As of today (Dec 19th 2025) I’m now Intermediate 1 level in Italian on LingQ, which is roughly equivalent to B1. In my experience with other languages B1 is similar to elementary school graduate level, and is the level that many countries require as a minimum for citizenship by naturalization.
I started on Nov 8th 2025, it’s now Dec 19th 2025. That would mean 42 days, except I skipped 10 days completely, so I got from 0 to Intermediate 1 in 32 days of usage. I am not taking any classes or anything outside of LingQ yet.
Currently I’m reading Animal Farm by George Orwell in Italian and am on chapter 4. I’ve also read several news articles, some random blurbs about history, and other stuff I can’t remember.
As for TV, I’ve finished watching the movies (and importing the subtitles into LingQ) of The Sicilian Connection, Zootopia 1, and 8 episodes (around 52 min each) of The Man in the High Castle. The Sicilian Connection was the easiest, and The Man in the High Castle has been second easiest for most of its episodes. Note that these are shows for adults.
I first began my studies with finding text that had the most words in common with English. This turned out to be news articles for Italian adults written about American political events. Then I started struggling through fiction and other types of texts, which had less words in common with English.
Now as part of my daily schedule, I will read/watch one thing I was doing previously, such as another TV episode in a series. Then I will find a few short texts, maybe just 200 words, on a random topic with the highest percentage of unknown words I can find. I read them just to add a bunch more LingQs. Then I go back to the TV show, novel or whatever I was doing before, which has a lower percentage of new words per piece.
If a word is the name of a person, or exactly the same as in English, or in a foreign language, etc, I hit the ignore button so it doesn’t mess up my count.
As of right now my total stats for Italian, all time, are:
Known words - 8,671
Words until Intermediate 2 - 8,609
Reading - 103,124 words
Listening - 10.53 hours
LingQs Created - 5,762
LingQs Learned - 399
Speaking - 0
Writing - 84 (I only tried this once, with LingQ’s AI chatbot)
Study Time - 44:29 hours (not sure how they count this, I have left the window open on my computer and stepped away several times. I also use LingQ on my phone.)
Reading Speed - began at 7, it is now 39.
Lessons Completed - 96
Lessons Taken - 312
Lessons Imported - 229 (this stat is useless, it splits up one file into multiple “lessons”)
Translations used - 11,694
Translations shared - 6,076
Days Actually Used LingQ For Italian - (all time = between Nov 8th & Dec 19th 2025) - 32