Italian Texts for Beginners

Italian texts for beginners (A1 and A2) and intermediates (B1 and B2) to practice reading in Italian language. Written Italian is a beautiful, expressive part of this elegant language. Now, we have a simple, challenging online exercise to sharpen and evaluate your reading comprehension.

25 free texts

Premium: 40 texts

Professional Italian teachers prepared brief texts, interesting articles and everyday conversations and created challenging questions of understanding that follow each one. Just select, read, then answer the questions at the end. You will get your results immediately, and feel both challenged and accomplished! You can even download as pdf and print any text you wish. It's an enjoyable, fun and free way to learn and improve.

Level A1

Title	Test
La mia famiglia Presentation of family members and relatives	?	start »
Cosa mi metto?DIALOGUE Dialogue about plans, colors and clothes	?	start »
La camera da letto di Luisa Luisa tells about the furniture in her room	?	start »
La famiglia di Giovanni Hi, I'm Giovanni and this is my family	?	start »
La giornata di Carlo Carlo talks about what a typical day is like for him	?	start »

Title	Test
La mia casa a Roma Francesca tells us about her home in Rome	?	start »
La mia famiglia 3 My parents, my sister and my tiny dog	?	start »
La mia famiglia II Meet my family	?	start »
La mia settimana Sabrina and her weekday routine	?	start »
Mi chiamo Sofia Sofia is very happy with her family	?	start »
I miei animali domesticiPREMIUM	?	start »
La gita in montagnaPREMIUM	?	start »
La nascita di mia sorellaPREMIUM	?	start »
Prima di andare a dormirePREMIUM	?	start »

Premium: 4 more Texts

Level A2

Title	Test
Come stai?DIALOGUE Luca and Giovanni meet by chance	?	start »
I colori del piccolo Mattia Mattia and his affinity for colors	?	start »
Il mio amico Luigi Meet Luigi, my best friend	?	start »
La lettera I can tell you that soon I'll be coming to see you	?	start »
La mia casa II My home is beautiful! I love this place!	?	start »

Title	Test
La mia giornata tipo A typical day in Francesca's life	?	start »
La mia stanza It's not that big, but it has everything I need	?	start »
La stanza di luigi Luigi and his brother Mario's bedroom	?	start »
Napoli Maria enjoying her vacation	?	start »
Carlo scrive una letteraPREMIUM When will you come visit me in Madrid?	?	start »
Casa, dolce casaPREMIUM	?	start »
Il mio amico MatteoPREMIUM I love my friend Matteo to pieces	?	start »
Il mio bellissimo gatto neroPREMIUM	?	start »
Il mio cinema preferitoPREMIUM	?	start »
La bambola ed il pagliaccioPREMIUM	?	start »
La camera di AnnaPREMIUM	?	start »
La giornata di MarcoPREMIUM	?	start »
La letteraPREMIUM	?	start »
La mia amica MonicaPREMIUM	?	start »
La mia famigliaPREMIUM	?	start »
La mia pizza preferitaPREMIUM	?	start »
La torta per San ValentinoPREMIUM	?	start »
Le ricette di CarlottaPREMIUM	?	start »
Lettera al mio amico JohnPREMIUM Franco opens up about his life to his friend	?	start »
Una gita a MilanoPREMIUM	?	start »
Una gita al marePREMIUM	?	start »

Premium: 17 more Texts

Level B1

Title	Test
Il menù "La Collina" Tavern offers pasta and other specialty dishes	?	start »
Italia Memories of my trip to Italy	?	start »
La mia città I'm from Rome, the most beautiful city in the world	?	start »

Title	Test
La nuova dietaDIALOGUE Can you give me some wight loss tips?	?	start »
Roma (lettera) I've just arrived in Italy and it's such a charming place.	?	start »
Al ristorante con MassimoPREMIUM	?	start »
Città italianePREMIUM	?	start »
Francesca e suo fratello GabrielePREMIUM	?	start »
Il guardaroba di Luca e PaolaPREMIUM They are siblings but have very different tastes	?	start »
Il mio viaggio in ItaliaPREMIUM My trip to Italy was a fantastic experience	?	start »
Il ristorantePREMIUM	?	start »
Le vacanze di MichelePREMIUM Michele thoroughly enjoyed herself while on vacation	?	start »
L’ultimo film che ho vistoPREMIUM	?	start »
Macchia e RudiPREMIUM	?	start »
Pallina e BriciolaPREMIUM	?	start »
Tornare al nidoPREMIUM	?	start »

Premium: 11 more Texts

Level B2

Title	Test		PDF
Cristoforo Colombo Colonization of the Americas	?	start »

Title	Test
Forme di utilizzazione del suoloPREMIUM	?	start »
Il giovane D’ArtagnanPREMIUM	?	start »
L'agricoltura italianaPREMIUM	?	start »
La CorsicaPREMIUM	?	start »
La festa di carnevalePREMIUM	?	start »
La primavera di BotticelliPREMIUM	?	start »
Le maggiori produzioni agricolePREMIUM	?	start »
Poesie ItalianePREMIUM	?	start »

Premium: 8 more Texts

Premium