Italian vocabulary from your own lessons

Three things trip up a generic word list. Nouns carry gender, and the article is part of how the word is used, not decoration. Verbs change shape constantly, so a card that only shows the infinitive teaches the dictionary entry and not the language. And elision changes the written form: l’amico and l’amica are the same noun with different articles, and a learner who memorised amico has memorised half of each.

What survives translation is often the phrase. Vorrei un caffè, per favore is more immediately useful than three separate cards for its parts, and it teaches the conditional without a grammar lesson.

Word

il mercato, with the article attached

Meaning

one translation, in the language you already read in

Your sentence

the line from your lesson, kept as a fill-in-the-blank card

Form

a verb table when the lesson taught a verb

An app that treats Italian as a bag of strings will get all four of those wrong. The rest of this page is about how the import and review handle them.

Italian is one of seven vocabulary languages in LanguageRecap, next to English, Spanish, French, German, Latvian and Swedish. That matters less than the fact that some parts of the app go further for Italian than for the other five.

Articles stay with nouns. When a lesson is imported, the extraction step is told to return each Italian noun with its article in one string, matching the gender and number used in the lesson. You are not asked to glue il onto mercato yourself, and the card never shows a bare noun.

Verbs can be reviewed as forms. Conjugation review is available for Italian and English only. When your lesson contains verbs, the recap can add form practice to the queue, so andare is not one card but the forms the lesson actually used.

The grammar reference is Italian. Italian grammar covers articles, the present, imperfect and future forms of the three regular conjugations, plus essere and avere across tenses. It is a lookup you keep open in a second tab while you sort out a form, not a course.

The demo is Italian. The read-only workspace behind the demo is a seeded Italian learner account, so you can walk through a recap with real Italian words before importing anything of your own.

You paste the text of a lesson, or photograph a page, or upload a PDF. One AI pass reads the whole thing and returns a proposal: vocabulary with translations, a sentence from the lesson for each word, and verb forms where verbs appear. You delete whatever looks wrong or unnecessary, and what remains becomes your material.

For Italian that proposal is where the article rule and the phrase handling are applied. It is also the only step where AI is used on your content: review afterwards runs on your own saved cards, with no model involved, and the words and sentences you keep are stored per learner, not shared with other accounts.

How many imports a month you get depends on the plan. The pricing page has the current numbers and what is still early access.

A recap is short by design. A card shows the Italian word, article included, and you recall the meaning before it turns over. The cloze card takes the sentence from your lesson and hides the word inside it, which tests the word where you met it rather than in isolation.

For a verb, the recap’s next-activity row can offer form practice instead of another vocabulary card, so the same session can mix meanings and conjugations. A word card can also be read aloud with your device’s Italian voice; nothing recorded is downloaded, and the quality of that voice depends on the browser or phone.

The scheduler is spaced repetition, the same idea Anki and similar tools use. A word returns when it is about to be forgotten, and a word counts as learned after roughly three weeks of stability rather than after one correct answer.

Being precise about the edges is more useful than another feature list.

• There is no recorded native audio and no pronunciation scoring. The read-aloud uses the device voice.
• There is no course, no CEFR path and no placement test. The app starts from the lesson you bring it.
• There is no import from Anki or Quizlet decks, and no card authoring screen. Import is the authoring step.
• The grammar reference is lookup, not exercises. Nothing there asks you to produce a form.
• Only Italian and English get conjugation review, and only the grammar reference is language-specific today.

None of that is a promise about a roadmap. It is what exists the day this page was written.

A workable rhythm is one lesson import every two or three days and a ten-minute recap on the days between. That is enough new material to keep the queue alive and small enough that the queue still finishes.

Review is free and unlimited. If a week goes badly, the words do not disappear: everything stays scheduled, and the due count in the app is the honest answer to how far behind you are. Progress shows the words that reached the learned threshold and the fifty most recent of them.