- Talk Italian – Web Site
- A lively introduction to Italian presented by the BBC.
- BBC Italianissimo – Web Site – YouTube
- Italianissimo was a TV series to learn Italian first broadcast in 1992 and repeated regularly over the next 10 years. You can watch the videos online.
- Duolingo Italian – Web Site
- A popular free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. As users progress through lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.
- Foreign Service Institute Italian Head Start – Web site
- Textbook, glossary, culture notes (PDF) and 21 audio lessons (MP3).
- Foreign Service Institute Italian Fast Course – Vol 1. – Vol 2.
- Includes a textbook (PDF) and 30 audio lessons (MP3).
- Foreign Service Institute Italian Programmed Course – Web site
- Textbook and instructor’s manual (PDF) and 24 audio lessons (MP3).
- LearnItalianPod.com Online
- A series of Italian language lessons that will get you up and running. I have personally used them and found them effective.
- MyDailyPhrase.com Online
- Learn Italian step by step over a course of 20 weeks. Lessons cover all the language you need to know to get by on a visit to a Italian-speaking country. Created by the same people who put together the popular series “Coffee Break Spanish.”
- Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full – Web – YouTube – iTunes –
- MIT instructor Dr. Paola Rebusco uses cooking to help her students learn to speak Italian.
Free Italian Language Courses
