Introduction:
Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. Italian is the closest national language to Latin, from which it descends via vulgar Latin. Taking into account both national and regional languages, it is seen that Italian and Sardinian are together the least differentiated from Latin. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia).
Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. Italian is included under the languages covered by the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Romania, although Italian is neither a co-official nor a protected language in these countries. Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both Italian (either in its standard form or regional varieties) and other regional languages
Smartphones today have around 100,000 times the speed of an early computer.
How amazing is that?
Now, if only we could harness all that power and use it towards learning Italian…
Oh, wait, we can!
we’ll dive into seven awesome apps that’ll have you speaking Italian in no time.
The 6 best free online Italian courses and classes are:
Multibhashi:
The Bangalore-based educational platforms offer a wide range of language learning opportunities at your convenience where all are where the choice is yours. The platform is exclusively online. You can get a classroom-like atmosphere from here with lively interaction from the language expert and your classmates. The classes are of two types, Group webinar class and to one class. The duration of the courses is 30 min per class. The minimum number of classes that you can take is 30 classes. It can be increased according to your preference. You can take the group class provided by Multibhashi or, if you prefer learning alone then you can take one class also. The fee structure of both the classes is different. The timings of the classes are also flexible and are up to you to decide. Plus point here in Multibhashi is that you can take a free demo class before deciding where to join.The result will be satisfactory!
FluentU
Do you like to watch videos on your phone? Why not watch videos and learn Italian at the same time?
FluentU takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news, and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.
Each video has interactive subtitles that you can check for a definition. Want to know more about a certain word? Click on it to be taken to its definition, pronunciation guide, and links to other video clips where it appears.
In addition to providing tons of videos to learn from, FluentU also offers downloadable audio dialogues and transcripts to use later when you’re offline.
Mondly
The app gets the lessons rolling with a simple conversation between native speakers, in full, excellent audio. conversations contain the target words and phrases which you’ll be drilled on in many different ways.
The app checks your understanding with various testing modes like matching words to their English translations and forming sentences and phrases through translation. With the help of Mondly’s non-repetitive exercises, you’ll assimilate the vocabulary into your long-term memory.
There are daily lessons and a leaderboard to keep you motivated as well as awesome graphics and cool pictures.
50 Languages
There are so many ways to learn here. You can check the phrasebook, do some crossword puzzles or play “Find the Opposites,” to name just a few. Learners will be most interested in the phrasebook, which contains the bulk of the word list and the lessons in the app.
The 50 Languages Italian app powerfully pairs text and audio to teach vocabulary.
Male and female native speakers take turns pronouncing the vocabulary for you. You can repeat the audio pronunciations as often as you like. And if you want, there are also flashcards to help drill the words into your head.
When you think you’re ready to be tested, choose from the five tests available: written answer, multiple-choice, word order, fill in the blank, and even a bubble game.
Verbi Italiani
Italian verbs can be quite challenging for many language learners, so here’s an app that’s dead easy to use and helps you come to grips with the intricacies of Italian verb conjugation.
Nothing is as simple as this app. There’s a box that you type your verb into. Press “Conjugate” and outcome all the possible conjugations for your verb. (The app has a bank of around 10,000 verbs, so you’ll most likely find the conjugation you’re looking for.)
In 24 Hours: Learn Italian
This app wants to teach you Italian in “24 hours.” Talk about lightning-fast!
Now, whether you want to take this claim literally or not is yours to decide, but the app does align itself with this “24 hours” theme. It gives you the most useful words and phrases in the language, dealing only with the most common adjectives, adverbs and nouns.
There are 24 sections to the app, and in addition to the “common words” already mentioned, you have sections that deal with money, directions, time and other useful topics.
iTranslate
iTranslate is your translator and dictionary rolled into one.
The really cool thing about it is that it has voice recognition technology so you can speak into your phone’s mic and say something in English (or Italian). The app will then translate it into Italian (or English) audio (text translations will also appear on your screen).
Simply show this to a native speaker and when he speaks into the phone’s mic, his Italian will be translated back to your English.
Conclusion:
Now that you’ve got the dirt on these apps, go ahead and download them. They’ll prove to you just how easy it is to learn Italian.
Of course, there will be challenges along the way, but that’s true for any learning experience. Stick with it and you’ll be on the road to speaking Italian like a native!
So start Learning
All the best!!!