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ItalianPod integrates audio and video podcast lessons with a range of learning tools and resources and a dynamic online community of learners. A choice of 4 subscription levels allows you to select a subscription that best suits your budget and schedule.

ItalianPod allows you to learn Italian on your terms.

Basic Subscription

Basic Subscription provides learners with access to all ItalianPod audio podcast lessons, and includes:

  • Full access to high-quality audio and video file podcasts
  • Unlimited access to our library of hundreds of podcast lessons
  • PDF transcripts to accompany each podcast, including the lesson dialogue, key vocabulary and translations (available to be read on an iPod)
  • Personal podcast RSS feed - subscribe to receive new lessons automatically
  • Bookmark tool - save lessons of interest, to study in your own time
  • Access to join the ItalianPod community and participate in online discussions

Premium Subscription

Premium Subscription is ideal for full-time study. In addition to Basic-level access, this subscripton includes full access to each podcast's accompanying learning materials & study tools. Premium subscribers can review, reinforce and build on the lesson's new vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns, thus optimizing their learning. The Premium Subscription includes:

  • Full Basic subscription access (See above)
  • Online lesson review exercises and expansion
  • High-quality audio review file, containing new vocabulary and examples of usage
  • Vocabulary study tools, including virtual flashcards
  • iPhone access

Subscription Special! Users who purchase 1 or 2 year subscriptions will receive a Digital Lesson Pack with 115 ItalianPod lessons, instantly downloadable.

Praxis Pass

Our offering to the true linguaphile, not satisfied by learning just one language; the Praxis Pass gives you access to 5 Praxis Language products:

Student Discounts

Ideal for the student who wants to get more out of their Italian classroom studies. Students with active university accounts are eligible for a 20% discount on any 6, 12 or 24 months subscription. This subscription also includes:

  • Access to practical & relevant lessons in our archive that you can use to support your classroom learning
  • Access to one of the biggest language learning communities on the web

Be sure to send us some proof of your full-time student status, this could be:

  • Scanned copy of your school ID
  • University website/email address
  • Class Schedule
  • A .edu email address on your name

Please message us with the required documents to ask for your student discount.

ItalianPod also provides group subscriptions for schools and universities. To inquire about the options available to educational institutions, please contact us

Corporate Solutions

Whether you're part of a foreign team based in Italy, or doing business with a Italian-speaking country from your home country, we have convenient and effective learning solutions for you and your organization.

Executive individuals and company groups can now develop their Italian without affecting their work schedules by using ItalianPod's corporate services. Anywhere, at any time, business professionals can study Italian using extensive online resources, have a conversation with a ItalianPod teacher or learn as a group under the guidance of a counselor.

ItalianPod supplies effective corporate training to support small and large, domestic & multi-national organizations by providing flexible, convenient and practical solutions to suit every staff member's needs. To find a solution to meet you or your corporation's needs, please message us.

Payment Methods

Subscriptions can be purchased through (i) secure credit card transactions, (ii) Paypal or (iii) by phone or fax. To get started click here.

  • If you are outside of China: tel. no. +86-21-5178-6700
  • local and international fax number:+86-21-5178-6723
  • You can also contact us if you wish to do a bank or wire transfer.

Monthly Subscription and recurring payment

If you are looking for an affordable month-to-month ItalianPod subscription solution with no long-term commitments, the Monthly Subscription is for you.

The ItalianPod Monthly Subscription gives you the opportunity to be flexible with your subscription payments. Instead of committing to a one-off lump payment, you can pay monthly and stop when it suits you.

Once you subscribe through credit card payment, or by PayPal transaction, we will automatically process your payment every month to avoid the hassle of going through the payment process every time you wish to renew. An email receipt will be sent to you on renewal.

Should you decide to cancel your subscription, simply go to the Update Subscription page and click the Cancel Recurring Billing button.

Subscription Changes

You can change your subscription type at any time, by clicking the Update Subscription button on your Profile page (or just click here).

The outstanding value on your account (remaining value of current subscription calculated on a per diem basis, plus any Praxis credits on your account) will be applied to your chosen subscription.

If the remaining value is less than the price of your chosen subscription, you will be asked to pay the difference, and if the remaining value exceeds the price of your chosen subscription, the difference will be stored in your account as a 'Praxis Credit', which can be redeemed against any future purchase on this site or any other Praxis Language website.

Changes to and from a Praxis Pass work in the same way except that:

  • when selecting a Praxis Pass, the outstanding value from all your accounts with Praxis Language will be applied to the new subscription
  • when selecting a single site subscription to replace a Praxis Pass the full outstanding value of the Praxis Pass will be applied, and then all your other accounts will be returned to free user status

Money Back Guarantee

ItalianPod offers a 30-day money back guarantee with no questions asked, provided you have made no subscription changes.

Money Back Guarantee does not apply to renewals, downgrades or upgrades where pre-existing credit value from from previous subscription is applied towards a purchase.

*Subscription 'change' refers to both upgrades and downgrades during the first 30-day period.

Praxis Credits

When you redeem a voucher, or if you change your account type and the new account is worth less than the old one, the value will be stored on your account as a Praxis Credit. This credit is available for any future purchase on this site or any other Praxis Language website.

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MP3 Lessons (Radio Quality)

These files play at 64 kbps. They are available to the public free of charge, and may be obtained either from the website or the public RSS feed. When you subscribe to our podcast via iTunes you will receive this kind of file.

MP3 Lessons (CD Quality)

These high quality audio files play at 128 kbps (kilobytes per second). Besides having the highest quality audio, this file they also includes the dialogue transcripts as meta data, allowing you to see dialog transcripts and translations directly on your iPod screen.

Custom RSS Lesson Feed

You can configure your personalized RSS feed to contain only the kind of files that you prefer and have them delivered directly to your computer.

PDF Lesson Transcripts

This is a text file that you can download to your computer. It includes the Dialogue Transcript with translations of every phrase, and a list of the Vocabulary and Supplementary Vocabulary for the lesson with translations, too.

Lesson Review Audio

This is an audio file with a review of the lesson’s vocabulary and some phrases where you can hear the words infull sentences. It was created to address a number of issues:

  1. Review. Review the key vocab for each lesson - including the expansion sentences. Memory and recall strategies are built-in.
  2. Speaking. The format is ‘generative’, meaning you’re actively challenged to produce words, sentences, etc.
  3. Pronunciation. Your focus, during the gaps in the audio, can be on recall, or on pronunciation.

Lesson Review Suite

This refers to the Dialogue, Vocabulary, Expansion and Exercises tabs that you can find for every lesson. In these sections you will find interactive ways of reviewing the lesson content.

Vocab Study Tools

In addition to the Vocabulary section, where the vocab and supplementary vocab for each lesson can be found, each user also has a personalized vocabulary list. You can manage your vocabulary list by adding or removing words, grouping them with different labels ,and reviewing them with the Flashcards tool or the Concentration Game.

iPhone Access

Take your lessons, vocab and conversations on-the-go with your iPhone and take advantage of any spare time to continue your studies. Please access at: http://m.italianpod.com/.

Counseling Session

This is a follow-up from a counselor online. The counselors will answer student questions in a personalized section so the student can get the most out of the ItalianPod learning system.

Personal Study Plan

Students will receive a call from one of the ItalianPod counselors in which the student’s needs and goals will be evaluated. The counselor will then provide astudy plan that fits the student’s Italian learning requirements.

Daily Speaking Practice

Executive Plan studentswill receive a daily 10-minute phone callduring which they can practice Italian with a native speaker. The speaking practice will be linked to the content of the lessons the student has studied in order to reinforce the content and allow true mastery.

Lesson Dialogue MP3s

These audio files accompany each lesson and contain only the lesson's dialogue.

Explanations and translations are omitted to allow learners to focus on the Italia dialogue alone.

This Premium learning tool is great for both previewing and reviewing a lesson.

This is a Paid Feature

This feature is only available to paid subscribers. ItalianPod offers 3 paid subscription types.

Basic Starting from $5 per month
Premium Starting from $17 per month
Praxis Starting from $23 per month

To find out more about these subscription types, please click here.
To upgrade your account, please click here.

This is a Premium Feature

This feature is only available to Premium and Praxis subscribers.

Premium Starting from $29 per month
Praxis Starting from $39 per month

To find out more about these subscription types, please click here.
To upgrade your account, please click here.