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Learning Italian: what actually works

Italian is one of the 28 languages NoaLingua offers, and 5 of its ten capability axes are verified from the extension's own registries. This page lists what exists, what is documented as absent, and the specific things about Italian that do not apply to any other language.

Italiano

BCP-47 it · latin script

Capability by capability

Support for Italian, capability by capability
Capability State Detail
Chrome on-device translation per pair Not documented Varies by pair; Chrome decides
YouTube caption translation Not documented YouTube covers 156 languages; the list is not published per language
Cloud translation (MyMemory) per pair Not documented Opt-in, quota-limited, and the only source that sends sentence text off your device.
Offline word dictionary per pair Not documented FreeDict/WikDict coverage is per pair and not enumerated
Grammar tables (UniMorph) Partial 20 MB · verbs only — V, V.PTCP and V.CVB, and nothing else
Definitions & IPA (Wiktionary / kaikki) Yes 71 MB
Example sentences (Tatoeba) per pair Yes Real bilingual sentences, searched locally once downloaded.
Speech recognition (Chrome pack) Not documented Chrome owns this pack; availability is Chrome's, not ours
Uncommon-word highlighting Yes Bundled top-1500 list
Punctuation for captions without it Yes One 56 MB model covering 47 languages, downloaded once per profile.

Specific to Italian

Things that are only true here

  • Italian UniMorph is verbs only — 509,574 rows, all V, V.PTCP or V.CVB. Nouns and adjectives come from the Wiktionary pack or not at all.
  • Italian elisions are stripped on click, the same way French ones are.
  • The Italian Wiktionary pack is 71 MB.
  • Italian has one of the seven bundled frequency lists.
Setting up for Italian Choose Italian as the language you are learning in the extension popup or Settings → Languages. Packs begin downloading immediately and in the background — leave the browser open for 15 to 30 minutes and check the corner of the screen. When it goes quiet, everything is local. The full first-run guide →

Common questions

Does NoaLingua work for Italian?

Italian is one of the 28 languages in the learning and translation selectors, and 5 of its ten capability axes are verified. The table on this page shows exactly which ones — including the ones that are documented as absent.

Can I get grammar tables for Italian?

Yes. 20 MB · verbs only — V, V.PTCP and V.CVB, and nothing else Conjugation and declension tables open at the exact form you clicked.

Does Italian work offline?

Yes, once the packs finish downloading. Expect to leave the extension running 15 to 30 minutes after choosing your languages.

What does “not documented” mean in the table?

That we have not verified it ourselves, so we will not claim it either way. It is not the same as “no”. Several of those columns depend on data Chrome owns and does not publish per language.