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RESOURCES
TRANSLATIONS:
Wordreference - also available as App on Iphone
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BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
Author of a couple of books. She has an English/ Italian blog but she stopped posting in 2022. Plenty of interesting articles though to still read through.
She writes mostly in Italian (advanced) and sometimes English
This site offers tools and resources you need to make learning a language easy and fun. You will find interactive resources that vary from reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary, and dictation.
VIDEOS:
This site offers Videos at various levels. It’s possible to slow down the speaking, add subtitles in both languages and some videos have exercise and vocab. Annual Fee of $99. Sign up for newsletter.
GAMES/APPS:
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NEWSLETTER:
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BOOKS:
GRAMMAR
Practice makes perfect. Basic Italian 3rd edition by Alessandra Visconti
Easy Italian Step by Step by Paola Nanni Tate (grammar)
Italian Verb Drills by Paola Nanni Tate (grammar)
Italian Grammar Drills by Paola Nanni Tate (grammar)
READING:
Easy Italian Reader by Riccarda Saggese
The book gets a little harder every story.
La Bella Lingua by Diane Hales
(History of Italian Language, in english)
Easy reader, beginners A1
Easy reader, beginners A1
Easy reader, beginners A2
Italian Short Stories For Beginners Volume 1 by Touri Language
Italian Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2 by Touri Language
NON AMAZON SOURCES FOR BOOKS:
This site offers a broad selection of easy readers at every level.
This site offers a broad selection of easy readers and normal books for fluent readers. They have a brick and mortar location in San Francisco.
PODCASTS: * Please notice the links below are from Spotify*
Quattro stagioni con Laura by Alessandra Pasqui.
About travel mostly. she talks fairly slow. Beginners to intermediate vocabulary
https://en.podcastquattrostagioni.ch for translation.
intermediate level. Brief episodes.
Speak Italiano.Pensieri e parole.
Brief episodes. Slowish italian. She has a bit of an accent. Interesting, varied topics.
Beginners, intermediate. Slow. Interesting.
Storytelling. Interesting. Beginners to Intermediate. Some famous stories, others less, adapted for language.
In some episodes she gives level of fluency (example A1). https://italiandolearnitalianwithsilvia.com/
not so slow. various topics, including modi di dire, vocab, culture, etc. Available on you tube
MOVIES AND TV SERIES:
Incastrati- Framed (netflix)
2 series. Short 25 minute episodes, comic murder mystery
La legge secondo Lidia Poet- The law according to Lidia Poet (netflix)
Murder mystery, 8 episode based on the first female lawyer
Una semplice domanda (netflix)
My brother, my sister (netflix)
An astrological Guide for broken hearts (Netflix)
Love e Gelato (available in Italian)
BEGINNERS SONGS:
La Vasca di Alex Britti
https://www.adgblog.it/2011/12/12/5050100-e-oltre-canzoni-per-imparare-litaliano/
On future and present tense
La luna Piena:
present + sapere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9Huc3DG7M
https://www.adgblog.it/2010/06/14/italiano-con-le-canzoni-luna-piena/
La ragazza tipica italiana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CEAUCaecA
https://www.adgblog.it/2010/08/10/italiano-con-le-canzoni-la-tipica-ragazza-italiana/
Con le mani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVwAr24bNSI
https://www.adgblog.it/2010/04/12/italiano-con-le-canzoni-le-mani-di-zucchero/
Felicita’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHDT45RLwyE
Baciami ancora:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2ytGrvcZc
Un raggio di sole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xcqpqolxhY
La canzone del sole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veG3EprdqZo
COOKING:
You can select the language (English or Italian)- app available but only in Italian
Some recipes have videos