Italian General Practice

Italian Online

• Emily Wilhite's WepageLinks for Dr. Carle's Italian classes: In giro per l'Italia
• Adesso — Website to accompany Italian textbook. Contains language practice, culture, and internet activities.
• Italian Pronunciation and Basic Grammar
• You Too Can Learn Italian! — Gives three little Italian lessons. Includes a lot of good vocabulary, info on pronunciation, numbers, some verbs, etc.
• Oggi E Domani — Site contains 20 Italian lessons and links to other Italian sites. Unfortunately, the chat room is no longer available.
• Italian Literature — An anthology of some Italian literature with excerpts from the works.
• Teach Yourself Italian — Gives some basic phrases useful for traveling. Also includes a few links.
• Ciao! — This site is kinda neat — here is their intro: "Welcome at Ciao! — an Italian language course. Ciao! is designed to make repetition & brushing up easy. The information is cut up in pieces that fit a screen. Every 10 seconds, a new page is presented. Use the back button if it goes too quickly." It starts with very basic grammar and goes from there. Also contains some links.
• Leisure Italian — A really nice site that requires Real Audio and Shockwave.
• Iluss Italiano online — Gives some lessons free and other for payment.
• Garzanti Linguistica — This page contains in Italian-Italian dictionary. Probably good for use later on. The site is entirely in Italian.
• The Italian Electronic Classroom — This site contains phrases and some grammar lessons. Here is their intro: "The Italian Electronic Classroom!TM is a project of Centro Studi ItalianiTM, aimed at providing free online, useful information on difficult aspects of the Italian language to students, teachers, translators, writers."
• Italian Newspapers Online — This is a list of the sites of a lot of Italian newspapers. Therefore most of the links here will probably lead you to sites that are completely in Italian.
• Radio Locator — This is a locator for radio stations in Italy. You might need some special software to listen. Maybe a good site to try at home if you would like to hear some Italian music.
• Italian Resources — Another list of links. These will take you to sites more about culture than grammar. Will probably be all in Italian.
• Augmenting the Study of Italian Using the Web — Another list of links. Here is the site's intro: "There are innumerable resources on the web for augmenting language study. Note that I say augmenting. It would be difficult using the resources that I have found to study a language comprehensively. The web simply provides what many language courses can not offer, a wide array of information in the language. If one has articles, daily news, stories, poems, cultural information, et cetera, in the language, one is likely to find something that will give the extra desire to learn the language. Most teachers will agree that students with desire learn material better.
• Cyber Italian — A site with online lessons. It's a pay site, but has a free demo lesson.
• Italian: Romance Language of 60 Million — This site belongs to a linguistics student from Michigan that I met on the internet. She has good summaries of many different languages, including Italian. She also gives a lot of good hints about tips to use when studying a foreign language.
• Italian for Travelers — Another pay site with a free demo lesson.
• Learning Italian.com — This site requires you to become a member, but it is free. However, the little lessons are designed to go with a workbook.

Other Italian Links:

• Super Italian Websites — Here you will find lots of sites that can be helpful to you for learning more about Italy and the Italian language and culture. There are many sites that link to others that can be useful to you as well.
• I Love Languages — This site is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. It contains many great links to language lessons on the web.
• SCOLA's Italian Insta-Class Page — This page contains lessons online as well as the ability to download the free Acrobat Reader for .pdf files and the free Real Player for Real Audio files.
• ABA — Institute of Italian Language "Galileo Galilei". Language school based in Florence
• Guerra EdizioniMaterial for teachers and learners of Italian, including an online forum to discuss problems with the language, a chat room, activities and exercises, and lots of links to Italian sites.
• Internet Resources: Italian — A categorized list of links to Italian resources on the Internet.
• Italia 2000 — A much-improved site for intermediate to advanced learners of Italian. There are twelve study units, each based around a video clip and containing java and javascript exercises, a glossary and transcript, and sound clips from the video. The project has also published a software and video package in conjunction with Giunti Multimedia. Italia 2000 is a European Union LINGUA project. Recommended.
• Italian-English Dictionaries — Links to online dictionaries of use to Italian-English translation — monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual. Includes some very useful and hard-to-find dictionaries (eg Information Technology, proverbs, Medicine).
• Italian irregular verbs — 110 of the most common irregular verbs fully conjugated.
• Italian verbs — Regular verb forms, and some irregular verbs, conjugated.
• TuttItalia — "Il sito dedicato all'italianistica." A collection of annotated links to Italian resources, including Language, Mass Media, and Society.