A stepping stone to real-world language

Watching the news in Italian is a great way to improve your listening skills and widen your vocabulary: news broadcasts offer a variety of words and expressions that are seldom encountered in textbooks, and at the same time they provide a valuable insight into Italy’s culture, politics, and everyday life.

Now, that’s all well and good, but the truth is, you won’t be able to understand much of it unless you already have a good grasp of the language: the speed of the news is usually too fast for a beginner or intermediate learner, and the vocabulary will be formal and quite different from the everyday language that you have learned so far.

That’s how we designed our Learn Italian with the News videos: keeping in mind the needs of beginner and intermediate learners, we offer a selection of news in SLOW ITALIAN, much easier to understand, and we explain key words and recurrent expressions to help you develop your vocabulary.

Each video includes English captions and the on-screen transcription of all Italian audio, plus accompanying notes, questions & video transcript.

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Each of the videos listed on the left is embedded in an individual page where you can also find a PDF with the video transcript. Starting from episode 7, you can donwload PDFs with exercises, questions, and answers, while for videos 1 to 6 questions & answer key are included at the end of each video.