Learn Italian through stories
Start learning Italian free — the easy way for beginners. With comprehensible input, you meet new words inside warm, slow stories with Sofia in the village of Dozza, then prove you understood. Understand real Italian from day one — no grammar drills, no flashcards of stock photos.
What you’ll learn (A1, for beginners)
Start from zero. Each topic comes from a story, so you meet it in context — then prove you understood.
Greetings & introductions
Say who you are, where you’re from, and meet the family.
Numbers 1–100
Count, tell prices, and build numbers instead of memorising them.
Family & people
madre, padre, fratello, sorella — and where everyone lives.
The bar & breakfast
caffè, pane, biscotti — order and chat over a slow morning.
The market & shopping
Buy food stall by stall, ask prices, a little friendly bargaining.
Telling the time
The hours of the day — “apre alle otto”, seven in the morning.
Everyday objects
Set the table: plates, glasses, forks, knives, spoons.
Likes & preferences
mi piace / non mi piace — say what you like and what you don’t.
Italian stories & songs
Every long-format Italian story and song — watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab), then practise in the app.
Stories
Songs (filastrocche)
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🇮🇹 Quando manca qualcosa · #6 · Cooking with Nonna (A1)
Episode 6 — "Quando manca qualcosa." Sofia's first morning cooking alongside Nonna Elena at the trattoria. They unpack, they start the prep — and then something's missing (an ingredient that just isn't there). No pani…
Buongiorno, Sofia · #1
Episode 1 — Sofia wakes in Dozza and, over coffee, bread and biscotti in Nonna’s kitchen, introduces herself, her studies, her family and her cat. Slow, clear comprehensible input.
La trattoria di Nonna · #2
Episode 2 — Seven in the morning. Sofia and Nonna Elena wait outside the trattoria, then set six places for the day, counting out plates, glasses, forks, knives and spoons one by one.
Buongiorno da New York · #3
Episode 3 — A Sunday family video call: Lucia and Roberto answer from New York, Marco joins from Milan. Names, ages, where everyone lives and what they do.
Contiamo fino a cento! · #4
Episode 4 — Sofia counts with you from one to one hundred: the teens, the full tens and everything in between. The episode that completes the channel’s number arc.
Al mercato · #5
Episode 5 — With Nonna’s list and money, Sofia shops the Dozza market alone, stall by stall: vegetables, the butcher, the fish, prices and a little friendly bargaining.
🇮🇹 La cucina di nonna 🎵 Italian Songs for Beginners (A1)
"La cucina di nonna" — the closing song of Episode 6, and the channel's first slow cantautore-style filastrocca. A quiet love-letter to a kitchen: the bread, the garlic, the salt, the smell of a morning cooked the sam…
🇮🇹 Quasi! 🎵 Italian Songs for Beginners (A1)
"Quasi!" — the near-miss song from Episode 6. The frittata flip that almost lands: "Quasi… quasi… QUASI!" One word — quasi (almost) — turned into a way to laugh off any small slip and try again. The dropped phone, the…
🇮🇹 Tre cose, una mattina 🎵 Italian Songs for Beginners (A1)
"Tre cose, una mattina" — the improvisation song from Episode 6. Nonna's calm working-morning rhythm: when the plan changes, you cook what you have. The "manca X → uso Y" substitution mechanic, sung until it sticks —…
Sono Sofia
The anchor song from Episode 1 — Sofia introduces herself: where she’s from, what she studies, Nonna Elena, her cat Micio, breakfast in the kitchen.
Caffè, pane, biscotti
Nonna Elena’s morning-kitchen song from Episode 1: breakfast, the trattoria, and counting biscotti uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque.
La mia famiglia
The family song from Episode 1 — madre, padre, fratello, sorella, figlia, casa: Lucia and Roberto in America, Marco in Milano, Sofia in Dozza.
Apre alle otto
The title song from Episode 2 — seven in the morning outside the trattoria, hand in hand, waiting for the door that opens at eight.
Sei piatti
Nonna’s table-setting song from Episode 2: six plates, glasses, forks, knives, spoons and napkins, named one by one.
Dieci dita
Sofia’s playful counting song from Episode 2 — one to ten, finger by finger: uno, due, tre… nove, dieci, dieci dita!
Piacere, mi chiamo...
The introductions song from Episode 3 — name, surname, age, where each person lives and what work they do, family member by family member.
Lontana e vicina
The closing song of Episode 3 — Nonna reflects on a family scattered across continents, near and far, after the video call ends.
La famiglia del tre
The number-families song from Episode 4: every number belongs to a family — tre → tredici → trenta — so you can build numbers instead of memorising them.
Fino a cento
The closing song of Episode 4 — the by-tens climb from zero to one hundred: dieci, venti, trenta… cento!
Quanto costa?
The shopping song from Episode 5 — asking prices, a little friendly bargaining and paying at the market: "Quanto costa? Dieci euro!"
Mi piace, non mi piace
The preferences song from Episode 5 — choosing at the fruit stall: what Sofia likes and doesn’t, and the colours of the fruit.
Il mio mercato
The closing song of Episode 5 — a tender little love-letter to the market: its colours, its smells and the familiar faces at every stall.
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