Get Started in Beginners’ Italian

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Italian!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship--whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners’ Italian will help you to:

• Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
• Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
• Understand and pronounce Italian easily with online audio.
• Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
• Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Is this course for me?
Beginners’ Italian is for absolute beginners and those who’ve had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Italian. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it’s the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Italian and Enjoy Italian.  
Have some fun with our Short Stories in Italian for Beginners by Olly Richards’ or 50 Italian Coffee Breaks.

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Vittoria Bowles taught Italian at the University of Brighton, where she was principal lecturer. She developed many courses including one for English-speaking students to attend Italian universities which won the Unilever prize for innovation.