Learn with the English beside you. Then understand it on its own.

A book for your phone: short scenes with one family, the English beside every line, and you say it out loud from the first lesson. When the words are yours, follow Sofia’s stories with no English at all. One payment, built to be finished.

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How it works

Learn it, with the English beside you

Each lesson is a scene with Sofia, Nonna or Marco: a few new words and phrases, the English next to the Italian, and what you missed comes back until it sticks.

Say it, as practice

You speak from the first lesson. It never blocks you, and if you can’t talk right now, you type. No streaks to keep, no buzzers.

Then understand it on its own

The free stories and songs are slow Italian with no English: the same family, the same village. Following one is how you know it worked.

Why this method works

It’s not a hunch. Meaning first, words met again until they stick, speaking as practice, and stories that give it all a reason: Sofia is built on decades of language research, from Krashen to Nation.

See the science

The method — why this works Blog — notes on learning Italian