Learn Italian with Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire
Yes, Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire is a B2-level pick for Italian learners. A married couple's fidelity frays in this introspective drama. The Milanese standard Italian is clean and the delivery slower, but the literary, abstract vocabulary about desire and betrayal makes it a B2 watch.
Key takeaways
- Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire is a B2-level pick for Italian, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- An introspective Milanese drama with literary vocabulary.
- It runs 1 season, 6 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real Italian listening.
- Against the 12 other Italian titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 3 of them.
- Expect everyday Italian such as la fedeltà and il tradimento.
- Watch it with Italian subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B2 (challenging)
- Best for
- upper-intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Original audio
- Italian
- Genre
- romance, drama, psychological
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 3 of 12 other Italian titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 13 Italian titles
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Italian words you'll hear in Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire
- la fedeltà
- faithfulness, fidelity
- il tradimento
- betrayal, affair
- il matrimonio
- marriage
- il desiderio
- desire
- la coppia
- couple
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Devotion good for learning Italian?
- Yes, at B2. The delivery is slower and the Italian clean, but the literary vocabulary about love and betrayal makes it upper-intermediate, so graded subtitles help.