Complete A1 to B1.2 Curriculum
Italian 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 went there last year. The city is wonderful.
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.
Hello/Goodbye (informal)
Ciao
Good morning
Buongiorno
Good evening
Buonasera
Goodbye (formal)
Arrivederci
Learn basic greetings and the verb 'essere' (to be).
Learn numbers, gendered nouns, and basic articles.
Learn family members and the verb 'avere' (to have).
Learn common -ARE verbs and daily activities.
Explore Italian food, coffee culture, and how to ask for the bill.
Telling time, days of the week, weather expressions, and the irregular verbs 'fare' and 'andare'.
City places, articulated prepositions, irregular verb 'venire' and modal verbs 'potere', 'volere', 'dovere'.
Colors, descriptive adjectives, clothes, and the irregular verb 'sapere'.
Body parts vocabulary, expressing pain using 'mi fa male/mi fanno male', and wellness verbs.
Review and test everything you have learned in this level.
Talking about completed past actions using the passato prossimo with 'avere'.
Talking about movement, change of state, and reflexive actions in the past using the auxiliary 'essere'.
Describing ongoing states, weather, and repeated actions in the past.
Discussing upcoming plans, projects, and future predictions.
Describing house layouts, furniture, and daily household routines with reflexive verbs.
Vacation bookings, transportation, and geographical prepositions including 'ci' and 'ne'.
Booking train tickets, using past tenses, and talking about transit.
Shopping at the market, asking for assistance, and purchasing items.
Extending, accepting, and declining invitations politely, relative pronouns, and comparisons.
Review and test everything you have learned in this level.
Expressing hypothetical situations, advice, and polite requests using the conditional present and simple 'si' clauses.
Expressing necessity, emotions, doubts, and wishes using present subjunctive with regular and irregular verbs.
Discussing current events, headlines, and reported speech, using the passive voice with 'essere' or 'venire'.
Discussing ecology, recycling, and conservation, while mastering double pronoun combinations like 'me lo' and 'glielo'.
Describing movies, books, and exhibitions, using the relative pronoun 'cui' with prepositions.
Recounting travel issues, delays, and lost items using the past perfect (trapassato prossimo) and past infinitive structures.
Discussing physical/mental health and regrets, using past conditional of modal verbs and the structure 'permettere di'.
Formulating arguments about civic duty, inequality, and community, using concessive clauses with subjunctive and coordinate connectors.
Describing life milestones, curricula vitae, and durations, using prepositions 'da', 'per', 'fa', 'in', and 'tra/fra'.
Review and test everything you have learned in this level.
Expressing regrets, hypothetical past events, and historical alternatives using 'condizionale passato' and 'se' clauses with 'congiuntivo trapassato'.
Mastering the use of present subjunctive after complex conjunctions like 'affinché', 'senza che', 'prima che', and 'a patto che'.
Formulating formal emails, letters, and job applications, and mastering the use of the Italian gerund ('gerundio present' and 'passato') to express cause, manner, or simultaneity.
Structuring persuasive arguments and logical chains using connectors like 'poiché', 'visto che', 'di conseguenza', and contrast expressions like 'da un lato... dall'altro'.
Expressing hypothetical wishes ('magari', 'se solo') and predicting future completed actions using 'futuro anteriore' (future perfect).
Discussing cybersecurity, software, and AI, using passive constructions ('si dice') and the causative verb 'farsi' + infinitive (to have something done).
Mastering common Italian idioms ('prendere in giro', 'avere un diavolo per capello', 'rompere il ghiaccio') and pronominal verbs with idiomatic meanings ('cavarsela', 'andarsene', 'infischiarsene').
Discussing social justice, ethical dilemmas, and human rights, using complex relative pronouns ('il quale', 'la quale', 'i quali', 'le quali').
Navigating disagreements, mediating arguments, and reporting past statements with backshifting (present -> imperfect, future -> past conditional, past -> pluperfect).
Review and test everything you have learned in this level.