Vocabulary & flashcards
Word decks for every unit — flip the cards, grade yourself honestly, and spaced repetition does the rest.
Beginner
More decks land with each new tappa.
Vocabulary in the course
The course teaches words in 96 vocabulary lessons across 48 tappe, from A1 to C2. These are the word areas each tappa covers. For ready-made sentences, see 164 basic Italian phrases taken from the A1 vocabulary lessons.
A1 · Beginner
- Tappa 1 First contact — greetings, personal information, countries and nationalities
- Tappa 2 People and things — everyday objects, colours, size and basic qualities
- Tappa 3 Family and home — family, rooms and furniture, age and appearance
- Tappa 4 Everyday life — daily actions, work and study, frequency
- Tappa 5 Time and appointments — time and dates, appointments, weekly schedules
- Tappa 6 Food and café — food and drink, menus and prices, quantities
- Tappa 7 Around town — places in town, transport, directions
- Tappa 8 A day in Italy — A1 survival language, food and time, city and personal information
A2 · Elementary
- Tappa 1 Yesterday — past events, weekend activities, time markers
- Tappa 2 Then and now — childhood, school memories, past habits
- Tappa 3 What happened? — incidents, emotions, narrative sequence
- Tappa 4 People and relationships — relationships, invitations, help and favours
- Tappa 5 Travel and accommodation — tickets, hotels, travel services
- Tappa 6 Plans and weather — weather, holidays, events
- Tappa 7 Health and services — body and health, pharmacy, shops and services
- Tappa 8 Everyday choices — containers, household items, shopping choices
B1 · Intermediate
- Tappa 1 Stories and turning points — travel problems, turning points, emotions
- Tappa 2 Requests, wishes and advice — requests, wishes, customer service
- Tappa 3 Opinions and reactions — culture, reviews, opinion and reaction
- Tappa 4 Society in comparison — society, city life, trends
- Tappa 5 Work and study — education, skills, recruitment
- Tappa 6 Solving problems together — customer service, repairs, errands
- Tappa 7 Connected discourse — environment, public life, community proposals
- Tappa 8 Independent Italian — B1 retrieval, independent travel, discussion
B2 · Upper Intermediate
- Tappa 1 Predictions and evidence — science, technology, future trends
- Tappa 2 Real and unreal choices — decisions, economics, opportunity
- Tappa 3 Regrets and alternatives — regret, responsibility, consequence
- Tappa 4 News and reported voices — news, sources, misinformation
- Tappa 5 Precision in description — art, architecture, sensory detail
- Tappa 6 How systems work — institutions, production, procedures
- Tappa 7 Compact Italian — research, synthesis, briefing language
- Tappa 8 Real spoken Italian — spoken interaction, discourse markers, idiomatic chunks
C1 · Advanced
- Tappa 1 Time and viewpoint — memory, sequence, interpretation
- Tappa 2 Nuanced argument — ethics, policy, evaluation
- Tappa 3 Formal Italian — administration, professional procedure, formal correspondence
- Tappa 4 Synthesis and mediation — research, attribution, source evaluation
- Tappa 5 Words and connotation — synonyms, collocations, connotation
- Tappa 6 Italian narrative — history, biography, narrative style
- Tappa 7 Voices of Italy — region, identity, social language
- Tappa 8 C1 portfolio — C1 retrieval, symposium language, portfolio revision
C2 · Mastery
- Tappa 1 Focus and information structure — emphasis, rhetorical framing, public discourse
- Tappa 2 Complex syntax with control — abstract policy, scientific reasoning, text cohesion
- Tappa 3 Specialist Italian — terminology, specialist collocations, definitions
- Tappa 4 Literary and creative Italian — literary criticism, imagery, narrative voice
- Tappa 5 Rhythm, punctuation and editing — editing, text architecture, rhetorical pace
- Tappa 6 Idiom, metaphor and connotation — advanced collocations, metaphor, semantic fields
- Tappa 7 Pragmatics, irony and humour — stance, humour, interpersonal nuance
- Tappa 8 Mastery and mediation — flexible C2 repertoire, mediation, audience design