I just downloaded Claude and added prompts so that I can use it as an AI tutor. Mainly for conversational/speaking practice.
While I like it, the accent is not Italian. It says Pair-fa-voray instead of per favore 😂. Does anyone use Claude for Italian?
Ciao a tutti!
A group of us have started a conversation group for Italian learners and speakers. Benvenuti, we’d like more friends!
We have a Reddit Group text chat, and meet 1-2 times weekly via video chat to practice Italian speaking in a relaxed, supportive environment. We have italian beginners, intermediates and some more advanced...don’t be afraid 🙂.
To be clear - this is a free community group run by learners for learners. No promotion 🙂, no cost, no sales pitch or services. Just a weekly chat with friends (I believe this meets forum rules). Many, but not all of us are in US.
We’re looking for committed learners who want to practice speaking regularly, make mistakes, help each other when stuck, and make it a consistent habit. Our request is weekly participation in the text or video chats.
Interested DM me. A presto!
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Abbiamo un gruppo di conversazione per studenti e parlanti di italiano. Benvenuti, ci piacerebbe fare amici nuove!
Abbiamo una chat di gruppo su Reddit e ci incontriamo 1-2 volte a settimana in videochiamata per esercitarci a parlare italiano in rilassato e accogliente. Abbiamo studenti principianti, intermedi e anche più avanzati...non avere paura 🙂.
Questo è un gruppo gratuito (completto) gestito da studenti per studenti. Nessuna promozione 🙂, gratuito, nessuna offerta di servizie. Solo una chat settimanale tra amici (credo che questo rispetti le regole del forum).
Cerchiamo studenti motivati che vogliano esercitarsi a parlare regolarmente, commettere errori, aiutarsi a vicenda quando si incontrano difficoltà e farne un'abitudine costante. **Il requisito è la partecipazione attiva alle chat o testuali e video.
siete interessati, dammi un DM.
Moderatori: se questo post necessita di modifiche per essere conforme alle regole del subreddit, fatemelo sapere: voglio assicurarmi che sia pienamente in linea con le linee guida della community.
Siamo pronti?
My wife just started learning Italian and doesn’t have a reddit, so she asked me to ask for your help.
She says the whole section she just read is on how the article is used for possessive nouns (unless family). If that’s the case, she’s confused why number 3 doesn’t have the article.
I am hoping to find someone to be a learning partner for my mom. She’s very fluent (English first) but likes to keep up on her practice. Maybe if someone is mid-level fluent and needs some help here and there but can carry on a conversation to keep her challenged, please reach out. She’s in her 60s, retired Marine, goes to Italy all the time, she a chef professor (teaches culinary school), loves to cook and bake, she’s pretty well rounded actually now that I’m thinking out a list here, haha. Let me know! :)
Ciao, my biggest Italian gap right now is not grammar, it is answering out loud without freezing. I’m A2-ish, and CEFR says A2 should manage simple routine exchanges, but my brain does not always agree. Reading and Easy Italian videos are improving, but there are basically no Italian speakers near me.
What seems to help is giving each tool one job. Duolingo/Busuu for basic structure, Anki for words I keep forgetting, Pimsleur or shadowing for rhythm, YouTube/podcasts for listening. I’ve also been using Issen for 5-10 minutes when I need to answer out loud without a real person waiting.
I’m usually skeptical of random AI stuff, especially when even Digg is coming back as an AI news thing , but voice replies are one use case that feels practical to me. My tiny test: record 60 seconds about my day while the moka pot heats, replay it, write down 3 phrases where I froze, then repeat once.
After about two weeks, I still make gender/preposition mistakes, but there are fewer long pauses and more automatic phrases like “stamattina ho fatto...” or “poi sono andato...”. For people around A2/B1 with no native speakers nearby, how are you practicing actual speaking? italki, exchanges, shadowing, talking to yourself?
I took Spanish classes for a few months a couple of years ago, never got far, then dropped it.
Now I'm learning Italian from scratch and I'm genuinely having some problems.
The words are similar enough that my brain keeps pulling Spanish instead of Italian. It's so funny, because most people say knowing a similar language helps. Not for me though.
How about you guys? Knowing a similar language helps or makes things harder for you?
I’ve been listening to italian podcasts for months and i can understand almost everything now, which is great. but the second I try to form a sentence myself, my brain just stalls and i forget basic grammar. I'm leaving for an exchange soon and testing other ways to stop my brain from freezing like like anki and praktika, which are helping but if you I need to get to the SPEAKING part, so please tell me what's helped you.
Hello Italian learners! I saw a post in the other Italian learning sub recently that got a lot of attention asking where to find a good list of content to learn Italian.
I run a website called Lengualytics. It's a user-sourced library of over 18K comprehensible input resources over 11 languages. In Italian, we have just about 1K resources, and the library is constantly growing.
You can filter by difficulty, dialect, topic, creator, duration, search, and much more. You can also generate transcripts for videos under 20 minutes, and point-and-click the transcript to rehear specific sentences etc.
It also gives you a structured way to track your time and comprehension as you grow. You get a roadmap, you can see your analytics, compete on leaderboards, win badges, use coins you get from watching input to buy avatar costumes--really trying to bring that Duolingo feel to input-based learning!
Every core feature is free, and you don't even need to be signed up to look around. Thanks for having me on the sub and I hope this helps you guys out!
Check out the resources here.
PS: The site is fully translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and French for non-English users.
Hi everyone! My friend and I wanted to share a small project we've been building — a free bilingual website with short stories, poems, and rhymes in English and Italian, side by side.
The idea is simple: you read in both languages at once, no exercises, no quizzes. Just narratives. The meaning fills in around the edges as you follow the story.
We currently have around... 50 pieces!
One question for this community: do the stories feel like the right level for intermediate learners? We'd love to hear what you think! Everything is free, no registration required.
Grazie! Happy to answer any questions.
Ciao a tutti!😊Ho 31 anni e sono un’insegnante di italiano certificata e madrelingua.
Ho alcuni posti disponibili e sono alla ricerca di nuovi studenti. Offro lezioni di italiano per conversazione e grammatica, adatte a diversi livelli.
Le lezioni possono essere di 60 minuti oppure di 30 minuti, in base alle tue esigenze.
Chi è interessato o vuole maggiori informazioni mi scriva in privato😊