Is The Law According to Lidia Poët good for learning Italian?

Yes, at intermediate level. This period legal drama has clear speech and a clever heroine who argues her cases, so you get careful spoken Italian in full sentences, with a good story set in 1880s Turin to pull you along.

Level

Intermediate

Format

Drama

Year

2023

Episodes

18

Length

about 51 min each

From

Netflix

Why it works for learners

Lawyers explain themselves, and that is useful. Lidia reasons through cases aloud, questions people and defends her views, so you hear well-formed arguments and polite, formal address. The period setting favours a tidier register than modern teen shows use, and each case gives you a self-contained story within a wider arc. At about 51 minutes across 18 episodes, it offers a good amount of listening in one consistent style.

What makes it hard

Legal terms and 19th-century manners add vocabulary you will not need day to day. The formal register may also mislead you, since modern Italians will not speak this way. Conversations about law, medicine and investigation pack in details that matter for following each case.

How to use it

Watch one case at a time and follow Lidia's reasoning, noting words like those that signal cause and objection. Replay a courtroom or argument scene with Italian subtitles if available. Then try summarising her argument aloud in two or three sentences of your own.

More for Italian learners: our Italian guides.