Italiano per tutti

Hi, I'm Adam and that's my dog Luna. Want to learn Italian with us? Adamiamo!Adding -iamo to a word makes it an action. You can make silly words in Italian like this:pizza โ†’ pizziamo! (let's pizza!)
gelato โ†’ gelatiamo! (let's gelato!)
Luna โ†’ luniamo! (let's Luna!)

2000 of the most frequent Italian words, split into friendly sets. Flip a card, hear it spoken, then quiz each other. Perfect for a child and a grown-up, side by side.

Luna, a cream retriever wearing sunglasses, driving a red Vespa with Adam riding behind her
Adam with his American dad, his Italian mamma and Luna in a sunny courtyard
Meet the family

La famiglia is everything

My dad is American, my mom is Italian, and we go back and forth between the US and Italy and two languages. Come and meet everyone โ€” Luna included.

Meet Adam's family โ†’
Adam in an Italia scarf, waving, with Luna the cream retriever

Emilia-Romagna! This is where I'm from!

In Modena, families keep barrels of balsamic vinegar in the attic, sometimes older than the grandparents. A few drops go on cheese, or even on strawberries.

Come and see my region

Word of the day

la

the (f.)

La casa รจ grande. โ€” The house is big.

Pick a word set

Start at set 1 โ€” the words that show up in almost every Italian sentence.

Places in Italy

Say the name out loud, then tap a picture for a short "Did you know?".

See all 25 places โ†’

Flip & learn

Big, tappable cards with an example sentence on the back.

Hear every word

Italian pronunciation read aloud, slowly, as many times as you like.

Collect stars

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Ten dreamy corners of Italy

Five that everybody knows, five that Italians keep for themselves. Say each name out loud โ€” that's practice too!

  • Painted illustration of five pastel villages on Ligurian cliffs above a turquoise sea
    Famous ยท Liguria

    Le Cinque Terre

    The Five Lands

    Five pastel villages hanging over the sea. You walk between them on cliff paths, with vineyards on one side and blue water on the other.

  • Painted illustration of a quiet Venetian canal at dawn with a gondola under a stone bridge
    Famous ยท Veneto

    Venezia

    Venice

    A city with canals instead of roads. Wake up early and the water is glassy, the bridges are empty and the whole place feels like a dream.

  • Painted illustration of a white and yellow cliffside village with lemon trees above a blue sea
    Famous ยท Campania

    La Costiera Amalfitana

    The Amalfi Coast

    Lemons the size of your head, white houses stacked on cliffs and a road that curls above the sea. Try a granita al limone at the top.

  • Painted illustration of Roman ruins and umbrella pines at golden hour with children by a fountain
    Famous ยท Lazio

    Roma

    Rome

    Two thousand years of city, all at once. Children still splash in the fountains while swifts race around the umbrella pines at sunset.

  • Painted illustration of rolling Tuscan hills with a cypress-lined road and a stone farmhouse
    Famous ยท Toscana

    La Val d'Orcia

    The Val d'Orcia, Tuscany

    The hills everyone draws when they draw Italy: green waves, a line of cypress trees and a stone farmhouse at the end of a white road.

  • Painted illustration of honey-coloured cave houses in a rocky ravine lit at dusk
    Local favourite ยท Basilicata

    Matera

    Matera

    A town carved straight into the rock, lived in for nine thousand years. At dusk the cave windows light up like a hillside full of fireflies.

  • Painted illustration of a lagoon town with a brick bridge, fishing huts and pink flamingos
    Local favourite ยท Emilia-Romagna

    Comacchio

    Comacchio

    Adam's favourite secret: a little lagoon town of bridges and fishing huts, where flamingos stand in the shallow water at breakfast time.

  • Painted illustration of a hilltop village above a plain striped with red, blue and yellow flowers
    Local favourite ยท Umbria

    Castelluccio di Norcia

    Castelluccio di Norcia

    Every June the plain below this tiny village turns into stripes of red, blue and yellow flowers. Italians call it la fioritura โ€” the blooming.

  • Painted illustration of a tiny stone village on a pinnacle reached by a long footbridge above mist
    Local favourite ยท Lazio

    Civita di Bagnoregio

    Civita di Bagnoregio

    The town that floats. It sits on a pinnacle of soft rock and you reach it on one long footbridge, often walking above the morning mist.

  • Painted illustration of a cliff-top Calabrian town above a turquoise bay with red onions on a balcony
    Local favourite ยท Calabria

    Tropea

    Tropea

    White cliffs, water the colour of a swimming pool, and sweet red onions hanging from every balcony. The south at its brightest.

Luna the retriever on a red VespaPlay and Practice!