Late one chilly evening last September, I excused myself from a small group huddled around a campfire to peck at and mumble into my phone. No way was a camping trip going to make me miss my Italian ...

As thousands of foreign students arrive at universities across Italy, The Local speaks to one linguist to find out the best way they can learn the language. For every foreign student that masters the ...

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My wife and I moved to Italy in 2019 and I knew I'd have to improve my skills with Italian. But when I got there, I had a hard time learning the language. After adopting our dog, people were ...

Italian is growing in popularity as a foreign language around the world - but why the appeal? We asked our readers, whose reasons for learning the language ranged from family old and new to an ...

New York City is the one place in the whole America that is home to the largest population of Italian Americans, so we wanted to make sure you could connect to the city’s roots by taking on one of ...

A professor has used video games to teach Italian, allowing his students to master two semesters worth of language acquisition through one intensive class for students new to the Italian language. In ...