Learn Italian with The Law According to Lidia Poët
Yes, The Law According to Lidia Poët is a B2-level pick for Italian learners. Italy's first female lawyer takes on 1880s Turin in this stylish period drama. The diction is crisp and standard, but a formal register plus courtroom and 19th-century vocabulary lift it to B2.
Key takeaways
- The Law According to Lidia Poët is a B2-level pick for Italian, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- A sharp period legal drama with formal, courtroom Italian.
- It runs 3 seasons, 18 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 l'avvocata and la legge.
- 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
- 3 seasons, 18 episodes
- Original audio
- Italian
- Genre
- period, legal, crime, romance
- 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 The Law According to Lidia Poët
- l'avvocata
- female lawyer
- la legge
- law
- il processo
- trial
- il tribunale
- court
- l'indagine
- investigation
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Frequently asked questions
- Is The Law According to Lidia Poët good for learning Italian?
- Yes, at B2. The delivery is clear and standard, but the period setting brings formal and legal vocabulary, so graded subtitles help with the courtroom scenes.