far more often than their English equivalents suggest.