07 Sep Learn Italian for Free
Everyone who starts a new language asks the same two questions: where do I begin, and what will it cost me? Search for how to learn Italian for free and you’ll find dozens of apps promising miracles in five minutes a day. The price isn’t the problem — the problem is that most of them lead nowhere. There’s no path.
That’s exactly why my two Substack programmes exist.
Italian for Beginners — if you’re starting from zero
This isn’t a blog with scattered posts. It’s a real course: over 22 lessons in a deliberate order, bilingual explanations, exercises, listening practice and recurring series like WORD BOOSTER, which covers one vocabulary theme every month. You start with pronunciation, numbers and your first useful phrases, and you get to the point where you can talk about your job, your family and your day. A large part of the material is open to everyone, at no cost.
Daily Italian — if you’re ready to go further
Once the basics are in place, what you need is consistency. Daily Italian is built for A2, B1 and B2: texts, exercises and vocabulary reviews, all of it in Italian, because immersion teaches more than any translation ever will. The listening tasks are deliberately a little too hard, often with background noise — exactly like a bar in Rome. If you want the full archive and extra practice in chat, there’s Premium.
A path, not an app
Together, the two programmes take you from your first ciao to a real conversation, guided by a teacher who has worked with adult learners for twenty years and is a CELI examiner.
Here, learn Italian for free isn’t a marketing hook — it’s the starting point. Subscribe, read the first lessons, and decide later whether you want more.
This week only, you can get 50% off an annual subscription to both programmes.
