You can study Italian for months and still freeze when it's time to talk. Parlita fixes that by making you speak from the first session: real conversations with an AI partner, living stories you act inside, and the words you stumble on woven into spaced repetition so they stick.
What learning Italian is actually like
Italian is about as forgiving as a language gets when it comes to opening your mouth. It is written the way it sounds, the rhythm does a lot of the work for you, and beginners simply sound better in Italian than they do in anything else, which is worth more than it looks because it keeps your nerve up in the weeks where nerve is the scarce resource.
The verbs are where the work actually is. There are a lot of endings, they carry real meaning, and the subjunctive turns up in ordinary conversation more than it does in Spanish, so you meet it earlier than you would like. Cognates carry you a long way in the meantime. Just note that morbido means soft, and there are a few dozen more like it waiting.