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Jun 2025
32m 37s

Cars and Driving | Italian for Travelers...

Postcards from Italy Podcast
About this episode

In today’s episode, we learn all about driving in Italy and follow Kristi as she rents a car and stops for directions. Elisa also helps us decode Italian road signs and driving rules in Italy.

But to get the most out of Italian for Travelers, head to our website and subscribe to our premium online course. You’ll get:

  • A phone-friendly & clickable PDF of all our mini-glossaries ← the perfect travel buddy for Italian learners!
  • Full episodes (we only stream a portion of our conversations!)
  • Dialogue transcripts
  • Listen-and-repeat audio glossaries (no banter, just vocabulary to practice your pronunciation)
  • Practice lessons 
  • … and so much more!

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