Italian opens magical doors
When you learn Italian, you don’t just get a language – you get access to a whole hidden culture. You get to belong to an old and beautiful country in a new and exciting way.
And it’s not as hard as some people say. You just have to learn words, and learn the edges between words – how they fit into each other. That’s exactly what we do for you, with our little word game.
You hear something in English, you say it in Italian, you hear it in Italian.
We take care of everything else – all the timings for revision, all the variations to get you used to the edges. All you have to do is keep showing up, listen to something in English and (as it says on the tin!) say something in Italian.
Fun facts!
- In 1861, during Italy’s unification (the Risorgimento), Italian became the official language of the newly formed nation-state.
- In Italian, the language is known as Italiano or italiana.
- Colin Firth, Viggo Mortensen, Jodie Foster, Penelope Cruz and Helen Mirren all speak Italian!
- Italian is recognised as one of the Romance languages, directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
- Italian evolved from the colloquial Latin spoken during the Roman Empire and, along with Sardinian, is one of the least divergent languages from Latin.
- Did you know that the largest Welsh-speaking community outside of Wales is in Patagonia, Argentina? Interestingly, Argentina also hosts the largest Italian-speaking community outside of Italy!
