Learn with Duolingo

Duolingo.com is a free website where you can learn Italian. Create an account with your email address, or log in via Facebook (this lets you connect and compete with your Facebook friends). Lessons let you practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and treat it like a game: lose lives when you make errors, earn experience points and "level up" as you master various vocabulary and grammar, and so on.

Duolingo has apps for Android and iPhone/iPad so you can learn and practice anywhere.

Practice Your Italian!

Here are two free websites -- the first has text and audio files from US Foreign Service courses in Italian. You'll find pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar lessons. The second has Italian vocabulary, phrases, and grammar lessons. It also includes a lot of audio files so you can hear pronunciation samples.

Italian Grammar Books

Cambridge Histories

We have full-text online access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series -- providing up to date and authoritative scholarly content.