The 7 best books to learn Italian • Wanderlix

Would you like to learn Italian or improve your language level? Discover our selection of the best 7 books to enrich your vocabulary and improve your grammar.

Reading is a universal tool to learn a language quickly. If her teaching starts from kindergarten in France it is not for nothing: reading represents the easiest access to an unlimited number of new words and expressions. Especially since the visualization of terms helps to stimulate the brain.

And if reading is beneficial to memory, it also presents the advantage of being nomad! On holiday, on the bus, at the other end of the world or at the bottom of your bed, reading is a practicable activity everywhere. With this selection of the best readings, you have all the cards in hand to master Italian on your fingertips!

Addressed to beginners as well as to the most seasoned, these readings will allow you to combine pleasure and learning by immersing yourself in the language known as the most beautiful in the world!

1. The avventure di Pinocchio

If Pinocchio is one of the memories of your childhood, know that the famous Disney was inspired by the great Italian classic: The avventure di Pinocchio Carlo Collodi. Come and discover Gepetto’s timeless puppet at the same time funny, touching and sometimes a little liar and disobedient.

This great classic is simple and quick to read in Italian. You may already know history which will greatly facilitate the understanding of the novel and will allow you not to stop on each word. To begin learning Italian, The avventure di Pinocchio is therefore an ideal to have in your library.

2. He drappo Scomparso

Designed for learning Italian, the publisher of the House of Languages has published a series of short and illustrated police novels adapted to beginners. Thus, when the vocabulary is missing, the images allow you to understand the meaning of a particular sentence or word.

In addition to the novel He drappo scomparso from Slawka Girogio Scarso, you will find 5 other fictions in which suspense and learning will be intertwined. And cherry on the cake, every novel leads you to a region of Italy, a good way to discover every time a new facet of the country.

3. The Twelve News

Originally a journalist, writer Dino Buzzati is well known for his unique writing style: inducing a fantastic and unusual aspect of everyday life. Completely shifted, the twelve new transcribe several short and captivating stories on various and varied themes. From the doctor to the driver, from the delicacy to Cinderella, impossible to get bored in this world both absurd and fantastic that Dino Buzzati portrays us.

The news is short, fast and training, which facilitates reading and learning. But above all the Italian/French bilingual edition allows you to go directly to piocher the unknown words in the translation on the right side. Attention, however: the idea is to try to look at the least possible French retranscription.

4. Fiabe italiane, Italo Calvino Italian contes

In 1950, Italo Calvino was commissioned by the Italian radio to reformulate stories impregnated with Italian folklore. He then went in search of popular fables among the most famous contors and retranscribed in Italian the stories initially written in dialect. In the spirit of Perrault’s tales, we find with Fiabe italiane philosophical and poetic fables in an accessible language for an intermediate Italian level.

Blue beard, magicians and fairies will be the protagonists of these wonderful stories rather destined for adults. The French translation also supports the gaps and allows you to progress in your learning while revealing some of the features of Italy.

The novel is pleasant to read, well written and taking without the difficulty of Italian being too important for a beginner. In short Fiabe Italiane is to read as much for learning as for pleasure.

5. Topolino (BD Mickey)

If Topolino Don't tell you anything, his French translation more known as Mickey must probably talk to you! The BDs are expressive and the known hero: learning Italian with Mickey is easy.

It is easy to guess the vocabulary and history thanks to the images without having to do a search in the dictionary for each word. Also following Mickey's adventures is his band remains very entertaining, even (and especially) in Italian!

6. Italian is a game

Far from classic learning formats Italian is a game by Mariuccia Bertolozzi envisages teaching more playfully! In this book you will find short grammar lessons and vocabulary notions always apprehended with lightness and humour.

Different exercises will then help you memorize everything. The book is easy to take in hand with 20 steps-games allowing you to access the bases of Italian.

If many books to train in the language exist today, it clearly stands out by its entertaining side. Would you like a short, pleasant manual to read and summarize the essentials? It is Italian is a game That you need!

7. Le Bescherelle: Italian for all

When you start learning Italian it can be very useful to invest in a comprehensive guide that gathers all the grammar, vocabulary, conjugation and translation bases. That we say the Bescherelle is not the most attractive book in the world, yet Italian for all remains very pleasant to read in addition to being clear and illustrated.

When you finish a step, a mini quizz is to be realized allowing you to see if you really understood the lesson. In addition, the format is perfect for travel. So, if you go to Italy, it is an indispensable one that you will have to carry in your luggage to progress!