Learn Italian by reading what you love
- Click to translate words and phrases
- Practice with smart flashcards
- Read articles, books, and more
How it works
Click to translate
Simply click words or phrases on any text or website to translate
them.
Mi piace leggere libri in Italianitaliano ogni sera.
Practice these words with flashcards
All the words you translate are saved and you can practice them with
flashcards whenever you want.
leggere libri in italiano.
?
mi piace
Understand the deeper context
Context-aware explanations of words and phrases using AI.
Explain
mi piace
/
I like
Here, "mi piace" means I like or I enjoy. Literally "it pleases me" — piacere works back-to-front compared to English.
What to read in Italian
Italian has rich verb conjugations and regional variations that can be tricky for learners. Reading real Italian content is the best way to absorb these patterns and build genuine fluency.
Starter stories on Readlang
- Una giornata al mercato – a simple short story suitable for beginners
- Vacanze a Roma – a short story about visiting Rome
Read around the web
- La Repubblica – one of Italy's leading newspapers
- Italian Wikipedia – look up any topic that interests you
And the best source of all… you! Use the Chrome Extension to read any website, or upload plain text and ePub files to your Readlang account.
What people are saying
I cannot recommend it any more highly. I use this very often for my own French learning and it's really helped me building my vocabulary and it makes the process of learning so much easier because I'm not copying and pasting into Google Translate all the time. So have a go at Readlang.
I speak 7 languages and I've used most of the language learning tools available so it doesn't happen very often that I discover something new that I'm genuinely impressed by. Readlang is one of those times! It's well designed, has just enough features, and is incredibly effective.
This was recommended to me by a fellow language-learning nut... It's worth the effort to test out as a browser extension.
Readlang.com got me from near zero ability to read Spanish to, I'm guessing, intermediate or higher reading comprehension. I just kept going and going, not stopping, using readlang's interface to look up words and phrases on the fly, trying to make quick associations in my head with interesting words.
more than
550,086
People
have translated
53,598,232
Words
from over
521,750
Texts
Supercharge your language learning today!
Start Learning
