Italian · For teachers

Every Italian printable, chapter by chapter

The whole Italian curriculum in one place, mapped to its 1 chapters and 24 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.

Chapter 1 · How Italian works

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  1. How Italian worksIntroduction

    The gentlest of the major languages to start, and the work sits in two verbs. Here is what is easy, what is not, and why.

  2. Italian spelling is a faithful servant of sound. Learn the hard and soft c, the double consonants, and the two accents, and you can say any word you can read.

  3. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  4. Seven definite articles where English has one, and the awkward-looking half is not grammar at all. Say il zio out loud and you will hear why lo exists.

  5. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  6. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  7. Irregular everywhere, and every compound tense is assembled from them. This is the one place in beginner Italian where rote learning is genuinely the right tool.

  8. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. The regular majority conjugates on sight. The irregulars are the verbs you need most, which is not bad luck: frequency protects irregularity.

  11. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  12. Read: Lo zio e il tempoGraded-reader story

    An uncle who never has time, and the day he stays. Built entirely from the hundred words of this chapter.

  13. E, ma, oThemed review

    The connectives that hold Italian sentences together, sorted by what they actually do rather than by the three English words a dictionary offers for each.

  14. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  15. Word printables

    Per-word sheets

    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each