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You might know ciao (hi/bye) and grazie (thank you), but the Italian language has so much more to learn beyond essential Italian travel phrases. As one of the romance languages, Italian is spoken with a poetry you don’t find commonly in English. But you might be wondering about the best way to learn Italian on your own.
Fortunately, learning Italian with the Rosetta Stone App is easy, fun, and rewarding. You’ll start learning the basics with word and image association techniques that help you learn much faster than simple rote memorization or games. In just a few weeks, you can confidently engage in simple conversations when you land in Rome or Milan thanks to Rosetta Stone’s proven methods that have helped hundreds of thousands of language learners.
Rosetta Stone’s Italian language app
In our digital world, the convenience of accessing premium language learning services on our phones and other mobile devices is a must. That’s why Rosetta Stone built a user-friendly app for users to learn Italian with short lessons that solidify vocabulary and phrases in context.
Many of the most common Italian verbs are the first thing you’ll learn, along with Italian numbers, greetings, and pronouns. Each lesson is 5 to 15 minutes long, so you can begin learning Italian in any spare moments you have. The app has features you can customize to tailor your learning experience to your needs. If you want extra practice on speaking or reading Italian, you can adjust that in the settings.
Here are some of the most helpful settings in the app that you can customize:
- Easy navigation
- Switch languages
- Speech settings for sensitivity and gender
- Targeted or accelerated learning
- Offline mode
You’ll love how easy the Rosetta Stone App is to learn Italian (or any of our other 24 languages). The app helps you navigate to other features that help you learn Italian more intuitively. The TruAccent speech recognition engine can be fine tuned to make sure you hit every syllable, vowel, and accent perfectly to sound like a native Italian.
4 features to help you learn Italian fast with Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone has unmatched experience with designing the most effective language learning programs that focus on teaching a new language through Dynamic Immersion learning. That means you’ll learn through images, stories, and audio, just as you did to learn your native language as a child.
Rosetta Stone makes it more fun and engaging to practice your Italian grammar and greetings in Italian. Beyond the core curriculum lessons, you can jump into other activities in the Extended Learning features that will accelerate your knowledge of this romantic language. We’ve included descriptions of each below to get you excited about how to learn Italian on your own.
Italian Phrasebook
Some of the most common situations you’ll encounter in Italy will use certain words and phrases more frequently. To help you solidify your vocabulary within each unit, you can go to the Phrasebook at any time and choose a lesson to practice hearing and speaking vocabulary terms about situations like mangiare cibo (eating food) or navigating around a city.
Here are a variety of topics you can explore:
- Meeting people
- Being polite
- Time and money
- Dining out
- Staying in a hotel
- Getting around
- Shopping
- Health and safety
Inside each section, a word or phrase will be presented to you along with a photograph that demonstrates the concept. You can listen to the audio then repeat it until you’re confident in your knowledge and pronunciation. Try your hand at Scusi. Che ora è? which means “Excuse me. What time is it?” Or make sure you know È allergica ai frutti di mare (Are you allergic to seafood?)
Italian Stories
Telling descriptive stories is the gift of most Italians. Conversations are dynamic and often full of tall tales or poetic longings of love and life. When you need a change of pace from learning common phrases and vocabulary, head over to the Extended Learning section and click on Stories.
Each unit includes stories that are written at the level you’re currently learning at. So Unit 1 has short stories using basic words you’ve already learned, plus a few more to challenge you. Each story includes the text and audio so you can read along as you listen to a native speaker read aloud. When you’re confident, try reading the story out loud and test your pronunciation!
A few topics you can read and listen to include:
- il bambino e i pesci (the boy and the fish)
- la photo di papà (the photo of papa)
- un viaggio in Sicilia (a trip to Sicily)
Live Lessons and On-Demand Videos
Part of Rosetta Stone’s mission is to help language learners get to know the culture and customs of countries they’re learning about. Having context about the language and culture helps you feel more comfortable when you travel there since you’ll understand when to use certain types of phrases or words in formal or informal settings.
One feature that helps you learn Italian as it’s used today is the Live Lessons feature. Here you’ll find 25-minute videos created by our native-speaking tutors on a variety of everyday topics you might want to learn about. They’re the perfect way to help you accelerate your mastery of the Italian language since you can plan to watch it live or access past videos when it’s convenient for you.
Here are a few popular topics by our Italian tutors:
- Health and fitness
- First date
- Describing people
- Building sentences
Live Lessons are a great way to hear some of the key vocabulary terms in context, so you’ll learn words like cena in famiglia (family dinner), freschi ingredienti (fresh ingredients), vestersi (dressing up). The more you hear a native speaker discuss basic topics in conversation, the stronger your foundation of Italian will be.
Audio Companion
If you’re sharing a data plan, or you’re often in an area with spotty network coverage, then you’ll appreciate the Audio Companion feature. It’s where you can download all of your Italian language lessons from the Rosetta Stone App. Then they’ll be available offline so you can keep learning Italian wherever you go!
Frequently asked questions about learning Italian with Rosetta Stone’s app
You might be wanting to learn to speak Italian to communicate with family and friends or because you’re planning a trip to la bella Italia (the beautiful Italy). Whatever your reason, the Rosetta Stone App makes learning Italian easy and fast. Here are a few helpful answers to popular questions you might have about getting the hang of the Italian language.
Is Italian hard to learn?
Learning any new language will take some effort, but Italian is considered one of the easier languages to learn. As a romance language, it shares many similarities with languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and French. So if you already speak one of those, then you’ll pick it up quickly. One challenge for English speakers is the pronunciation can feel tricky until you get the hang of it (our tutors can help!) but word order is similar to English.
Can I learn Italian in 3 months?
Italian is listed as a Category 1 in the list of language difficulty rankings, which means it’s one of the easiest languages to learn. In general, a person could learn conversational Italian in about 24-30 weeks. Obviously, this depends on how much time you dedicate to learning Italian each week, which is why it’s helpful to access the Rosetta Stone App anytime and anywhere.
What’s the best way to learn Italian?
If you’re looking for the best way to learn Italian, you’ll need to find a method that helps you learn immersively. While vocabulary games are fun and entertaining, it’s difficult to retain the knowledge and connect the right Italian expressions into conversations with the right context.
With Rosetta Stone’s App, learning Italian is almost intuitive since you’ll learn just as you learned your native language as a child: with pictures, audio, and stories. Best of all, you have access to native-speaking tutors who can help you improve your speech within certain contexts and scenarios. In no time at all, you’ll become a confident Italian speaker!