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Italian A1–A2 flashcards

11 decks · 893 cards · built into Willys · free samples below

Written against: CEFR A1–A2; standard Italian; the vocabulary is 600 of the most frequent everyday words of an OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list, since no Italian exam publishes a word list. Updated 2026-10-10.

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What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 8 decks · 673 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Core Vocabulary One hundred A1 words: twenty-eight verbs beginners use most with their key forms, sixty everyday nouns and time words by theme with article and gender, and twelve adjectives with their forms, plus the spelling traps and false friends that catch English speakers. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Core Words: Adjectives, Numbers & Small Words 52 of the most frequent Italian describing words and small words, with the numbers from zero to a thousand: adjectives of quality and state, adverbs, quantities and counting words, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 82 cards in the app Core Words: Everyday Verbs 56 of the most frequent Italian verbs after the essentials: finding and losing, coming and going, starting and stopping, helping, choosing and checking, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 56 cards in the app Core Words: People, Feelings & Ideas 100 of the most frequent Italian A1 words: people and family, body and health, home, work and school, feelings, and talking and thinking, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time The days, months and seasons, then 42 of the most frequent Italian A1 words: time, shopping and money, getting around, nature and free time, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 65 cards in the app Phrases & Core Grammar Seventy prompts on the A1 essentials: tu vs Lei, greetings and survival phrases, il/lo/la/l' and plurals, essere, avere and stare, the present tense, c'è and ci sono, articulated prepositions, possessives with family nouns, passato prossimo, numbers, time and dates. 10 free · 70 cards in the app Core Vocabulary, Part 1 100 of the most frequent Italian words after A1, part 1: travel and town, the body and health, feelings, work and study, everyday verbs and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Core Vocabulary, Part 2 100 of the most frequent Italian words at A2: everyday verbs, people, health, home, food, town and travel, time, nature, work and school, free time, feelings, talk and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation. 10 free · 100 cards in the app

Drills · 2 decks · 180 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

In Context: Core Words Ninety Italian A1 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A1 vocabulary decks (people, time and places, verbs, describing words) so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 90 cards in the app In Context: Core Words Ninety Italian A2 sentences, each blanking one word or short expression from the folder's A2 vocabulary, Parts 1–2, so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 90 cards in the app

Practice · 1 deck · 40 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Practice Questions Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on A1 Italian: core words, tu and Lei, articles, essere and avere, present tense, prepositions, possessives and the passato prossimo. 6 free · 40 questions in the app

Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

Essential verbs 24
Everyday verbs 82
People & family 46
Home & daily life 43
Food & shopping 45
Town & travel 53
Time & weather 68
Work & study 34
Free time & culture 45
Feelings & character 55
Talking & thinking 77
Describing words 86
- Colour 1
- Quality & state 29
- Size & shape 3
Small words & numbers 78
- Adverbs 10
- Numbers 32
- Prepositions & conjunctions 1
- Quantities 6
Body & health 31
Nature & the world 23
Greetings & survival 12
Articles & nouns 11
Essere avere & stare 8
Present tense 12
C'è & ci sono 5
Articulated prepositions 8
Possessives 8
Passato prossimo 11
Numbers 6
Time & dates 6
Family & people 3
Home 3
Food & drink 3
City & travel 3
Time & calendar 2
Adjectives 2

A study plan

32 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
16 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
11 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

Checked against the Vocabolario Treccani (treccani.it), the De Mauro dictionary, the Garzanti Italian and Italian–English dictionaries (garzantilinguistica.it), the Cambridge Italian–English dictionary, the coniugazione.it conjugation tables, the Accademia della Crusca language-advice pages, word counts from the OpenSubtitles 2018 Italian list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT) and Google Books Ngram, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
Word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings, gender and plurals checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
Checked against the Treccani grammar and language pages (treccani.it), the Accademia della Crusca language-advice pages, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
Answers are headwords of this folder's A1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Meanings checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries. All sentences are original.
Checked against the Vocabolario Treccani (treccani.it), the De Mauro dictionary, the Garzanti Italian and Italian–English dictionaries (garzantilinguistica.it), the Cambridge Italian–English dictionary, the coniugazione.it conjugation tables, the Treccani grammar and language pages, the Accademia della Crusca language-advice pages, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied).
Original questions written for this deck; all sentences, signs, menus and messages are original, and no official, textbook or question-bank items were copied.
Word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings, gender, plurals and verb forms checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries, the Treccani grammar pages and Enciclopedia dell'Italiano, Il Nuovo De Mauro, the Cambridge Italian–English dictionary and the coniugazione.it conjugation tables, with usage counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles v2018 Italian corpus and A2 placement against the Council of Europe CEFR descriptors. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
Word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings, gender and plurals checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
Answers are headwords of this folder's A2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Meanings and rival answers checked against the Treccani, De Mauro, Garzanti and Cambridge online dictionaries, with word counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 Italian corpus and Google Books Ngram; facts checked against Trenitalia's regional-ticket rules, the IFAB Laws of the Game, the UK Highway Code (Open Government Licence v3.0), Japan's Road Traffic Act and the WHO Motor Development Study. All sentences are original.

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