Welcome to Online Italian Help! Spoken by nearly 63 million people, Italian is the official langauge of Italy. It is also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Switzerland. There also exist large Italian immigrant populations in countries such as the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

Since the Renaissance, it has been considered the language best suited to poetry and singing. Most operas are written in Italian and many other great works of art have been done by Italians.