Are you learning Italian? If so, our beautifully-designed vocabulary deck is exactly what you need to take your Italian comprehension to the next level. Our deck is optimized for fast learning speed, and it has been expertly crafted to make native media as comprehensible as possible. With this deck, you can rest assured that you’ll be understanding and enjoying real Italian TV shows and books in weeks or months, not years.
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The biggest obstacle is vocabulary. This hand-crafted deck gets you to comprehension quickly by focusing on the words that actually appear in real Italian media. We analyzed dozens of native Italian TV shows to find the 1000 words that matter most — the ones no amount of casual immersion will hand you for free.
We didn't waste your time with cognates or words you'll pick up naturally from watching Italian content. Those 1600+ easy wins are already covered just by immersing. What's left in this deck is the hard-won core vocabulary that makes the difference between constant confusion and genuine understanding.
The deck is also carefully sequenced: over 90% of the example sentences introduce only one new word at a time. Every sentence was written by native Italian teachers from the well-known Italy Made Easy courses, so the audio and context are completely authentic.
For best results, pair this deck with consistent immersion in Italian media — check out our complete immersion learning guide to see exactly how to combine them.
Learning Italian vocabulary has never been easier than with the IT1K Vocabulary Deck.
The hardest part of learning a language is basic comprehension. Once you can understand enough to have fun, you'll never want to stop.
Learn what Italian is supposed to sound like with high-quality audio recorded by a native Italian speaker.
Reinforce what you learn with concrete high-resolution visuals.
Learn words in context with real example sentences, handwritten by Italian teachers and sorted by difficulty to optimize your learning.
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Yep! It just takes time, energy, and effort. The Italian deck took our team of data scientists, high-level Italian learners, and Italian natives about 150 hours to create. We’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to.
If it’s your first time studying a language, then you probably should.
Duolingo is a language-learning video game. It’s a great way to try out a language to see if you like it and to build a daily habit of engaging with the language.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t get you very far, and definitely won’t help you understand Italian.
Yep! But they have a few problems:
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They aren’t focused on helping you understand TV shows and casual conversation.
They haven’t filtered out the “easy words”.
They don’t have native audio.
The example sentences (if they even have any) are crowdsourced and usually low quality.
NO! This just builds the initial foundation for understanding Italian. Fluency comes after thousands of hours spent with the language.
Check out our Italian quickstart guide for content recommendations.
Congrats 🥳! Head on over to our guide on sentence mining to learn how to make cards directly from your immersion.
We began the deck creation process by analyzing the most frequent words in real Italian TV shows. From this list, we cut out over 1600 words that you can learn easily through immersion (words that look the same as English words or words that are just similar form of a word you already learned). This left just the cream of the crop — the 1000 most words that are the most important to learn through dedicated vocabulary study.
Native Italian TV shows used:
18 regali
Strappare lungo i bordi
Caffè Sospeso
Fedeltà
Sempre più Bello
Generazione 56K
Guida astrologica per cuori infranti
Baby
La vita davanti a sé
Il filo invisible
Maggie & Bianca
Me contro Te: Il film – La vendetta del Signor S
Mio fratello, mia sorella
New School
Sulla stessa onda
Pimpa
4 metà
SKAM Italia
Slam
Sotto il sole di Riccione
Sul più bello
Tre metri sopra il cielo
Natale a cinque stelle
Gli Infedeli
Zero
Blanca
Nero a metà
Incastrati
Curon
Lazzaro felice
In vacanza su Marte
Il Divin Codino : L’art du but par Roberto Baggio
The App
L’incredibile storia dell’Isola delle Rose
L’uomo senza gravità
La Belva
È stata la mano di Dio
Sulla mia pelle
Luna Park
Il processo
Il legame
Luna nera
Non mi uccidere
L’ultimo paradiso
Rimetti a noi i nostri debiti
First Team: Juventus
Ritoccàti
SanPa – Luci e tenebre di San Patrignano
Security
Sogno Azzurro: la strada per Wembley
Suburra – La serie
Ultras
A Classic Horror Story
Lo spietato
Vendetta
Yara
Yes, over 90% of the sentences in this deck are i+1. That means they only introduce one new word at a time.
Yes, the audio was produced by a native speaker from Italy Made Easy.
