There are several podcasts for people looking to learn Italian from scratch. As beginners often struggle to understand even slow Italian, almost all these podcasts come with a paid subscription tier ...

Busuu is a solid option for learning Italian. It’s a community app with a bunch of various lessons by members of the community. Italian lessons include vocabulary and grammar stuff as well as audio ...

At 66, I signed up for Italian classes not because I dreamed of Tuscany, but because I needed to prove that my mind was still capable of becoming something new — and what I found in that folding chair ...

The first words I learned in Italian were gamba di legno, or wooden leg, for which Benito Mussolini and Walt Disney are to blame: After the war, my mother, who was fluent in Italian, had been involved ...