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Learn Italian for Beginners A0-A1 | Daily News Class in Simple Italian, Explained in English episodes
- Zheng Qinwen, the tennis player, flies into the quarter-finals at the | Beginner Italian class Nº056
Today's story: Zheng Qinwen, the tennis player, flies into the quarter-finals at the US Open. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Zheng Qinwen, tennista, vola ai quarti agli US Open
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:35) Three more stories today
(01:55) Today's headline, slowly
(02:52) The verb to beat
(03:22) Winning and losing positions
(04:00) Taking something in sport
(04:47) Today's grammar point
(05:20) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/italian/a1/2026-09-08
TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Zheng Qinwen, tennista, vola ai quarti agli US Open
Zheng Qinwen batte Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 e va ai quarti degli US Open.
Nel primo set era sotto 5-0.
Poi ha vinto sette game di fila.
Ha preso il set.
Zheng ha detto di aver perso per un momento il conto del punteggio.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Ed Miliband, ministro degli esteri del Regno Unito, annuncia un divieto di commercio con gli insediamenti israeliani illegali
Sciopero alla Torre Eiffel: SETE chiude la torre in Francia
Trump minaccia di bloccare Bombardier negli Stati Uniti
WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (battere)
- vocabulary (sotto)
- vocabulary (di fila)
- vocabulary (preso)
- vocabulary (il conto)
New to Italian? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start.
Not sure this is your level? Our free Italian level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills:
https://linguawire.com/assessment
Grammar explained in plain English:
https://linguawire.com/guide
If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other Italian learners find us.
Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Learn Italian for Beginners A0-A1 | Daily News Class in Simple Italian, Explained in English
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Learn Italian from zero, with real news, every morning. One short class a day in slow, simple Italian at A0-A1, explained line by line in English, with a free full transcript.
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today's lesson sheet:
https://linguawire.com/class/italian
WHAT YOU GET
A new class every morning. One real story from the day's news, said slowly in Italian, then taken apart word by word with the English beside it.
Every episode has its own page with the full Italian transcript, the English translation beside it, the day's vocabulary, one grammar point and a short quiz.
Every episode is also a video. If your podcast app is not showing it, watch on https://linguawire.com/class/italian
If you have never studied Italian, start with today's episode. There is no order to catch up on.
If you have been looking for an Italian course for beginners built on real material rather than scripted dialogues, this is it.
NOT SURE THIS IS YOUR LEVEL?
Our free Italian level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills, so you know what to work on next:
https://linguawire.com/assessment
WHEN THE CLASS STARTS TO FEEL SLOW
The same news, without the lesson around it, at A1, A2 and B1+. Search LINGUAWIRE Italian A1.
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Also in Spanish, German, French and Portuguese.
If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other Italian learners find us.
Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.