Information on learning Italian
To the students of the Italian Course. April 16, 2016
As we talked about at the last Cultural group meeting with a few of the students in the class, here are the links to some of the videos and sites to help you review your Italian lessons.
I have collected and copied some of these lessons in a folder in my Google drive that I have used in the last 2 summers to introduce the language to the middle school students that participate in the Youth Ambassador Exchange Program (part of Walnut Creek Sister Cities program with Noceto (PM).
The 2015-2016 YAE Italian and Hungarian students were here this week. This concludes a very successful and enjoyable exchange and now we get to work for the 2016-2017 exchange.
The folder name is YAE- Noceto Language videos and audios
The link is:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B6thKAf0v59oZjBJUWhYdy1wWXM?resourcekey=0-P67leT15BRsj0_w_Em3oBQ
and it should be viewable to anyone with the link.
The subfolders are:
Rich Steve Italian Phrase book (This is a folder where I read the pages from the book I gave the students that they take with them to Italy)
and the Italian Living Course CDs both in CD format and Mp3 in subfolders, here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B6thKAf0v59oOWstZ3NGSmdMWk0
I copied these videos from YouTube and if you have problem accessing the Google Drive here are the original links and the sequence.
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 1 – Self Introductions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg3v35MHZSE
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 2 – Italian Manners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMgeHhIkY24
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 3 – Greetings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHbFhXvmqM
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 4 – Excuse me, do you speak English ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8P7ztVF_jM
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 5 – Apologizing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKyToI9v-bA
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 6 – Numbers 1-10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DLK985faHQ
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 7 – Numbers 11-100 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjw6PSC9x9o
Italiano in Tre Minuti – Lesson 8 – How Much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8obUlNNhHs4
Learn Italian by Txxytu Definite Articles and Possession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpMZc0uOWrQ&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Shopping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux2OmagwVW8&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Compliments and Congratulations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Act7_sYh0&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Travel Phrases in Italian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5eaPbEGm0&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njjpz97V7cU&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lpFyfPpIM&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Grammar Basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQJyxV0G94&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Grammar Basics 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dylh6H5g7uM&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
Learn Italian by Txxytu – Reflexive Verbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oi8CQS2sV8&list=PL167F8377A61D3CAF
There are hundreds of resources on the Internet to learn Italian. Some are completely free, some are free for sample lessons and some are subscription only.
The Italiano in tre minuti are the free lessons from http://www.italianpod101.com/
The offer a variety of courses.
DuoLingo
https://www.duolingo.com/course/it/en/Learn-Italian-Online
offers language courses (in dozens of language) in most platforms. I think that currently they are all free.
Free Italian lessons and Italian Children’s Stories
http://www.theitalianexperiment.com/
This is a very innovative site with a large free sample.
https://www.newsinslowitalian.com/italian-for-beginners/act1/una-nuova-avventura
https://www.newsinslowitalian.com/
Here is sites with private lessons using Skype:
http://www.verbalplanet.com/learn-italian.asp
https://www.livelingua.com/italian-lessons.php
http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/italian-language-lessons-on-skype.html
https://www.italki.com/teachers/italian
Here are a few of the language exchange sites where you can exchange to teach English (or another language) with an Italian that will teach you Italian using Skype or other methods:
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
http://www.conversationexchange.com/
http://www.language-exchanges.org/
http://it-it.wespeke.com/impara-le-lingue-online/impara-linglese.html
Italian Verbs Conjugation
http://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs.htm
http://www.sapere.it/sapere.html
http://becomingitalianwordbyword.typepad.com/becomingitalian/
Italian English Dictionaries
http://www.wordreference.com/enit/
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/
http://www.larousse.com/en/dictionaries/english-italian
http://dizionari.corriere.it/ (directory of dictionaries)
Vocabolario Italiano
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/
Basta per ora !
I am going to put this up in our website at http://www.italianamericanclub.org/latest-news-2/information-on-learning-italian/ in a semi private page so that if you recommend a site, I can update the page and we can all see it.
Joe