The world of Italian language - a short introduction

There are about 58 million people world wide who speak Italian as first language. Especially in the European Union Italian language plays an important role. Italian language looks back on a fascinating culture with three millennia having cooked up a tasty cuisine and an impressive history of architecture, literature, painting and sculpting.

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The following pages aim to give a short introduction to Italian language. Find out fascinating Italian language facts, a short summery of important Italian grammar characteristics and Italian varieties or dialects.

Learning a foreign language is fun, but it has it pitfalls. Many of those can be avoided by taking the royal road to learning Italian and studying Italian directly where it is spoken!