italianb1in 73 days

Yes. Every lesson, the audio, the writing and speaking tasks and both practice exams are free, with no sign-up and no ads.

73 days of about 25 minutes: 59 days of new words and grammar, 12 review missions and 2 practice exams. Go faster or slower as you like; nothing is locked.

All three test the B1 level of the Common European Framework (at CILS it is called UNO-B1, at CELI it is CELI 2), and this course covers it. None of them publishes a word list, so our words are our own selection based on the Profilo della lingua italiana (the Council of Europe reference description for Italian) and the Kelly frequency list, checked word by word. The grammar follows the B1 syllabuses of CILS (Università per Stranieri di Siena), PLIDA (Società Dante Alighieri, specifications of October 2026) and CELI (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), and our two practice exams copy the CILS UNO-B1 layout. This is not official exam material, and the score is only a guide.

Five parts, each worth 20 points: listening (about 30 minutes, each recording played twice), reading (50 minutes), language structures (1 hour: articles and prepositions, verb forms, words in gaps and what to say in a situation), writing (70 minutes: a text of 100–120 words and a letter of 50–80 words) and speaking (about 10 minutes: a conversation and a short talk). You pass with at least 11 of 20 in every part, and a part you fail can be taken again later. Check the Università per Stranieri di Siena website for dates and the current format before you book.

Saying what you think and why. You learn the congiuntivo after penso, credo and mi sembra che (penso che sia vero), the condizionale for advice and wishes (al posto tuo, partirei), the trapassato for stories (il treno era già partito), ci and ne, two pronouns together (te lo mando, glielo dico), the formal imperative for offices, and the linking words that make a real argument: anche se, tuttavia, quindi, da una parte… dall’altra. From day 3, one day in three ends with a short text to write or a talk to record, like the exam.

Yes: the standard Italian of Italy, the one the exams use, written as it sounds with the accent only on stressed final vowels (città, perché). The story is set in Bologna, so you also hear a few local words, and tu and Lei are used as Italians use them: tu with friends and colleagues, Lei with officials, doctors and strangers.

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