Italiano The language of food, music and talking with your hands.
All three are recognised.
Italian has three widely recognised certificates: CILS (University for Foreigners of Siena), CELI (University for Foreigners of Perugia) and PLIDA (Società Dante Alighieri). All three follow the European levels A1 to C2, and so do these courses.
6 levels · 3 open
A free beginner Italian course: 738 everyday A1 words and the CILS A1 grammar in 67 short daily lessons, with audio and two CILS A1-style practice exams.
67 days · 738 words · 28 writing & speaking tasks · 2 practice exams
Start the course →Free Italian after A1: 581 new words and the A2 grammar (imperfetto, futuro, object pronouns) in 55 daily lessons, with audio and two CILS A2-style exams.
55 days · 581 words · 39 grammar points · 27 writing & speaking tasks · 2 practice exams
Start the course →Free Italian after A2: about 1,000 new words and the B1 grammar (congiuntivo, condizionale, trapassato) in 73 daily lessons, with two CILS B1-style exams.
73 days · 1,023 words · 31 grammar points · 37 writing & speaking tasks · 2 practice exams
Start the course →Upper intermediate: follow talks and articles on most topics, take part in discussions and argue a point, and write clear, detailed texts.
About this level →Advanced: understand long, demanding texts and what they imply, speak fluently without searching for words, and write well-structured texts for study and work.
About this level →Mastery: understand virtually everything you hear or read, sum up arguments from several sources, and express fine shades of meaning precisely.
About this level →New to Italian? Start with Italian A1 in 67 days. Each level builds on the one before: its words come back in the next course without being taught again, so you can also jump in at your own level.
Every course is free, with no sign-up: your progress stays in this browser.
Each day is a dot on your path. Join them up and watch the picture grow.
A day is about 14 bites of 1–3 minutes: a warm-up, words, quick quizzes, writing, a sentence, a game. Stop between any two.
Cards come back just before you forget them. Games and real dialogues make it stick.
Every course has printable PDFs with words, patterns and practice.