What is Patreon & how does it work?

Patreon is a platform that allows you to support your favourite artists and content creators by pledging a monthly amount of your choice. Depending on if and how a creator decides to reward their patrons, your pledge can be a simple donation or an actual membership fee. Patreon provides an easy way to offer additional content and services by means of locked posts and attachments that can only be accessed by patrons, and it charges creators a 5 to 12% commission fee.

Important: new patrons are charged upfront so they can gain immediate access to all past content, and then on the 1st of the next month. Taxes will be added to your pledge if you live in Europe or other countries that apply VAT. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time.

Why support us on Patreon?

Making a pledge on Patreon is a great way to let us know that you enjoy the free content that we provide on this Website and on our YouTube channel.

Writing, filming, and editing our videos is very time-consuming, and we are investing most of our time and energy in this project. While most of our content is and will always remain freely available, we also want to provide additional tools for those who are really passionate about the Italian language & culture, and would like to delve deeper. We have a lot of ideas for new video & audio content, and we will gradually roll them out on Patreon.

Visit our Patreon page to know more
and to become a patron.

Tiers & Benefits

We currently have 3 separate tiers. If you'd like additional benefits, don't hesitate to send in your suggestions!

$1 - Sostenitore

Thank you so much for joining our circle! As a supporter:

  • You are welcome to send in your requests for topics to be included in our videos: anything that has to do with Italy and the Italian language and that you’d like us to discuss or explain on our YouTube channel.
  • You gain access to exclusive PDFs with additional content for our language videos, including Italian Listening Practice & Learn Italian with the News.

$5 - Benefattore

As a benefactor you get all the benefits of supporters, and also:

  • You gain access to exclusive PDFs with additional content for all our videos (including art, music, literature, etc.)
  • You can download audio files for our new language videos with all audio in Italian, and the related transcripts. We will progressively make these additional files available for past videos, too.

$10 or more - Mecenate

Together with our eternal gratitude, you get all of the above, and also:

  • Access to our Patreon-only podcast in Italian, which will include interesting facts & cultural insights, and Q&As with your questions.
  • If you choose to, you will be credited in our videos.

As a welcome gift, we will also send you our complete Italian Grammar eBook (not just the Basics freebie!), which will be available very soon. We're currently in the process of reviewing the final sections.