Italian · Italiano
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About Italian
- Language family
- Indo-European, Italic, Romance
- Where it's spoken
- Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City
- Speakers
- roughly 65 million native speakers
Italian evolved from the Tuscan dialect of Vulgar Latin and was popularized as a literary standard by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in the 13th and 14th centuries, long before political unification in 1861 made it a national language. Of the major Romance languages, it retains vocabulary and sounds closest to Latin. Its cognate overlap with Spanish, French, and Portuguese makes it a natural second Romance language to add.
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FSI Italian course
Public-domain FSI Italian courseware — hub anchor.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Live Lingua Italian library
Public-domain course downloads with audio where available.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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DLI GLOSS Italian
Search GLOSS for authentic reading/listening lessons.
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course free | B1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Coffee Break Italian
Friendly audio course podcast.
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course free | A1-B1 | freemium | 2026-07-22 |