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Take a free test, then self-study or private classes.

  1. Mark your learning goals

    Your course adapts to your goals and work schedule.

  2. Access your course program

  3. Book optional private classes

    Contact a teacher for a first trial class.

Course details

Prepare for the CELI exam with a personal and native teacher

Who is this course for?

  • You are planning to work or relocate to Italy.
  • You need a smart and efficient course, not generic lessons.
  • Designed for busy professionals.
  • Our CELI preparation program is focused and personalized to your goals.
  • No time wasted, just real progress with expert guidance and proven results.

What you will learn

  • You will be completely prepared to pass the CELI exam at your selected level, from beginner (A1) to mastery (C2).
  • Speaking: Practice authentic spoken tasks following CELI exam criteria in everyday and formal contexts.
  • Listening: Improve comprehension with timed and official CELI audio materials.
  • Reading: Learn effective strategies for skimming and understanding texts.
  • Writing: Master structured writing tasks with coherence and accuracy suitable for your CEFR level.
  • Exam Skills: Get exam-ready with mock CELI tests and feedback from experienced instructors.

This course in short

  • Custom plan: Your CELI-certified tutor will assess your level and craft a study plan tailored to you.
  • Ongoing support: Receive personalized corrections and constructive feedback at every step.
  • CELI-focused preparation: Lessons and exercises are designed around CELI formats and scoring.

Pricing

Start in the learning portal. Add a teacher when you are ready.

Self-study

Learn whenever you want, 30 minutes a day.

From €1.50/month

  • Progress tracking
  • Printed book for offline study
  • Audio, video and AI corrections
Start self-study
  • 1 month €14.99 €14.99/month
  • 3 months €24.00 €8.00/month Save €20.97 (47%)
  • 6 months €34.50 €5.75/month Save €55.44 (62%)
  • 12 months €45.48 €3.79/month Save €134.40 (75%)
  • 48 months €72.00 €1.50/month Save €647.52 (90%)

Course schedule

Study when you want, and book a teacher around your work.

  • Self-study 24/7, online and offline
  • Classes around your work schedule
  • No fixed group times
  • Book a class when you are ready

Curriculum

Exam-focused modules plus CEFR self-study levels in the learning portal. Pick the level that matches you now.

The Certificato di Conoscenza della Lingua Italiana (CELI) is an official certification issued by the Università per Stranieri di Perugia through its CVCL centre. It is recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and carries an ALTE “Q Mark” quality label.

Grammar

  • Regular verbs and common irregular verbs
  • Definite and indefinite articles
  • Personal subject pronouns
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  • Gender and number of nouns
  • Prepositions
  • Basic prepositions of place and time
  • Basic connectors
  • Reflexive verbs

Practice and situations

  • Greetings, goodbyes
  • Personal introductions
  • Talking about time and routine
  • Ordering food, shopping
  • Asking/giving directions
  • Dialogues for shopping, food, directions
  • Family and daily situations

Grammar 

  • Imperfetto
  • Futuro semplice and present conditional tenses
  • Hypothetical structures
  • Imperatives: regular, irregular and negative
  • Comparisons: regular/irregular, superlatives
  • Expressing cause and purpose
  • Impersonal constructions
  • Possessive adjectives and pronouns
  • Advanced conjunctions
  • Introduction to the subjunctive
  • Indirect speech with the past tense

Practice and situations

  • Talking about oneself (family, job, routine, interests)
  • Writing short texts: informal letters, postcards, brief descriptions
  • Completing short narrative or informative texts with missing words
  • Signs, announcements, schedules, forms
  • Role-play common everyday situations (e.g., asking for info, shopping, booking)
  • Describing past or future personal events
  • Handling basic oral interactions: thanking, apologizing, saying goodbye

Grammar

  • Confident use of present, passato prossimo, imperfetto and future simple
  • Agreement of the past participle
  • Subordinate clauses
  • Compound sentences using coordination
  • Combined pronouns
  • Interjections
  • Common coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
  • Simple and articulated prepositions

Practice and Situations

  • Writing letters, messages, diary entries, or notices
  • Engaging in role-plays: booking a room, making a complaint, giving advice
  • Giving and asking for opinions, preferences, and suggestions
  • Understanding everyday conversations: instructions, dialogues, voicemails
  • Reading and interpreting ads, menus, posters, emails, and short articles
  • Discussing topics like work, hobbies, trips, cities or recent news

Grammar

  • Confident use of all indicative tenses
  • Use of conditional present and past
  • Mastery of subjunctive mood in dependent clauses
  • Passive and impersonal constructions
  • Relative and indirect questions
  • Use of gerunds and infinitive clauses
  • Command of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

Practice and Situations

  • Writing formal and informal texts: opinion articles, complaint letters, social commentary
  • Role-plays in bureaucratic, educational or workplace settings
  • Expressing hypotheses, agreement/disagreement, nuanced opinions
  • Understanding longer, multi-speaker conversations: interviews, news, announcements
  • Reading and analyzing editorials, reviews, surveys, official documents
  • Summarizing and commenting on written or visual materials 

Grammar

  • Confident and flexible use of all verb moods and tenses
  • Mastery of complex sentence structures
  • Use of hypothetical constructions (second and third conditional)
  • Mastery of impersonal forms and passive voice
  • Precise use of pronominal particles
  • Mastery of linking and discourse markers for argumentation and narration

Practice and Situations

  • Writing structured texts: formal emails, reports, proposals, argumentative essays
  • Oral presentations and debates on abstract, academic or professional topics
  • Handling formal interactions: interviews, negotiations, inquiries
  • Understanding complex spoken Italian: lectures, debates, radio/TV discussions
  • Reading and analyzing sophisticated materials: essays, editorials, academic texts
  • Commenting on and evaluating information from multiple sources (visual and textual)

Grammar

  • Full control of all tenses
  • Mastery of hypothetical periods (real, potential, and unreal)
  • Use of nuanced register distinctions (formal, informal, professional)
  • Advanced lexical derivation and idiomatic expressions
  • Passive and impersonal forms, including reflexive passives
  • Proper use of synonyms, connectors, and discourse markers

Practice and Situations

  • Writing complex argumentative essays, reviews, reports, and official letters
  • Summarizing and critically reflecting on literary, journalistic, and academic texts
  • Engaging in advanced oral debates: defending positions, evaluating arguments
  • Reading and analyzing legal, philosophical, and scientific texts
  • Commenting on cultural content, visual stimuli, or abstract topics
  • Demonstrating pragmatic awareness
  • Flexible scheduling to match your availability
  • Interactive sessions focusing on all four competencies and exam technique
  • Personalized guidance to build accuracy, fluency, and confidence
  • Sit full mock exams replicating the format and timing of your target CELI level
  • Develop effective time management and task-approach strategies.
  • Familiarize with official scoring and rubrics: Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking.
  • Official CELI audio files, reading texts, writing prompts, and grammar/vocabulary support.
  • Exercises designed to reflect real exam with credentialed instructor feedback.
  • Exam simulation to ensure you’re relaxed and prepared on the day.
  • Learn to tackle CELI-specific task formats effectively.
  • Enhance your ability to interpret moderately complex texts and dialogues under exam pressure.
  • Construct well-organized, cohesive texts matching level expectations.
  • Over 10,000 happy students
  • Rated 4.8/5
  • 150+ certified professional teachers

All levels

Includes access to all levels

Italian A1
Italian A1
Italian A2
Italian A2
Italian B1
Italian B1

Course certificate — Progress report of mastered topics. Teacher verification in classes. Aligned with Celi.

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Personalized tasks and hand-ins

Your teacher sets personalized tasks—and the app adapts exercises to your level and the areas you find hardest.

Learning portal

Study online or offline with PDF downloads, interactive exercises, audio, video, and AI-powered writing feedback.

Structured learning paths

Follow clear paths from A1 to C1, plus professional courses tailored to your goals.

Conversation classes

Every teacher is personally screened and trained to teach with our learning portal—so your classes match your course and progress.

Offline worksheets (PDF, translated)

Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

Quality guarantee

We partner with universities and align every course with official learning programs—for reliable, recognized learning.

Learn with real content (news, podcasts…)

Practice with real news articles and podcasts—immersive content that prepares you for everyday language.

Full-skill training: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

Course materials trusted by official libraries and bookshops

Our books are sold in bookshops across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and beyond—and approved by public libraries.

Academic collaboration with universities

Course plans are co-developed from our Valencian office with multiple European universities.

Student reviews of our Italian lessons

  • 4.7/5
4.7 out of 5 based on 12 ratings

Preparing for an exam while working full time. Audio with translation makes revision realistic on short breaks.

Rachel E.
Helsinki, Finland
Self-study
  • 4.4/5

Clear structure from A1 upward. AI corrections in the portal save time; I still work through the printed units.

Claire D.
Lyon, France
Blended learning
  • 4.2/5

Social life improved once I could follow meetings in Italian. The portal exercises are short; the book gives depth.

David R.
Berlin, Germany
Blended learning
  • 4.8/5

Our partners

We thank our partners for the support we receive for developing our online school.

We proudly work with Lanzadera, a Spanish accelerator program in Valencia.

The university of Siegen helps us to develop and design our education systems and programs.

Our IT systems are powered and supported by the Google Cloud team

We collaborate with universities all across the European Union to develop our course materials, thanks to the Erasmus+ Program.