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A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

24 lessons

Lesson 1the Lesson 2Essere expresses existence, Lesson 3e Lesson 4The indefinite article Lesson 5di Lesson 6 Lesson 7in Lesson 8The word "io" Lesson 9you Lesson 10In Italian, "it" Lesson 11The Italian verb Lesson 12to Lesson 13 Lesson 14per, Lesson 15 Lesson 16The English pronoun Lesson 17con Lesson 18The Italian word "su Lesson 19this Lesson 20non Lesson 21noi Lesson 22that Lesson 23 Lesson 24