Log on to the Italian section of the BBC languages site for a free 12-week beginner's course, as well as various resources for further learning, including a test to gauge your progress. You can also log on to ELanguage School's Italian page for tutorials on verb conjugation, grammar, basic pronunciation, and helpful words and phrases.
Participate in a free online language exchange with a native Italian speaker. Visit the My Language Exchange website and go to the search function to provide information about your language needs. The site will match you with an Italian speaker who is looking to improve his English. Online language exchanges are available via email, text or voice chat, with half the session conducted in Italian and the other half conducted in English.
Listen to Italian radio to familiarize you with the spoken language and keep it fresh in your mind. At the end of each session with your online conversation partner, log on to Multilingual Books' Italian radio page to access many Italian radio stations.
Read Italian news by logging on to onlinenewspapers.com and selecting Italy. Reading newspaper articles immediately after listening to the radio will further reinforce your vocabulary and familiarize you with the spelling of the words and phrases you have heard.
Write down unfamiliar Italian words and phrases you come upon during your studies and log on to WordReference.com for their English equivalents. In addition to providing English translations of Italian words, the site also offers useful phrases and idiomatic expressions in which words appear.
Watching Italian movies and television is an entertaining, relaxing approach to acquiring the language. Numerous Italian-language films are available for instant viewing at online movie rental outlets. Log on to Beeline TV's Italian page to watch Italian television programs for free.