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Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video


Book cover of Beginner's Ukrainian by Yuri Shevchuk.
​​Ideal for those new to Italian, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video teaches both written and spoken Italian using modern pedagogy and engaging audio and video.

Follow the adventures of Chiara and Luca! Chiara is an American visiting Italy for the first time and Luca is her tour guide. Across the book's 14 units, they visit eight Italian cities from Rome up to Milan and down to Sicily. Food, family, art, history, fashion and romance await them. Join Chiara and Luca for an Italian language and culture avventura!

The audio files on this page follow the book's 14 units.  Each track is marked with a headphones icon in the textbook.

Each Unit below contains audio clips that correspond to the dialogues and lessons in Units 1-14 of Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video. You can listen directly from this page or download a .zip file of all the audio drills of a given lesson in mp3 format by clicking ''Download Audio Files." 

There is also a companion YouTube channel for the book which features actors speaking all the audio:
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Beginner's Italian YOUTUBE channel

Beginner's Italian -  Audio Files Playlist and Downloads

Unità 1​
Unità 1 -  Download Audio Files
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Unità 2
Unità 2 - Download Audio Files
Unità ​3
Unità 3 - Download Audio Files
Unità ​4
Unità 4 - Download Audio Files
Unità ​5
Unità 5 - Download Audio Files
Unità ​6
Unità 6 - Download Audio Files
Unità ​7
Unità 7 - Download Audio Files
Unità 8
Unità 8 - Download Audio Files
Unità 9
Unità 9 -  Download Audio Files
Unità 10
Unità 10 - Download Audio Files
Unità 11
Unità 11 - Download Audio Files
Unità 12
Unità 12 - Download Audio Files
Unità 13
Unità 13 - Download Audio Files
Unità 14
Unità 14 -  Download Audio Files

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Tom Means
@BeginnersItalian

Italian professor.

VOICE TALENT in Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video

Headshot of Ruslan Batytsky

Ilenia Vitolo
​@Its.IleniaVit

Playing the role of Chiara.
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Antonio Benina
@ItalianTeacherTony

Playing the role of Luca.
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Lisa Licini
@theItalianLizard

Pronunciation assistance.
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Alessandro Frusciantem
​@Lets.Be.Italians

Pronunciation assistance.
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Simone Pollastri
@SimonePols

Pronunciation assistance.

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