This free online course teaches you how to communicate effectively in Italian with hands-on exercises and practice.

Spoken by over 85 million people for over a thousand years, Italian is one of the most romantic languages in the world. Learning Italian will help you as a tourist travelling to Italy or Switzerland or as a professional looking to expand your business in the global market. We will introduce you to everyday vocabulary in Italian to help you communicate well when you meet someone. You will begin with greetings and learn how to introduce yourself. Then you will learn the words used to ensure your manners are appropriate. You will discover numbers and colours, particularly their masculine and feminine versions. Furthermore, you will study how to pronounce some foods and animals. Finally, to help you spell Italian words correctly, we will introduce you to the Italian alphabet.

As you progress, you will discover how to form sentences using the vocabulary you have mastered. For example, you will examine the three types of verbs that end with ‘-are’, ‘-here’ and ‘-ire’. Since conjugation plays a vital role in most languages, you will also learn how to conjugate verbs. Then you will explore some regular and irregular verbs, singular and plural nouns and adjectives. Moreover, we will also cover the days of the week, months of the year and how to express or form sentences using origins, religious and political vocabulary words in Italian.

Finally, you will learn about the family tree. We will teach you to name each family member, from great-grandparents to children. Then you will study some adjectives to help you when describing someone's physical characteristics and personality. Additionally, we will provide some helpful vocabulary words to help you with directions and identifying places in Italian. Start learning Italian now and create a fantastic opportunity for yourself.