Ascolta bene! Italian Listening Practice
Episodes
Luciano Pavarotti - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tu per tu con il Maestro: uno dei più grandi tenori della storia, che ha portato l'opera anche negli stadi. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Dow...
Il caffè - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ci prendiamo un caffè? Scopriamo la storia di un altro simbolo dello stile di vita italiano. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcri...
La Vespa - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
La Vespa - un simbolo dell'Italia e della dolce vita. Ascolta e rispondi alle mie domande.Download the transcript & additional listening conte...
La Nutella - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nutella: una storia italiana. Origini e particolarità della merenda più amata dagli italiani. Listen and answer my questions!Download the transcript...
Grandi navi a Venezia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ascolta e rispondi! Parliamo delle grandi navi da crociera che dal 2021 non possono più passare davanti a piazza San Marco a Venezia.Download the fre...
Samantha Cristoforetti - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ascolta e rispondi! Parliamo di Astrosamantha, la prima astronauta donna europea a diventare comandante della ISS nel 2022.Download the free transcrip...
La pizzeria di Sophia Loren - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ascolta e rispondi: parliamo di una pizzeria molto speciale aperta nel 2021.Download the free transcript and get additional listening content on Patre...
A2 Italian Listening Practice - La festa di compleanno
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oggi è il compleanno di Sandra. Quanti anni compie? E tu, quando compi gli anni? Hai passato gli "anta"? Ascolta e rispondi!Download the transcript &...
A2 Italian Listening Practice: l'estate in Italia
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Estate e vacanze in Italia: did you visit Italy during the summer? Listen to three new dialogues.Get the transcript and additional listening content f...
A2 Italian Listening Practice: il Carnevale di Venezia
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Il Carnevale di Venezia - Let's go to Venice Carnival together!Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: tu o Lei?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tu o Lei? Informal & formal conversational Italian. Learn when to use the polite form in Italian.Get the transcript and additional liste...
A2 Italian Listening Practice - 5 indovinelli
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen carefully: can you guess what I am describing in Italian?Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Indovina la regione
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three dialogues about three Italian regions: can you guess what they are?Transcript and additional listening content available on Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Passato, presente, futuro
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Passato, presente, futuro: three dialogues about Artificial Intelligence, electric vehicles, and Italian-Americans.Transcript and additional...
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Il giro del mondo
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Il giro del mondo: travel around the world with me and guess all the places we are going to.Transcript and additional listening content available on ...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 15
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lavoro e vacanza: three new dialogues about work and holiday, with a touch of humour.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening co...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 14
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sì, viaggiare! Aereo, treno o traghetto? In this episode we talk about traveling and means of transport.Get the transcript & translation and add...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 13
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Piccoli problemi quotidiani! Let's learn how to talk about little everyday issues, like a delayed train, a problem with a hotel room, or a steep ...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 12
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In these three new dialogues, our characters discuss Italian films and TV shows. Can you understand what they are talking about? Have you seen any of...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 11
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three new dialogues in Italian for you: today we introduce pronominal verbs like fregarsene, farcela, prendersela, and we learn their conjugation. Lis...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 10
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four new dialogues in authentic conversational Italian for you. Today's special topic is comparatives and superlatives. Listen and answer the ques...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 9
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tavola! The subject of this easy listening practice is food! Listen and answer the questions.Get the transcript & translation and additional lis...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 8
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In questo episodio, Leonardo, Viola, Sandra e Michele parlano della loro casa. Let's talk about houses! Listen and answer my questions in Italian....
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 7
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oggi prendiamo il treno e andiamo a Venezia! Listen to 5 dialogues; this time my questions are all in Italian. Pause the podcast and answer out loud!G...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 6
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
È arrivata l'estate! Summer, heat, holidays, reservations... Listen to the dialogues and answer the questions.You can download the transcri...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 5
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
These new dialogues include words & expressions from previous episodes: weather, restaurant bookings, family, pharmacy, holidays, food and coffee....
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 4
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Qual è la ricetta della pizza Margherita? Chi va a fare la spesa? Cosa mangiamo oggi? This episode is all about food, cooking, and grocery shopping. ...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 3
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to ads from Italian TV: we use the same vocabulary in our dialogues. Listen and answer the questions!Download the transcript with translation a...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 2
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enrich your vocabulary and improve your listening skills with our targeted Italian listening practice! Today we have TV ads in Italian - our dialogues...
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 1
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enrich your vocabulary and improve your listening skills with our targeted Italian listening practice! Listen carefully and try to answer the question...
Italian Listening Practice for Total Beginners
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learning Italian from scratch? Listen to 50 easy sentences grouped by subject or sound. We begin with introductions, then we move on to words with the...
Viva Verdi! Musica e storia a Parma
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Giuseppe Verdi: the most beloved opera composer of all times. This year the Verdi Festival in Parma opens with a special production of Un ballo in mas...
Italiani si diventa - Lo ius soli
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcell Jacobs just became the world's fastest man at the Tokyo Olympics. Despite his name, he is 100% Italian. Today we listen to his voice and we ta...
Verso l'infinito e oltre con AstroSamantha
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let's listen to Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as she describes her experience of flying to space, living on the space station, and coming b...
Venice is a fish... and we caught her!
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Venezia è un pesce - Venice is a fish. It's also an upside-down forest, perched on top of wooden piles. Let's discover this amazing city from a diffe...
Non ci capiamo! Italian accents & dialects
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So, do we all understand each other easily throughout Italy? In this episode we discuss Italian accents & dialects (or better, languages!), and we...
Il docile idioma - Italian as the language of music
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Concerto, opera, soprano, pianoforte... all over the world, people use Italian words when talking about music, and the influence of Italian is particu...
My Brilliant Friend - Italian as a way out and up
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Ferrante's L'amica geniale is written in perfect Italian, but her characters speak the Neapolitan dialect most of the time. Here we discuss what...
L'italiano medio: la tragicomica epopea del ragionier Ugo Fantozzi
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our exploration of Italianness continues with an iconic character of the 1970s: Paolo Villaggio's Fantozzi. Not just comedy, but also social criticism...
Capire gli italiani - Understanding Italians
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be Italian? Let's find out together. Today we’d like to read with you two passages from the beginning of Beppe Severgnini’s b...