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Premium Members, your Premium Account just got a whole lot more powerful! My Flashcards now allows you to study the Italian words you want by importing lists from audio and video lessons, your My WordBank and the Italian Core Word Lists 2000. Here’s a quick rundown of the new features:

My Flashcards Dashboard: My Flashcards have a brand new interface. Import words from any audio and video lesson, My WordBank and the Core Word Lists. Create, edit and delete as many decks as you want!

Create a New Deck: How you want to study is completely up to you! You control what displays on the front and back of cards. Create new decks out of the existing words in My Flashcards. Simple pick the words, name your deck and you’re ready to study.

Front of Card Display: The new My Flashcards load fast and are easy to use. Test yourself with native audio recordings. When you’re ready for the answer, simply click on the card to flip it over.

Back of Card Display: Learning sometimes isn’t as simple as just Right or Wrong. Our smart spaced repetition system will evaluate your progress from the three answer choices so you test more of what you need. Get extra review with sample sentences and audio.

My Stats: We track your progress in My Stats. Don’t just learn new words - master them! This chart will keep you motivated to master all the words in your deck!

My Flashcards is still in beta mode, which means, we’re still working out some kinks. If you’re a Premium Member, head over to My Flashcards under My Tools to try them out. These flashcards are part of your Premium Subscription. Something not working? Send us a message at contactus@italianpod101.com .

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We listened to your comments and you’ve been heard! A redesigned ItalianPod101.com is here! Don’t worry, your favorite hosts haven’t gone anywhere. We’ve just upgraded ItalianPod101’s website to give you an even faster, easier, and more enjoyable way to learn Italian!

What’s New and Improved?

• Beginner to Advanced — we’ve made it easier to find the right lessons for you!
• Track your progress by marking lessons complete and viewing your progress bar!
• No more jumping around — get an entire lesson’s content and join in on the discussion in one place!
• Easily find the best-of-the-best lessons based on other member ratings and feedback!
• Get thorough search results that provide direct links to relevant lessons and dictionary entries!

These are just a few of the changes we’ve made. Take a look for yourself with the ItalianPod101.com Tutorial Series!

Today’s video: My Account: Tell Us About Yourself!
We want to know about you! By telling us about your language level and goals, we can tailor your ItalianPod101.com experience to suit your needs. Watch now!

We hope you enjoy the new ItalianPod101.com! Send your feedback and comments to contactus@italianpod101.com. We want to hear from you!

ItalianPod101.com Team

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How to Really Learn Italian in Just Minutes a Day and Stick with it

The Myth

What if I told you mastering Italian wasn’t that hard. That actually learning the language itself is not nearly as difficult as you may have heard. And that the problem to progressing is an age old one…failure to execute.

The Real Issue

Said another way, “People don’t progress ’cause they don’t do! If you don’t do the work, you won’t reach your goals.” Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the ItalianPod101.com blog, Feature Spotlight. Here we would like to periodically introduce some well known features as well as some not so well known features here at ItalianPod101.com. We want to make sure everyone knows about all the great features that you can use to master Italian in just minutes a day.

Today we would like to introduce My Feed. This is a fully customizable RSS feed. What’s that mean? Well, for those that haven’t studied up on the latest Web 2.0 technology, that basically allows Premium members to decide exactly what lesson content they want on their Premium feed.

Here’s 3 simple steps on how you can use My Feed to really master Italian:

1. You decide exactly what you want.
2. You download what you want with a single click of a button.
3. You master Italian in minutes a day - in your own way.

It’s really that simple.

To learn more about My Feed check out the video below or if you’re a Premium member, click here to get started now.

(Sorry, the video’s a little outdated, but it still works perfectly for ItalianPod101.com!)

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from everyone here at ItalianPod101.com! We’re grateful to have listeners just like you, and we’re eagerly waiting for the upcoming year to learn Italian together!

And when the New Year comes around, be sure to make a resolution to study Italian with ItalianPod101.com!

Have a healthy and happy holiday season.

From the ItalianPod101.com team!