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Language Links: Italian

News & Media Language Associations
Travel & Study Abroad Italian Local Connections
Shopping Teaching Resources

French and Italian Languages & Literatures

News and Media

Selection of links to Italian websites for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other media.

La Repubblica (news, politics)
Corriere della sera (news, politics)
La Stampa (news, politics)
L'espresso (news, politics)
Panorama (news, politics)
Internazionale (international news, politics)
Donna Moderna (fashion, everyday life)
Starbene (health)
Barilla (recipes)

Travel and Study Abroad

Selection of links to Italian airlines and train stations, main cities and study abroad programs.

Alitalia (airline)
Trenitalia
ATAC (public transportation, Rome)
ATM (public transportation, Milan)
ATAF (public transportation, Florence)

Official tourism office
Tourist guides
Last minute deals
Rome (official website)
Milan (official website)
Florence (official website)
Naples (official website)

Study abroad programs (CU)
Au pair

Shopping

Links to websites selling Italian products (music, book, etc...)

Bol (books and music)
Amazon (type in title in italian)
Stradivarius (music)
Discolandmail (music)

Language Associations

Links to Italian language associations.

Modern Languages Association
AATI (Italian Teachers Association)

Local Connections

Links to Italian stores, restaurants, museums, etc, located in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area.

Mountain Italian-American Chamber of Commerce

Italian Festival Denver

Laudisio (Boulder)
Frasca (Boulder)
Carellis (Boulder)
Barolo grill (Denver)

Teaching Resources

Links to Italian teaching resources.

Language Instruction

LingoFox http://konjugator.lingofox.de/de/index.php?id=conjugate_italian This is a website to bookmark ASAP. Students can enter any Italian verb in the search box in order to find the way it is conjugated or to find its infinitive form. (In German, but easy to use.)

Eserciziario per corsi di lingua italiana http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ngargano/corsi/varia/index.html this website is entirely in italian and provides practice activities focused on grammar.

Descriptive grammar of the Standard italian language

Descriptive Grammar http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Italian/Grammar/ This website is entirely in English and provides an extensive review of the Italian grammar. There are four main sections: Phonology and writing, Morphology, Synthax and Derivation.

Culture & Society

An Introduction to Baroque Art http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/romlang/art/ An Introduction to Baroque Art has a simple and straightforward interface. This website can be assigned as homework as a thorough introduction to this topic or used in the classroom as a team activity.

Vatican website (reference) http://www.vatican.va/phome_it.htm This beautiful multimedia is available in six languages. Students can practice thier reading skills. It also provides virtual tours of the Vatican, and its art galleries and a 360° view of the frescoes of the sistine chapel.

Literature

Classici online (instructional) http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3classici_on_line/index.html This multimedia website contains four italian short stories from the turn of the 20th century in audio and written format. It has glossaries as well as Quicktime video interviews and instructional activities.

Digital Dante http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/ This website offers a wealth of resources on Dante's inferno, including a biography of the author, chronologies, full versions of the Divine Comedy as well as a rich collection of images and art work.

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