How to start?

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

Be ready to pass the CILS exam at your chosen level

Who is this course for?

  • You are planning to live, work, or study in Italy.
  • You need a targeted and efficient course, not generic language lessons.
  • Designed for busy professionals.
  • No time wasted, just real progress with expert guidance and proven results.

What you will learn

  • You will be prepared to pass the CILS exam from beginner (A1) to mastery (C2).
  • Speaking: Practice structured oral tasks from official CILS formats in personal, academic and workplace contexts.
  • Listening: Improve comprehension with authentic CILS audio tasks and timed listening exercises.
  • Reading: Learn how to analyze real-world and test-style texts effectively.
  • Writing: Master writing tasks (emails, descriptions, reports) with coherence suited to your level.
  • Exam Skills: Train with mock CILS exams and test-taking strategies tailored to CILS standards.

This course in short

  • Custom plan: Your CILS-trained tutor will create a personalized study path.
  • Ongoing support: Get consistent feedback and encouragement from your certified teacher.
  • CILS-focused preparation: All materials and tasks are aligned with official CILS exam structure.

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
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  • 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 Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera (CILS) is an internationally recognized qualification awarded by the Università per Stranieri di Siena. It certifies proficiency in Italian as a second language across six CEFR levels (A1 to C2). The exam also serves specific purposes, including citizenship and work requirements in Italy.

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

  • Introducing oneself and others
  • Talking about age, nationality, and daily routines
  • Understanding timetables, signs, and simple instructions
  • Writing short phrases: greetings, postcards
  • Listening to basic conversations (e.g., at the bar, station)
  • Filling in forms with personal data

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

  • Describing routine, family and work
  • Writing short messages, letters, or notes
  • Reading short texts: emails, ads, posters
  • Role-playing situations (e.g., booking, asking for directions)
  • Expressing preferences and needs
  • Understanding short dialogues in shops, travel or at home

Grammar

  • Confident use of present, passato prossimo, imperfetto, and future
  • Subordinate clauses
  • Conditional present and past
  • Combined pronouns (me lo, glielo…)
  • Passive voice (present and past)
  • Adverbs of manner and frequency

Practice and Situations

  • Writing emails, diary entries, informal and semi-formal texts
  • Giving and asking for opinions and advice
  • Reading articles, notices, menus and announcements
  • Role-playing real-life scenarios (e.g., complaints, recommendations)
  • Understanding recorded voicemails, interviews
  • Speaking about experiences, preferences, plans and news

Grammar

  • All indicative tenses (including trapassato prossimo)
  • Present and past conditional
  • Subjunctive in dependent clauses
  • Passive and impersonal constructions
  • Gerunds and infinitive phrases
  • Indirect and interrogative questions
  • Mastery of prepositions and connectors

Practice and Situations

  • Writing formal letters, essays, opinion articles
  • Expressing agreement/disagreement and justifying opinions
  • Interpreting editorial texts, reviews, surveys and letters
  • Understanding multi-speaker dialogues, news, interviews
  • Role-plays in institutional, professional or educational settings
  • Summarizing or commenting on visual/textual materials

Grammar

  • Full control of all verb tenses and moods
  • Mastery of subjunctive and conditional in all uses
  • Use of impersonal/passive and pronominal verbs
  • Complex sentence structures: hypothetical, concessive, relative, temporal
  • High-level connectors and discourse markers
  • Advanced lexical derivation and idiomatic expressions

Practice and Situations

  • Writing argumentative essays, reports, and academic-style texts
  • Debating abstract and professional topics
  • Analyzing articles from literature, news, and technical sources
  • Understanding and interpreting lectures, debates, broadcasts
  • Evaluating and commenting on different perspectives
  • Oral fluency in structured and unstructured settings

Grammar

  • Mastery of all grammar forms and registers
  • Advanced command of idiomatic, formal, academic, and literary language
  • Passive and impersonal in complex structures
  • Precision in stylistic shifts (formal/informal/neutral)
  • Use of discourse strategies in argumentative and narrative discourse

Practice and Situations

  • Writing critical essays, reviews, proposals and formal reports
  • Interpreting and producing texts with abstract, cultural or philosophical content
  • Engaging in expert-level oral discussion, negotiation and interpretation
  • Reading and analyzing literary, legal and academic texts
  • Demonstrating pragmatic competence in formal interactions and academic setting 
  • 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 Cils.

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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.

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