Complete A1 to B2.2 Curriculum
🇮🇹Course: ItalianItalian is the language of art, music, fashion and food — the language of Dante, Michelangelo and Ferrari. With 85 million speakers and deep cultural richness, learning Italian is a journey you will never regret.
Italian present tense with three conjugation groups (-are, -ere, -ire) and essential irregular verbs: essere, avere, andare, fare, stare.
Parlo italiano ogni giorno. / Lei ha un cane bellissimo. / Andiamo al mare domani.
The most common past tense — formed with avere or essere + past participle. Used for completed actions and recent events.
Ho mangiato la pizza. / Siamo andati al cinema ieri sera. / Ha letto quel libro?
Italian nouns are masculine or feminine. Articles (il, la, i, le, un, una) agree in gender and number with the noun.
Il treno è in ritardo. / La pasta è buonissima. / Gli amici sono arrivati.
Used for habitual past actions, ongoing states and background descriptions. Pairs with passato prossimo for storytelling.
Quando ero bambino, giocavo a calcio. / Faceva caldo e c'era molta gente in piazza.
The future tense uses infinitive + endings. Irregular futures include essere → sar-, avere → avr-, fare → far-.
Partirò domani mattina. / Sarà una bella giornata. / Avranno molto lavoro.
Italian adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they describe. This applies to colours, nationalities and descriptive words.
Un libro interessante. / Una città bellissima. / Ragazzi simpatici. / Ragazze brave.
Have you ever been to Rome? — Passato prossimo for life experience.
Yes! I visited Rome last year. The city is wonderful. — With avere the participle never changes; with essere it would be sono andato / sono andata depending on the speaker.
What did you like most? — Indirect object pronoun + piacere.
I loved walking through Trastevere in the evenings. I'd like to go back soon.
Italian is widely considered one of the easiest languages for English speakers, especially those who know some French or Spanish. It has consistent pronunciation rules and a grammar structure that is logical once you learn the patterns.
Italian has about 85 million native speakers, mostly in Italy and Switzerland. It's also widely spoken in diaspora communities worldwide and is the language of opera, art, fashion and cuisine.
Noun gender and article agreement affects almost every sentence. Mastering whether a noun is masculine or feminine — and making adjectives agree — is the single most impactful early skill to develop.
Yes — Italian dialects vary significantly. LingoNibble teaches standard Italian (italiano standard), which is the educated norm across all regions and what you'll hear on TV, radio and in formal contexts.
After A1 you'll be able to introduce yourself, talk about your family, describe your daily routine, order food and navigate basic social situations in Italian.
Guide · Italian roadmap
A week-by-week study plan, the grammar that matters at each stage, and sample dialogues at A2 and B1.
Hello / Bye (informal)
Ciao
Good morning
Buongiorno
Good evening
Buonasera
Goodbye (formal)
Arrivederci
Master essential Italian greetings, introductions, and the irregular auxiliary verb 'essere' (to be).
Master singular and plural definite articles (il, lo, la, l', i, gli, le) and classroom nouns.
Master numbers 1–100, expressing age, possessions, and the auxiliary verb 'avere' (to have).
Master indefinite articles (un, uno, una, un') and ordering food and drinks in an Italian bar.
Master regular -are verbs in the present indicative (parlare, mangiare, abitare, lavorare).
Master -ere and -ire verbs including -isc- insertion verbs.
Learn transport nouns and simple prepositions (a, in, da, di, per, con, su).
Master food items, market shopping, and adjective agreement (gender & number).
Learn family vocabulary and possessive adjectives (mio, tuo, suo, nostro, vostro, loro).
Synthesize A1 knowledge, learn modal verbs (dovere, potere, volere), and introductory Passato Prossimo.
Master choosing between 'avere' and 'essere' in the passato prossimo and agreeing past participles with gender and number.
Master the imperfetto tense for habits, weather, background descriptions, emotional states, and age.
Master contrasting completed past events (passato prossimo) with ongoing background actions or habits (imperfetto).
Master combining simple prepositions (di, a, da, in, su) with definite articles (il, lo, la, l', i, gli, le).
Master direct object pronouns (mi, ti, lo, la, ci, vi, li, le) and past participle agreement in compound tenses.
Master indirect object pronouns (mi, ti, gli, le, ci, vi, gli/loro) and verbs taking indirect objects.
Master reflexive pronouns (mi, ti, si, ci, vi, si) in present indicative and compound past with mandatory 'essere' auxiliary and subject agreement.
Master using 'ci' for locations and prepositional phrases (a/in) and 'ne' for quantities, partitives, and agreement.
Master the informal imperative for commands, advice, and exhortations (tu, noi, voi) including irregulars and pronoun placement.
Synthesize all A2 Italian grammar: past tenses (passato prossimo & imperfetto), preposizioni articolate, direct/indirect pronouns, reflexives, ci/ne, and imperatives.
Master expressing personal opinions and beliefs using 'credo che', 'penso che', and regular/irregular present subjunctive forms.
Master expressing emotions, fears, hopes, and doubts with 'spero che', 'temo che', 'dubito che'.
Master Past Subjunctive (Congiuntivo Passato) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Present Conditional (Condizionale Presente) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Past Conditional (Condizionale Passato) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Combined Pronouns (Pronomi Combinati) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Hypothetical Sentences Type 1 (Reality) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Hypothetical Sentences Type 2 (Possibility) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Relative Pronouns (Pronomi Relativi) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Italian B1.1 Capstone Synthesis with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Impersonal Structures: 'Si' Impersonale & Passivante with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Passive Voice (Forma Passiva) with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Gerund & Stare + Gerund with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Indefinite Pronouns & Adjectives with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Discourse Markers & Connectives with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Expressing Regret & Past Hypotheses with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Formal & Business Italian with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Italian Art & Cultural Heritage with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Society, Environment & Modern Life with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Master Italian B1.2 Final Mastery Capstone with authentic examples and balanced drills.
Mastering the formation and usage of the Imperfect Subjunctive in subordinate clauses.
Mastering the Pluperfect Subjunctive for past anteriority and unfulfilled desires.
Master constructing Type 3 hypothetical sentences for unfulfilled past actions, mixed conditionals, and formal inverted clauses without 'se'.
Mastering passive constructions with essere, venire, and andare.
Mastering indirect speech and tense concordance after past reporting verbs.
Mastering implicit clauses using simple and compound gerunds and absolute participle constructions.
Mastering subtle concessions and contrast using sebbene, nonostante, pur + gerund, and eppure.
Mastering advanced indefinite pronouns and adjectives and their mood requirements.
Mastering idiomatic procomplementary verbs with fixed pronouns and past participle agreements.
Synthesizing B2.1 grammar (subjunctive, passives, gerunds, indefinites, and pronominal verbs) in corporate negotiation settings.
Mastering restrictive and condition-setting connectors with the subjunctive (a patto che, purché, a meno che non).
Mastering topicalization, left/right dislocations, and spoken Italian syntactic emphasis (e.g. Il caffè lo prendo amaro).
Mastering implicit clauses with past infinitive constructions after prepositions (dopo, per, prima di, senza).
Decoding official administrative jargon, nominalization patterns, archaic formulas, and bureaucratic syntax.
Mastering the journalistic conditional (condizionale di dissociazione / di citazione) to report unconfirmed news, alleged facts, and hearsay safely.
Recognizing regular and irregular past remote verb forms in literary, historical, and narrative contexts.
Mastering altered nouns and adjectives, suffix semantics, rhetorical nuances, and gender-shift exceptions.
Mastering polite disagreement, diplomatic hedging, courteous request formulas, and syntactic mitigation.
Mastering academic essay structures, monograph syntax, abstract nominalization, and high-register argumentative connectors.
Synthesizing all upper-intermediate B2 structures for thesis defense, spontaneous debate, and executive public speaking.