Welcome to your A1 Italian course. By the end, you'll be able to handle everyday conversations, talk about your life, and describe your world in Italian with real confidence. You'll build your skills step by step, learn language you can use straight away, and feel more at ease expressing yourself. With Auracle, you will rapidly build towards fluency by speaking constantly and being asked to actively recall words and sentences. This is proven to be essential for language acquisition. Let's get started!

In this first deck you will be mastering Italian Pronunciation. We'll cover the essential sounds you need to speak Italian clearly and confidently. Don't worry about getting everything perfect at first. The goal is to understand how the sounds work. Remember, you can always replay the correct pronunciation of any word by tapping the answer button on the deck page.

Let's start with the vowels. Italian has five pure, crisp vowel sounds, which are much more consistent than in English. A is 'ah' like in 'father' and can be heard in the Italian word for house: casa. E is 'eh' like in 'bed', and can be heard in the Italian word for good: bene. Let's try these.

Well done! Now for some more sounds. I is 'ee' like in 'machine', this can be heard in the Italian word for books: libri. O is 'oh' like in 'more' and can be heard in the word 'sono' which means 'I am'. And U makes an 'oo' sound, as heard in the Italian word for the number one, 'uno'.