Continue Your Italian Learning Journey with Structured Lessons and Community Support

so now you know a little bit of Italian and you've taken the time to understand basically how the language Works you've learned a ton of really useful things and now you want more right you want to really learn Italian all the way to fluency ideally and you're wondering is there a place that I can go to and not only find the information that is gonna guide me and tell me how things work but also a place where I can ask questions where I can get the help I need a place where I can practice where I can connect with other people doing the same thing and all those amazing things and I am here to tell you the secret how thousands of people I know managed to learn to communicate in Italian and this

video is for you to help you accomplish the same goal so welcome to a video where I tell you where you can learn Italian the way you've been learning during this series and that is with it limit easy on our all access unlimited Italian platform then I don't really talk about too much but it's amazing and you should check it out so now that you've watched all of the lessons in this free mini course that we put together and we've given you a kind of a shorter version of the main topics I want to invite you to go and check out beginner Italian level one which is the

first course that you will probably take once you join a platform as a beginner you can join eat limit easy at any level of Italian that you may already have but I'm going to introduce you to the platform assuming that you are a beginner means that maybe even you've already studied for six months but you don't feel confident enough to call yourself somebody who can chit chat any talent and then to us you will be a beginner and you will access from beginner Italian level one which is the first course that you will encounter in our selection of courses when you start beginner Italian level 1 you will see how well-structured our choruses are that divided into units this particular course has 14 units each unit has a number of lessons

around 20 so all in all this course has 150 lessons and around 60 hours of training now the reason I'm mentioning this is not because bigger is better but when it comes to learning your first foreign language bigger is better in the sense that more explanation more time for you to digest the you know how different the language is the Italian language in your case and so what we've done is we really take you by the hand and take the time to have you understand everything that you need to understand not memorize pretty much anything but just understand it so that it becomes second nature over time as you're progressing through the course and that is why we have structured the courses the way we have each unit tends

to address a couple of big grammar points you know maybe the conjugation of a verb maybe prepositions are something big that you need to understand how it works in Italian and then there are resources to practice what you've learned in terms of the grammar side of things and then there's a third component that most courses don't have which is the practice of the Italian language per se and so we have things like dictation exercises or Comprehension exercises where you hear me speak something in Italian and then we ask you questions you know to see if you understood but we do things like we give you an article and then ask you comprehension questions it's all there in a single place something that I

really enjoy and our students do to other dictation exercises because you didn't think that you need them until you do them and then of course we talk about grammar we talk about pronunciation A lot and we give you tips on how you can become a good speaker of Italian or a good understander of Italian at the bottom of each lesson we give you a very easy button that will take you to the forums where you can find a place to ask questions specific to the lesson that you've just watched you can ask questions and you know we jump in and help you out other students have already asked questions so you can find their answers or you can help each other all right here we've also decided to include lessons on vocabulary but not just any vocabulary

vocabulary that we feel would be useful to you and we help you memorize the words so that you can recall what they are instead of just learning them and then we also have quizzes that are self-correcting with no pressure there are no grades no points no failure or anything it's just a way for you to check your knowledge and we've done something pretty amazing that at the end of each quiz you can find an explanation as to why that was the correct answer or you know potential that you didn't get right and you can also print that so that you can put together a little memory book of all the explanations of all the questions something that is worth pointing out is that each lesson each grammar lesson is

accompanied by a really detailed PDF that not only summarizes what I said in the lesson so that you can read it through in just in a few pages but it actually expands on some points that I may not have made in the video that we feel that you should know about the PDF also has a list of all the examples used in the lessons and it's a great resource to put together as you progress so that the end of the course you actually have a little grammar book that works with you because it follows our style when you're done with beginner Italian level one what happens well you get a certificate of completion that just you can print and you can have there so that you know and you can tell the world that

you have completed beginner Italian level one but now you can move on to beginner Italian level two and that is why I believe that it remedies is the best solution for you to learn Italian because it's an all access platform what that means is that you're not actually purchasing a course you are getting access to the whole universe the whole ecosystem that is made up of a number of things including courses of course you will always be taking a main course in your case will be a beginner level one and when you progress it'll be a beginner Italian level two so of course what's the use of having access to intermediate level 4 when you are already a beginner I'll tell you in a minute why it's great that you have

access to everything because we have a tool that finds the right lesson for you as you're learning something you might become curious about oh I wonder how this specific thing works or I was watching this thing in Italian or I was talking to some Italian and I said this and I don't understand I looked it up Wikipedia didn't help YouTube was totally useless in helping me because they were explaining it to me in Italian I need manu's answer to this having access to all the levels is really useful it's also useful once you progress to a higher level then you can always go back to the previous level to quickly check something you know review a topic that you I'm not sure you know

you remember well and it's always there for you after beginners and level one you will move on to beginner Italian level two how many levels do we have well we've done something pretty unique it is a limit easy we created this Flagship program that it's called from zero to Italian because it gets you started you know with the assumption that you know nothing about language learning and Italian specifically and we teach you that beginner Italian level one and then we deepen your knowledge we give you more skills more ability to almost you know to express yourself any talent to understand you will develop every skill that you need to be a confident speaker of Italian not just the grammar but what we've done

is we've divided this into eight levels so there are two beginner levels then there are four intermediate levels and finally two advanced level courses why have we done this when most other platforms or even Academia usually talks about lower and upper Beginner lower and upper intermediate lower and upper Advanced so with that six why do we have eight well what I have observed as a teacher for so many years is that most other programs base your level only on the knowledge of grammar and so they would say if you have learned the imperfecto or the future tense or the conditional tense or the subjunctive then this is your level it never translates into real life applications so many times I've spoken to students

who've been learning Italian for five years 10 years and they in theory they know all the senses but they don't communicate at a level that they would consider Advanced so are they really Advanced probably not so the way I conceived from zero to Talent was a little different we cover all of the grammar topics in the first six courses so two beginner and four intermediate so it is only after you've learned all the grammar that do we consider you an advanced level student and that's when we will teach you how to become more fluid and more fluent you know we'll get into the little nuances and exceptions of the language a little uh phrases that we use in Italian you know becoming most slangy more colloquial and also getting you to

really become a good speaker and so those levels uh will be taught all in Italian mostly because you're already there because you don't have any questions now because you have conquered it as a after beginner level one you'll get into level two and then you move on to the intermediate and other levels but what intermediacy is for you it's not just from zero to Italian we have other courses that you can access because you have unlimited access to everything and so other courses worth mentioning are learn Italian with audio program that is basically an audiobook that we have produced like an audio book that you will you know get from audible but it's created for Learners of Italian

it's a story it's 12 chapters and each chapter is broken down into a number of steps that will take you from having really hard time understanding what is being said because you know it's an active audiobook so with music and sound effects and many speakers and also many accents but by the end of each chapter and all the faces that we put you through then you should be able to understand all of it and so it can take you 12 weeks or 12 months to finish one of those audiobooks but it's there for you we have other courses on Italian immersion how to do immersion so that you become more fluent in Italian we have translational courses yes a whole pronunciation course all included for the same crazy low cost

what else do we have in terms of courses there's a ton of them so let's stop there as you're making progress with the knowledge of design language and your confidence we have created a section on the website that oh my it is unique and it's extremely exciting and useful to you as a learner and that is our Piazza Italia experience this is let's call it our social network but it's not any social network that you could go and post things and then you get hate because ah you made a mistake we have created a very safe place where you can start using Italian you'll be learning and also getting to interact with italianative speakers and other students so let me talk about Piazza Italia so

it's basically a social network that you can use to experiment you can post things in Italian or not if you need help and it's all it's not about grammar it's not about anything like that it's not boring it's an exciting place so you can have a play with this you can share maybe what you been cooking today or maybe your photos of Italy or a little story that happened to you when you're in Italy or just a question that you want other people to address now of course my team and I are on so we post our updates and then you can comment hey well done Mario Bros you know you can share your victories or whatever you want you can also connect with other students right there but also you can create

friendships you can ask for a friendship to a person that you've been talking to and now you have a little group of peers that maybe live in your time zone maybe are going to Italy at the same time as you or maybe are just going through the same course and then you can help each other and you can even jump on video calls where I'll tell you in a minute where you can do that but this is Piazza Talia I love it because it's a casual light-hearted non-academic way of using Italian in a safe environment with no judgment no one cares about your mistakes no one cares if you can't say anything but it's just a place where you can really get started we have a social groups on different topics and something that I want to talk

about is well we have the community group which is the main place you know that's our Facebook you can do whatever you want there you can share whatever you want but we have a group that is dedicated to beginners and so you join it when you're a beginner and then you leave when you're no longer a beginner and the beauty of that group is that it's very specific to beginners and so it's it's even more safety it's even a more welcoming place because really you're in the same boat as everybody else whereas in other social groups on a platform you know you might post something basic and you might get a reply from a student who's way ahead of you which is really helpful but you know maybe you don't want that so you can

post in this in the beginner group part of our Piazza the experience is also the opportunity for you to speak face to face video call with my amazing team the team has been trained to keep the conversation fun very light-hearted on the things that you want to talk about but there are guided conversations where you are encouraged to use the Italian day you have so how does it work well we publish a calendar there's basically a an opportunity every day for students to jump on a video call and these are just zoom calls by now everybody knows how to do Zoom but it's very easy we have instructions for everything um and what happens is that each appointment caters to a different level so you

never find yourself in a room with somebody who's like three levels ahead of you who's super fluent and then you feel intimidated if you're in a video call for beginners you can rest assured that everybody else in that room is kind of around your level and you know it's it's not we're not competing when we're learning a language but I understand the pressure that you would feel if there was somebody who's so much better than you I would feel it and so that's an opportunity that you have to practice Italian verbally visually in real life with real Italians every day all included in your subscription and we also have created what we call La stanza de los studente which is the students room which is another way for you to practice your

Italian so without the presence of the team and you know you can use that room it's it's free for you to use you know if you have uh Connections in Gazette Italia and you want to organize a study session and we give you a place to go and study with other students I just want to plan your holidays together as a subscriber tweets limited easy as part of this engagement that we do with real Italians we do other things like live streams with Manu it could be either a q a where you ask me your questions and I help you out or it could be a an Italian pronunciation practice where I challenge you to unmute yourself and have a go at saying something in Italian and I'll give you feedback we do

a ton of really creative things and we're always coming up with new ideas so that's all included and of course you have access to the recordings of what we do in case you miss it and all of our subscribers also have immediate access to any master class that we do we currently have a couple uh scheduled or happening very soon the first one coming up is on Italian definite articles it's going to be a two-day live experience where you learn how to work but also when you need to use them and when not to use them because that's where most people kind of get lost like when I use it so anyway master classes are also included in your subscription instead of having to pay for a ticket to attend

which is what other people would have to do so it's only good but now as a student of any thing or any language you also want additional resources and that's where the practice section of our website comes in very handy we regularly post probably once a week a new type of activity but also you have access to the library of everything that has been done before so the moment you join you have hundreds of opportunities to practice Italian how there are a number of ways so we have comprehension videos these are videos in Italian that we give you access to we give you a list of vocabulary that we feel is necessary for you to understand it we have comprehension questions so you can work every other day on a comprehension video

we have a ton of old videos plus Wiki publish them like I said but also other people prefer to read and see if they understand something written and then we have articles on all things Italian mostly cultural things about Italy they're simplified articles they're not like a newspaper article for Italians so these are created for you again you get the vocabulary you get the translation you get to really work on your comprehension of the written text also as a subscriber you have access to all the supporting resources for a podcast now we have one of the best podcasts for Learners of Italian Italy it is long name maybe that's not the full name but you know that's what it does it's

100 slower Italian and as a subscriber you have all the PDFs not only you have the audio which obviously is available for free but you also get the PDF of this podcast and any other podcast that we will launch in the future so it's all there for you and what are the podcasts used for well they're useful for listening to Italian and comprehending and you know and make sense of it but it's also a great way for you to improve your pronunciation expand your vocabulary learn fun facts about Italy because we never talk about grammar because you know our approach we use Italian with you to help you become confident in understanding and speaking it but we don't explain things that you need to know in Italian because let's

just wait too crazy and of course you have access to the replays of any live event that we have produced so it's all there under the practice section but there's more no platform created by us it limit is you would be complete with other section on immersion we hammer on the importance of listening to a ton of Italian so that you can become fluent and instead of leaving you all by yourself to go and find stuff to listen to and then you end up listening to the wrong things that actually demotivate you and make you feel better about your Italian we put together a section on a website that has different levels of immersion-ness for you we start with simpler Italian which is a section where

we put videos in Italian that in most cases we've created that are spoken in slower Italian and they come with accurate subtitles and you know and all the things that we do for videos that we produce in Italian we have a section that it's natural Italian and that includes a selection of videos from channels from YouTube that we don't produce because these are channels that Italians produce for Italians but we hand pick them we don't just say go and watch whatever you want on YouTube because that could be difficult we find videos that come with man-made or human-made subtitles so they are mostly accurate not as accurate as our subtitles because we put effort in it but these are videos that have good subtitles and the speakers tend to speak

in a more clear way than most Italians and so you can go there to find the recommendations on individual videos or maybe you can discover a YouTuber that you want to follow that can help you improve your Italian and then we also have access to 24 7 live streaming of radio stations that we handpick and a secret that I'm not going to tell you what it is but it's a live streaming video channel that it's right there that you can just go to that Tab and hear Italian 24 7 if you want but it's Italian that we approve of so you'll love it having access to all of our content and courses is a great benefit but it's also kind of like oh there's so much information so we instead of forcing you to go to each

course and look at the syllabus and find the thing that you're curious about we have created a search engine it's our trademarked not really lesson finder that can really make your life easier no matter what your level is you can go to this search engine and type in the thing that you want to know about it could be something that you've heard it could be um you know maybe like a grammar Point uh some kind of difficult thing that you've come across or it could be something generic because what we've done for this search engine is amazing not only are we going to be able to pop up a lesson that is on a certain topic let's say that you want to oh I'm curious about the passatoprostium I'm

curious about the Italian future tense you just type that and it will give you a list of resources that are lessons practice lessons exercises that have to do with that topic that you're searching so that's that would be for grammar topics but we've done a lot more we've transcribed all of our videos and the search engine goes through the script of what I've said and so if you ever wonder things like crazy things like has Manu ever talked about why Italians drink Sparkling water then you would type that you know Italians sparkling water and then maybe an article would be suggested to your podcast episode or a comprehension exercise that talks about the thing that you were looking for or maybe it's a video that could be on a very different

topic but inside that video I said the things that you were typing the thing that you were searching for and so it's a great little tool that our students are loving we keep improving it we monitor what searches you guys or our students are making and then we improve the results so that we always give you the best result and this is a crazy resource for you to get an explanation that is our style if you like our style and you will love our platform then you will love this tool because it really gets you the answer explained in the way that we do it finally something that it's really important for us at intermed easy is to make sure that it's an easy to use platform so not only is the whole

thing very user friendly it works for mobile it works from any device it's very intuitive we have we do have a lot of sections in the menu but everything is clearly labeled and so you should not really have any issues now when it comes to doubts about what you're learning there's a number of places where you can get help of course we have the forums like I said each lesson goes to a place where you can ask questions specifically about that topic and our team and other students are there to help you social network now of course the social network is not really meant to discuss grammar but you create connections with other students and so if you become friends with somebody who's above your

level you can ask them right so you can private message each other so it's a really good opportunity for you to get your doubts sorted now we have the live streams where you can ask me questions we have the video calls with the Italian team that again are not about grammar it's about speaking but you know if you make a mistake then you can say but why is it wrong and then you'll get an answer there as well so there are many places but when it comes to technical issues like running the platform being a user we made sure that it was super straightforward and so we have tutorials on pretty much anything and we keep building tutorials if you have a question that it's like a technical question we have a database of

articles that explain how to fix a problem so you are in control of everything you can cancel your subscription if you don't want to you don't even have to write to us you can print out your invoices if you need them for tax purposes everything is super straightforward but in case you need help we are always there to help you we have a support help desk that it's amazing it's way better than any Corporation I've ever dealt with I deal with YouTube and Facebook I hope you never need to get help from those but we are there for you and so you anytime you have an issue that you haven't been able to solve it by yourself you create a ticket right from inside your account you get notified when we reply to you and you can see the

entire conversation right there in the ticket and if you have multiple tickets open then you can really keep track of everything we solve any issue we never leave you with frustration and if you get frustrated easily we work with you so that you like us even more so this is what we've put together to help people like you learn Italian the right way and I as a teacher never have to hear the common comment of I've been learning Italian for so long and I still suck that is not you can be fluent in Italian trust us go and check out italymidity.com subscribe it's a crazy low price actually the price of all of this that gives you access to all of our courses plus all of our engagement and

all of our resources and quality of help it's all under the same roof in a very convenient way for what others are charging for a single course on a single topic so go and check it out and I will see you in the next video ciao