Italian ALMA Edizioni 2014
Practise Nuovo Espresso 1 on-the-go.
Short audio courses for each chapter that you can do on the go.
Browse chapters.
How it works.
Step 1
Pick the chapter your class is on.
- — 7 short lessons per chapter
- — Set around the chapter's topics
- — Built on grammar your class has already met
ItalianNuovo Espresso 1, chapter 1: A taxi from the station
Listen to Beppe and Megan, then try the first five lessons from this chapter’s course.
Lesson 1
Greeting someone in the evening
Lesson 2
Giving an address
Lesson 3
Saying where you're from
Lesson 4
Asking for a phone number
Lesson 5
Asking someone's name
Step 2
Do one lesson a day that week.
- — No new app to download
- — Each lesson arrives in WhatsApp
- — 10 minutes each, whenever it suits you
Morning
Ready for your lesson?
Lesson 1 of 7
Greeting someone in the evening
Course: Nuovo Espresso 1, chapter 1: A taxi from the station
Step 3
Listen, practise, then try it yourself.
- — Hear the chapter's topics in a real conversation
- — Practise the key phrases aloud
- — Call HearSay and try it yourself
Step 4
Ask about anything from class.
- — Questions about the chapter's grammar
- — Answers in the same WhatsApp chat
- — Start the next course when your class moves on
Hear this line: “Buonasera! È libero?” What would you say next?
Listen to the next reply, then say it aloud: “Buonasera! Sì, prego.”
Can I practise that reply again?
Practising the first exchange
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Dylan Frequently asked questions.
No. HearSay is not affiliated with or endorsed by ALMA Edizioni, and Nuovo Espresso 1 is a trademark of its owner. We write our own conversations and characters around each chapter's themes, and nothing is copied from the book.
No. Each course works without the book, with its own conversations and audio. If your class uses the book, the course for the chapter you're on goes alongside it.
Start with the chapter your class is on. If you're learning without a class, start with chapter 1. Each course uses the grammar from its chapter and the ones before it, apart from a few set phrases, so the courses work best in order.
HearSay sends you personalised audio language lessons as voice messages on WhatsApp. Each lesson is a real conversation between native speakers, built around a topic you choose and matched to your level.
You listen and speak along while walking, driving, or cooking. An AI tutor in the same chat answers your questions, explains grammar, and creates new lessons whenever you ask.
No. HearSay runs entirely inside WhatsApp, so there's nothing to install and no new app to remember. If your phone has WhatsApp, you're ready: your first lesson arrives in your chat a few minutes after you sign up.
HearSay uses the audio-lingual method: you learn by hearing real dialogues, speaking along, and actively recalling phrases, with spaced repetition bringing them back just as you're about to forget.
A good rule of thumb: once you get around 80% of a lesson's phrases right, you're ready to move on. Plenty of learners repeat a lesson a few times first, and that's completely fine.
Yes. You speak out loud in every lesson, repeating and recalling phrases before you hear the answer. You're never recorded during lessons, so you can practise comfortably even in public.
At the end of a lesson you can join an optional role-play call to act out the conversation with your AI tutor. Those calls are recorded, and personalised feedback on your speaking is coming soon.
You can learn 20 languages with HearSay, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, plus regional variants like Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
You also learn in your own language: all 20 are supported as your native language too, so you can learn Russian as a French speaker or Spanish as a German speaker. Switch languages whenever you like.
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