Free Italian Lessons

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• Talk Italian – Web Site
  • A lively introduction to Italian presented by the BBC.
• BBC Italianissimo – Web Site – YouTube
  • Italianissimo was a TV series to learn Italian first broadcast in 1992 and repeated regularly over the next 10 years. You can watch the videos online.
• Duolingo Italian – Web Site  
  • A popular free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. As users progress through lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.
• Foreign Service Institute Italian Head Start – Web site
  • Textbook, glossary, culture notes (PDF) and 21 audio lessons (MP3).
• Foreign Service Institute Italian Fast Course – Web site
  • Includes a textbook (PDF) and 30 audio lessons (MP3).
• Foreign Service Institute Italian Programmed Course – Web site
  • Textbook and instructor’s manual (PDF) and 24 audio lessons (MP3).
• LearnItalianPod.com iTunes Free
  • A series of Italian language lessons that will get you up and running. I have personally used them and found them effective.
• Let’s Speak Italian iTunes Free Feed
  • This collection will help you learn Italian in small, manageable 5-minute bites.
• MyDailyPhrase.com iTunes Free
  • Learn Italian step by step over a course of 20 weeks. Lessons cover all the language you need to know to get by on a visit to a Italian-speaking country. Created by the same people who put together the popular series “Coffee Break Spanish.”
• Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full – Web – YouTube – iTunes –
  • MIT instructor Dr. Paola Rebusco uses cooking to help her students learn to speak Italian.

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