3 Minute Italian - Free taster course | Beginner lessons (Udemy.com)
Learn to speak Italian you can use in everyday real-world situations - all in just 3-minute chunks!
Created by: Kieran Ball
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Speak Italian confidently and comfortably in everyday situations
- Understand what's being said back to you
- Be more than just an average tourist when travelling to Italian speaking countries
- Go from complete beginner to building your own sentences after the very first lesson
- Build a solid base vocabulary of words and phrases you can use straight away in the real world
- Understand and use grammatical and linguistic features of the Italian language with ease
- Understand the structure of the Italian language
- Get to grips with Italian pronunciation
How it compares
Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 82% of them
- Reviews2,694#105 of 536 by number of reviews
- Length1.1 hoursshorter than 95% of them
- Last updatedApril 2025more recently than 60% of them
Course Description
Ciao! Hello and welcome to 3 Minute Italian :-)
3 Minute Italian is a collection of online lessons that helps the complete beginner learn to speak Italian in simple, bite-sized chunks.
The lessons start off by giving you a few words that you can use to build your own sentences. For example, in lesson one, you'll learn these words and phrases:
buono - good
è - it is
fantastico - fantastic
qui - here
molto - very
non è - it isn't
With those words, you can build sentences like these:
It's good.
It's here.
It's very good here.
It isn't here.
It isn't good; it's fantastic!
(See if you can translate those five sentences above into Italian just by using those words and phrases.)
The lessons continuously build on what you've been learning, enabling you to express yourself fluently in Italian. As you move through the course, you'll pick up new vocabulary, useful grammar points and interesting ways to look at the structure of the Italian language that will give you plenty of "Aha!" moments.
The reason it's called "3 Minute Italian" is because the lessons are broken down into very short, three-minute chunks. Everybody, no matter how busy you are, has time to fit in a single three-minute lesson once a day, and in fact, by keeping learning to such short chunks, you'll reap huge benefits. Short but consistent daily lessons are more effective than a longer lesson once or twice a week, because you'll find you maintain enthusiasm, develop a learning habit and you'll also memorise everything much better.
If you've never learnt Italian before, or if you have had a bad experience with learning this beautiful language, the 3 Minute Italian lessons will help you to succeed.
Grazie :-)
Kieran
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
2,694 Reviews
Kieran Ball
Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and olá!
I’m Kieran and I’m a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.
My books and online courses are based on the method I developed for teaching languages, which I've been using in all my classes for many years. The method will get you speaking quickly, without the struggle normally associated with language learning.
I have created three series of language courses available in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.
I hope you enjoy, and "Happy Learning" :-)
Kieran
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Reviews
By Irene on 5/24/2021
This is my first time taking a language course. Because it’s in small bites of 3min, I wasn’t overwhelmed. Even though it’s the first few lessons in a new language, there’s a good mix of short and longer words. After every 3 min, I am able to speak at least one new sentence and it gives me a sense of achievement.
By Aditya Singh Sengar on 7/20/2020
Nothing much but what else can be expected in 1-hour course. Honestly, I tried to learn Italian through coaching but that never worked out because the tutor wasn't good and I was stuck at sentence formation. This short course has taught me what I was looking for. Very simple and yet amazing.
By Lisa Roth on 4/12/2020
I cannot thank Kieran enough for this course. He has made learning Italian so easy and so much fun. As I have always struggled with languages I cannot believe how easily I picked this up and more importantly how easily I can actually remember it. Next course is already brought and waiting.
By Ekrem Degirmenci on 4/28/2019
it is actually helping my confidence to learn a different language and do that in a very kind, smooth manner. Also, the purpose which is teaching Italian is happening very very quickly. One more positive thing is showing the sentences and waitings on the screens are almost more than perfect. Very good design. I'm only seeing that the course is very short. I hope there would be more and comprehensive grammar and vocab lessons over there.
By Kathy Moore on 3/1/2019
Nice assortment of words but not enough to be useful for anything but minor sentences of approval (or not) such as it’s beautiful, it’s not beautiful, etc. However, I would consider taking other 3 minute language lessons due to size of each “chunk” (mostly 2-4 minutes) ... just need more chunks before being able to converse. Good vocabulary builder.
By Robin Edman on 12/23/2018
The course is made up of small bites of teaching in the see it-say it format. The pace is excellent, perfect really, the diction is clean and clear, and the rate of repetition is adequate for persons of normal intelligence, which is what most of us are. The taster course is free; there's no real reason not to try it.
By Richard J Wojtczak on 4/12/2018
I took a basic Italian course at the local community college several years ago, but basically forgot most of it. I believe this technique will be quicker in developing a conversational ability(obviously limited in vocabulary) than the traditional language course work.
By Victor Rosenberg on 6/6/2017
This course is actually a preview for a full paid one, but it is pretty good. It is based on listening to the instructor saying simple words and sentences and they practicing by translating those words and sentences from English to Italian and vice versa. The course does not touch any grammar or sentence building but it will teach you about 20 words and their pronunciation and you'll be able to compose some general statements using them.
By Deborah Williamson on 11/13/2016
Timeline of three minutes each day is do-able. Instructor gives a little instruction at a time and puts it all together. Very practical. Three minutes a day is manageable no matter how busy you are. There is lots of practice which is great! Highly recommend it.
By Jacqueline King on 8/13/2016
The Course ran at a suitable speed for the absolute beginner, and the instructor spoke very clearly and explained things perfectly. This gave me confidence throughout the course. I thoroughly enjoyed the learning, and working through Italian, and I look forward to learning the instructor's German, French and Spanish Courses which I have enrolled for. A wonderful course for the beginner. Absolutely recommended.
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