👉The podcasts I’ve tried in the past have always gone over the same language

👉When I listen to other people learning, I find myself remembering their mistakes more than the correct phrases

👉If I tune out even for a second, I feel lost and defeated

👉When the speakers speak too quickly, I feel like I might as well be listening to white noise

This is an amazing resource that someone recommended to me on Twitter, create by a guy named Davide. Davide discusses everything from football to fascism at levels beginner, intermediate and advanced.

He also puts the episodes on his Podcast Italiano Youtube channel, with accompanying visuals of course, which will help your understanding.

Voices of Bell’Italia is a podcast that features a travelling Italian who meets a local of each play he/she visits. English narration is threaded through each podcast to provide context. Read the episode transcripts as you listen, where you’ll also find pictures embedded in the text to aid your comprehension.

Created by Manu Venditti, Podcast 100% in Italiano covers a whole range of topics and each episode comes with a set of pre-listen comprehension questions and the full transcript; Manu speaks nice and slowly so it’s a great resource for immediate learners.

La bottega di Babbel is a really good resource; whilst it does feature students (one of my bugbears!), they all have at least intermediate level Italian and they are simply part of the conversation rather than a slow and plodding feature of the episodes.

Remember to read the dynamic transcript featuring pictures that accompany the episodes, as you listen.

Oggi nella Storia is a podcast centred around discovering what happened on this day in years past. As such, each episode is named after the date it was released, and the content features something that happened on the same day in the past. You can read through the transcripts as you listen.

These make great conversation starters with your friends, whether in Italian or your native language!

Creator Barbara Bassi is an Italian teacher living in London. Her stories are original, written by the teachers working at the school she founded. There are accompanying vocabulary lists and transcripts with every episode.

Creator Stefano is a pleasure to listen to, with his upbeat tone. He mostly covers topics related to Italian culture, whilst sometimes focusing on particular word sets in his episodes.

Read the transcripts here (you’ll need to sign up to access them, but it’s free)

Stories is a podcast with a twist; host and foreign correspondent Cecilia Sala reports from overseas to produced a story snippet of conflicts happening outside of Italy daily.

She says: “The idea is always to start with a scene, a detail or a character, famous or unknown, that is symbolic in some way and is an instrument to tell a larger, more universal story.”

Learn more about Stories here.