Greetings in Italian
Use the greetings pack with Italian words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ Italian
Play your way into Italian vocabulary
Build useful Italian vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to Italian recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
- 01
Meet
See a useful word with a picture, its Italian spelling, and audio.
- 02
Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
- 03
Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
- 04
Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for Italian
Italian is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what Italian has.
| Feature | Italian |
|---|---|
| Script | Latin (Italiano) |
| Transliteration | Not needed: Italian is written in the Latin alphabet |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Not marked on cards |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 12 |
| Alphabet Quest | No |
| On-screen keyboard | Not needed |
Real lesson content
12 Italian phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the Italian lessons as published.
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| My father and mother have a new house. | Mio padre e mia madre hanno una casa nuova. |
| The girl wants to see the city today. | La ragazza vuole vedere la città oggi. |
| The young girl wants to be a good student at the new school. | La giovane ragazza vuole essere una brava studentessa nella nuova scuola. |
| The young girl wants to go to the café to drink a cup of coffee today. | La giovane ragazza vuole andare al bar a bere una tazza di caffè oggi. |
| My father makes fresh pasta with cheese for dinner. | Mio padre fa della pasta fresca al formaggio per cena. |
| At home, my father gives the child a small book. | A casa, mio padre dà al bambino un piccolo libro. |
| My friend knows the name of the man at the bar. | Il mio amico conosce il nome dell'uomo al bar. |
| At dinner, my family eats fish at a big table. | A cena, la mia famiglia mangia pesce a un grande tavolo. |
| The cook mixes rice with vegetables and chicken. | Il cuoco mescola il riso con le verdure e il pollo. |
| My family eats bread with butter and drinks milk for breakfast every day. | La mia famiglia mangia pane con burro e beve latte a colazione ogni giorno. |
| The waiter says that soup is on the lunch menu. | Il cameriere dice che la zuppa è nel menù del pranzo. |
| My father makes an egg salad with oil, pepper, and salt. | Mio padre fa un'insalata di uova con olio, pepe e sale. |
Word by word
60 Italian words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | Italian, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| father | padre |
| mother | madre |
| have | hanno |
| house | casa |
| new | nuova |
| girl | ragazza |
| want | vuole |
| see | vedere |
| city | città |
| today | oggi |
| young | giovane |
| be | essere |
| good | brava |
| student | studentessa |
| school | scuola |
| go | andare |
| cafe | bar |
| drink | bere |
| cup | tazza |
| coffee | caffè |
| make | fa |
| fresh | fresca |
| pasta | pasta |
| cheese | formaggio |
| dinner | cena |
| home | casa |
| give | dà |
| child | bambino |
| small | piccolo |
| book | libro |
| friend | amico |
| know | conosce |
| name | nome |
| man | uomo |
| bar | bar |
| family | famiglia |
| eat | mangia |
| fish | pesce |
| big | grande |
| table | tavolo |
| cook | cuoco |
| mix | mescola |
| rice | riso |
| vegetable | verdure |
| chicken | pollo |
| bread | pane |
| butter | burro |
| milk | latte |
| breakfast | colazione |
| day | giorno |
| say | dice |
| waiter | cameriere |
| soup | zuppa |
| lunch | pranzo |
| menu | menù |
| egg | uova |
| salad | insalata |
| oil | olio |
| pepper | pepe |
| salt | sale |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into Italian.
Travel vocabulary in Italian
Use the travel pack for Italian transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in Italian
Use the food pack for everyday Italian words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning Italian with MemDecks
Can I translate Italian back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–Italian learning pair in either direction while keeping Italian as the study language.
Are there Italian lessons, or only single words?
Both. Phrase Builder has 12 Italian lessons, each built around one phrase and the words in it, and every word you save becomes a card other games can use.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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