At 66, I signed up for Italian classes not because I dreamed of Tuscany, but because I needed to prove that my mind was still ...

Busuu is a solid option for learning Italian. It’s a community app with a bunch of various lessons by members of the community. Italian lessons include vocabulary and grammar stuff as well as audio ...

The first words I learned in Italian were gamba di legno, or wooden leg, for which Benito Mussolini and Walt Disney are to blame: After the war, my mother, who was fluent in Italian, had been involved ...

Italian-language programmes on the BBC. BBC Four occasionally shows films and documentaries with some interviews in Italian with English subtitles. Take a look at BBC iPlayer for BBC Four programmes ...