Artikulate uses language specifications that give a list of all available phonemes of that languge (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme for in-deep explenation). In short, a phoneme is a natural sound of a language. We need such a phonology to be able to assign phoneme tags to phrases. This is, we enable a user to select which phonemes she/he want to improve and show only phrases respective this setting.

One of the languages that is missing is Italian. A starting point for the work can be this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_phonology

This must be transformed to an XML file that is defined by scheme artikulate.git:/schemes/language.xsd 
Example files for German and English can be found in folder artikulate.git:/data/languages
You can either fetch the repository or browse it at http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=artikulate.git

For setting up Artikulate see: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/Artikulate