Learn Italian with Zero
Yes, Zero is a B2-level pick for Italian learners. A shy teenager who can turn invisible is drawn into saving his Milan neighbourhood. The sci-fi premise is simple, but the fast, slang-rich speech of multi-ethnic Milanese youth and overlapping dialogue push it to B2.
Key takeaways
- Zero is a B2-level pick for Italian, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- A Milanese superhero teen drama with fast, slangy speech.
- It runs 1 season, 8 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'invisibilità and il quartiere.
- 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, 8 episodes
- Original audio
- Italian
- Genre
- teen, superhero, fantasy
- 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 Zero
- l'invisibilità
- invisibility
- il quartiere
- neighbourhood
- il potere
- power
- il coraggio
- courage
- l'amicizia
- friendship
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Zero good for learning Italian?
- Yes, at B2. The plot is easy to follow, but the fast youth slang and overlapping Milanese speech make it an upper-intermediate listen best paired with graded subtitles.