8 Places to Find Italian Worksheets for Learners and Practice Your Way to Fluency
As the old proverb goes,“Pigliar due piccioni con una fava.” (“Get two birds with one stone”).
What it really means is that you’re taking care of two issues at once. And if you want to practice both your Italian reading and writing skills, worksheets require you to read in Italian and complete questions.
On top of that, they’re extremely effective tools for learning and reinforcing grammar, spelling and vocabulary. Besides, they can be fun!
Where do you find Italian worksheets for practice? Let’s check out our options.
Contents
- How Italian Worksheets Can Improve Your Language Skills
- How to Use Italian Worksheets to Study
- Italian Worksheets Learners Can Use to Hone Their Skills
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How Italian Worksheets Can Improve Your Language Skills
Teachers use Italian worksheets all the time because they’re so effective. Even if you’re not studying in a class, you can benefit greatly from adding these time-tested learning tools to your Italian program.
Worksheets cover all areas of learning. They’re available in a multitude of topics and are designed with learners of all levels in mind.
They can help you practice grammar concepts, show you how to use vocabulary correctly, practice specific parts of the language and so much more.
Since you need to read the directions (which are often in Italian) and the questions, you’ll also be working on your reading skills.
And don’t forget that you’ll be writing down the answers, which reinforces your writing and even spelling skills.
If you want to add to the benefit of this study time, read everything out loud to get some speaking practice in, too!
How to Use Italian Worksheets to Study
Not sure how to use worksheets to improve your Italian skills? Here are some tips!
- Choose level-appropriate worksheets. They should be a little challenging but not so difficult that you’ll get discouraged.
- Choose topics that reinforce your learning. If you’re learning the Italian subjunctive, for instance, look for a worksheet that covers this topic.
- Use worksheets to build your vocabulary. Any time you find unfamiliar words in the exercises, note them down and form new vocabulary lists.
- Use them to gauge your understanding of a topic. When you finish a worksheet, check your answers. This’ll give you a good idea of how well you understand the topic and help you pinpoint what, specifically, needs more work.
If you’re a more visual learner but want to get the same quiz-like progress-tracking as you do in a worksheet, FluentU might be just right for you.
FluentU takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons, as you can see here:
FluentU helps you get comfortable with everyday Italian by combining all the benefits of complete immersion and native-level conversations with interactive subtitles.
Tap on any word to instantly see an image, in-context definition, example sentences and other videos in which the word is used.
Access a complete interactive transcript of every video under the Dialogue tab, and review words and phrases with convenient audio clips under Vocab.
Once you've watched a video, you can use FluentU's quizzes to actively practice all the vocabulary in that video. Swipe left or right to see more examples of the word you’re on.
FluentU will even keep track of all the Italian words you’ve learned to recommend videos and ask you questions based on what you already know.
Plus, it'll tell you exactly when it's time for review. Now that's a 100% personalized experience!
The best part? You can try FluentU for free!
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Italian Worksheets Learners Can Use to Hone Their Skills
ToLearnFree
There’s a huge assortment of worksheets on the Italian-learning portion of the site. They cover a multitude of topics, from grammar points to vocabulary and everything in between!
Don’t have time to finish a worksheet? This website allows you to save your progress. And if you don’t like the score when you press the “Check My Test” button, simply do the worksheet again!
It’s worth noting that these are created by users of the ToLearnFree site. Given that point, it’s possible that not all the information is absolutely accurate.
Having said that, I tried a number of the worksheets and everything was correct. However, when dealing with user-made content, it’s always a good idea to do a quick search to double-check.
The variety of worksheets practically insures that any Italian language issue you have is covered here!
Italian Grammar
Italian Grammar has worksheets organized by levels so it’s a snap to find what you’re interested in.
Every possible grammar topic is covered here, from adverbs and adjectives to the different tenses.
Worksheets are in the form of Word documents, which makes it super easy to type in your own answers for some Italian typing practice or print the sheet to practice writing.
Each worksheet has an accompanying PDF answer sheet so you can check how you did.
The topics are vast but if you’re looking for something that’s not on the first page, there are buttons at the bottom that’ll lead you to additional worksheets!
OnlineItalianClub.com
These worksheets are definitely worth checking out, as many are entirely in Italian.
They’re designed for beginning learners and come with the bonus that every topic is covered by a free lesson. This means that if you don’t want to go directly to the worksheets, you can review the lesson first—or you can read up on the topic if you didn’t do well on the worksheet.
Checking your answers and points is easy thanks to buttons at the bottom of each worksheet.
This site also has plenty of other useful resources for learners, including vocabulary lists and audio lessons.
Teachers Pay Teachers
The worksheets were designed for use by teachers in Italian language classrooms. They aren’t free to download but at $1-$5 per resource, they won’t break your bank, either.
Since most topics covered here are basic, this is a good resource for beginner learners. You can learn essentials that every Italian learner should know, like common vocabulary, tenses and even the pronunciation of Italian sounds.
Best of all, there are over 1,000 Italian worksheets here, so you’re sure to find the topic you’re looking for!
Il Tavolo Italiano (The Italian Table)
Il Tavolo Italiano is a comprehensive site that’s particularly useful to beginning learners. Much of the material covers fundamental Italian learning topics like essential grammar and vocabulary.
The worksheets are organized into a recommended study plan, with suggestions on what to learn every week over the course of 12 weeks, starting with the alphabet. Each week contains a lesson and several exercise pages associated with the topic.
Please note that registration is required to access some of the content.
Exercises are varied in style and some even include crossword puzzles! It’s a fun way to make sure you really grasped the topics.
The online worksheets display instant feedback on whether your answer is correct or not.
“Bravo!” is the message that appears with each correct answer. Fun!
“Italian Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook”
“Italian Tutor,” created by Maria Guarnieri and Federica Sturani, is a grammar and vocabulary workbook. That is, it’s a book filled with tons of worksheets and answers—and that’s exactly what we’re looking for!
This Italian workbook covers vocabulary and grammar through 200 activities. There are detailed explanations so you can check your work as well as concise goals which makes progressing through this book a logical study method.
By the end of this book, you’ll be familiar with how to use key vocabulary and grammatical constructions, but you’ll also develop useful real-life skills like writing an email, discussing the weather, talking about states of mind and much more.
The book can be used as a course on its own or as a supplement to any Italian language program.
“Italian in 10 Minutes a Day”
This book by Kristine K. Kershul is part of the popular series that teaches languages quickly. There are other languages available; each works using the 10-minute method that insists that anyone can find 10 minutes to study a language each day!
Within the book you’ll find excellent flashcards, sticky labels, a menu guide for dining out and lots of activities for studying Italian. It makes learning fun!
It also has loads of worksheets with answers that help beginning learners master the basics. It’s designed to look like a child’s workbook to make it extremely approachable at any level (or age).
Great reviews show this really is a useful resource!
“Cool Kids Speak Italian”
This book is designed with children in mind and provides an ideal way for even young learners to learn Italian.
The activities and exercises are basic and stress the fundamentals of vocabulary and grammar.
They’re also fun and engaging—and if you want to teach your child Italian, this is the perfect way to do so!
Of course, this resource isn’t just for kids, though: Anyone can learn from this colorful, beginner-friendly book.
Learning how to speak Italian should be a wonderful adventure filled with wonderful learning moments!
So add a few worksheets every day to your language program. Who knows? You might get hooked.
Hooked on learning.
Hooked on having fun.
Hooked on Italian!
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