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Learn Italian free in your browser — 80 lessons from A1 to B2, with flashcards and pronunciation practice. No subscription, no download.
Why learn Italian with Langula?
Phonetic spelling means fast early progress
Italian's near-perfect correspondence between spelling and sound means you can read aloud accurately after learning just a handful of rules. Langula's pronunciation scorer turns that transparency into honest, instant feedback on every spoken word.
Unlock Italian culture at the source
Dante, Verdi, and Fellini; the vocabulary of classical music — allegro, piano, forte — is literally Italian. Once you have real Italian, following a Puccini libretto or reading an art-history caption in Florence becomes an entirely different experience.
Travel Italy with confidence
Even A1–A2 Italian transforms travel in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, and Tuscany — ordering from a trattoria, navigating by street sign, or chatting with a shopkeeper opens the country in ways English cannot. Langula is free and needs no account, so you can start prepping for your trip right now.
Career edge in Italy's signature industries
Italy leads globally in fashion, design, culinary arts, art history, and luxury goods. Professional Italian opens doors that English alone does not, and even conversational fluency signals genuine commitment to clients and employers in those sectors.
Head start on other Romance languages
Italian shares deep Latin roots with Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian. Reaching B1 in Italian gives you a significant vocabulary and grammar base for any of the others — Spanish speakers in particular reach near mutual intelligibility with Italian quickly.
Reconnect with Italian heritage
Tens of millions of people across Argentina, the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Australia trace their roots to Italy. Learning Italian is a direct path back to family documents, regional culture, and relatives who still speak the language.
How it works
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Italian is preselected — add your source language and go.
Short daily lessons
5–20 minutes a day: new words plus due reviews.
Pronunciation & progress
Repeat aloud, watch your streak and unlock badges.
Your first Italian words
After the very first lesson you can greet people and say thank you.
From A1 to B2 — your structured learning path
Here is how your journey is built: four CEFR levels, 80 lessons. Each lesson teaches 20 new words and 6 example sentences — flashcards and pronunciation practice lock them in before the next level unlocks.
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Learn Italian — free and at your own pace
Italian has around 65 million native speakers and roughly 85 million total when second-language and heritage speakers are counted. It is the official language of Italy, San Marino, and Vatican City, one of Switzerland's four national languages — spoken especially in Ticino — and co-official in Istria. Beyond Europe, substantial Italian-speaking communities have taken root in Argentina, the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Australia, giving the language a global footprint that comfortably outpaces its raw speaker numbers.
Italian repays learners quickly with near-perfect phonetic spelling: once you have absorbed the rules for c and g before e/i and the digraphs ch, gh, gn, and gl, you can read aloud reliably from the first week. The seven vowels are crisp and fully pronounced even when unstressed — no English-style schwa. Double consonants are phonemic, so pala (shovel) and palla (ball) must sound distinct. Nouns carry grammatical gender, plurals form by vowel change rather than -s, and the verb system offers three conjugation classes plus a full subjunctive used routinely for nuance and politeness.
The US Foreign Service Institute places Italian in Category I — the most accessible tier for English speakers — estimating 600 to 750 class hours to professional proficiency. Consistent phonetics make the early stages feel fast: you can pronounce new words confidently before you fully understand them. The real work comes in the middle: grammatical gender, article and adjective agreement, irregular plurals like uomo to uomini, and especially the congiuntivo, which Italian uses routinely to express opinion, doubt, and hypothetical conditions. Speakers of Spanish, French, or Portuguese cover the same ground faster thanks to shared Latin roots.
Langula's 80 structured lessons follow Italian's grammar in sequence, opening with alphabet and phonetic rules at A1 and building through the passato prossimo and reflexive verbs at A2, the futuro and introductory congiuntivo at B1, and the full subjunctive system and hypothetical period at B2. The browser-based pronunciation scorer suits Italian especially well: because spelling predicts sound, feedback on vowel purity and double-consonant length is direct and actionable. Leitner spaced-repetition flashcards with five boxes then drill grammatical gender and irregular plurals until agreement becomes second nature — all free, no sign-up needed to start.
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