Italian FREE 24/7 Language Learning

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I am Italian, but I didn't know any any Italian so I tried this app. But, to understand the app, you need to learn a little Italian before you start this app. It has quizzes, but it doesn't teach you how to speak Italian, just how to translate. So I was all out of place in this app when I tried a quiz. I would not use this app again.

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Basics more useful than Duolingo!!

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The structure of this applicaton is good, but it has two significant problems. First, there are big mistakes in the answers provided by the application, and these are very basic mistakes. For example, the answer given by the application for "can you recommend a good ---?" is "posso consigliarti un buon". As even a first semester student of Italain knows, "posso" means "I can" or "can I", not "can you". The right answer is, of course, puo (or puoi) mi consigliare un buon? I have run into several such basic errors in just 15 minutes of using this application. I think the author does not know much about Italian. The second problem is that the method uses translation from English into Italian, a core problem with most language instruction in the U.S. Translation is poison for learning to speak a language. They need to use pictures or describe the situation in Italian, similar to high quality language instruction courses such as Berlitz, Rosetta Stone. This application is not worth anything--but it is free.

This is helping me so much in learning Italian. I just started studying the language last month and I was searching for a way of studying that would keep me motivated. I think this is it. It has a variety of methods and is highly interactive. It has progressively harder quizes and games so you start out with the easy ones and finish with the tough write in quiz. It saves the current state so you can exit out of the app at any time and return later to the exact same position. This makes it very convenient to use your spare minutes through out the day. The scoring system lets you keep track of your progress. It's really a fantastic way to learn !!!

I'm 2nd generation Italian, but because my father was American, I spoke mostly English. The Italian I speak with my family is Southern, and it's mostly slang. So when I had to go to Italy, I thought it best to brush up on real Italian, lest I be ridiculed for my horrendous speech! This app was perfect, as the learning voice - I can tell you - is authentically Italian. The spelling game was a little difficult to figure out as there are no instructions, but once I got it it was all downhill. Also, I can't tell you how much better it is to have an app instead of a translation book - you look like an idiot walking around with one!