Italian from scratch

Sounds and greetings, then people, places, the present tense, family, food and the day, on through the past, pronouns, the future, comparisons, the conditional and the subjunctive. Each lesson brings a dialogue, its vocabulary and the grammar behind it.

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1.1The alphabet and its soundsReady
1.2Stress and written accents
1.3Hello and goodbye
1.4Tu or Lei
1.5What's your name?
1.6Where are you from?
1.7Numbers to twenty
1.8Please, thank you, sorry