Learn Italian with Stories: La Roma Eterna - Ellie Impara L'Italiano (ItalianOnline‪)‬

Learning Italian Doesn’t Have To Be Boring!

Take your Italian to the next level and improve your vocabulary, reading comprehension and grammar with this Italian story for beginners!

Looking to learn Italian, a student from Chicago finds herself in Rome, the Eternal City, and tries to soak it all in. From historical landmarks, delicious food, clumsy attempts at love, and new ways of life, she makes new friends and discovers there's so much more to a language than just words. How will she manage the new language?

Discover Rome's unrivaled beauty, learn about local sights and traditions, and improve your Italian effortlessly along the way!


Getting started learning Italian? You completed all the Duolingo levels and know a bunch of words but can’t seem to succeed with longer texts? Been there, done that! This book is designed to help you get to the next step and connect individual words to reading Italian stories – all while having fun!

Our books are created with our readers in mind and use simplified sentence structures as well as basic vocabulary you can build upon. This allows even beginners to fully engage with the story and immerse themselves in an authentic Italian language experience.

Every chapter contains an Italian-English dictionary with special emphasis on popular phrases and expressions designed to improve memorization.

The stories and crafted language structures enable readers to assimilate new material quickly and make the learning process seamless and fun!

What’s In The Book


A good balance of familiar and new vocabulary
Lots of phrases and expressions that Italians actually use
Italian-English dictionary of the most difficult words/expressions after every chapter
The right amount of support to be challenged but also to allow you to follow along
Fun quizzes after every chapter to test your comprehension (and solutions)
An engaging story that will be fun to discover in Italian



What’s NOT In The Book


No parallel translations, which may appear helpful but don’t actually teach you anything
Monotonous stories and boring characters created by academics
Distracting sentences in English that ruin the reading flow
Old Italian vocabulary and formal phrases nobody actually uses in Italy
Condescending storytelling that insults your intelligence
A teaching approach that is too formal and too serious



Read The Entire Series

Where will Ellie go next? Follow our clumsy character on her adventurous journey around the most famous cities in Italy. Before you know it, you’ll have travelled around Italy and learned more Italian than you would have thought possible at a fraction of the cost of expensive courses.

More Stories Coming Soon!


Buckle up! Learning Italian is about to get real fun!