Italian
Resources
Textbook Audio Files:
http://stream.mcl.uconn.edu/
You may access all lab audio files for your textbook via this password-protected server. You will need a computer with Internet access and the user name and password provided by your instructor.
About.com's
Italian Language Home Page
http://italian.about.com/
This site has a wealth of topics for students of Italian overseen by
a guide who maintains the links and supplies informative articles. All
site guides and chat moderators have the appropriate expertise in their
subject matter — you can check out their bios online — and
you can email them your questions or comments
American
Association of Teachers of Italian
http://www.italianstudies.org/aati/
The American Association of Teachers of Italian was founded in 1924
to promote the study of Italian language, literature, and culture in
schools, colleges and universities in North America. It has approximately
1500 members worldwide. The Association publishes the quarterly journal,
Italica, and a twice-yearly Newsletter. It sponsors seminars
and workshops in the broad area of Italian studies and holds annual
meetings, usually in conjunction with ACTFL but also in Italy. AATI
is dedicated to excellence in teaching and research in all areas of
Italian studies.
Connecticut-Italy
Partnership
Resource Center for Italian Language and Culture
http://www.ccsu.edu/Italian/
Supported by
the State of Connecticut Department of Education and the Education Office
of the Consulate General of Italy, this center offers Italian language
teachers in Connecticut collections of authentic Italian materials provided
by the Italian American Committee on Education (IACE), an institution
sponsored by the Consulate General for promoting Italian language and
culture in the tri-state area. This site is in Italian or English and
provides information about hours, holdings and announcements.
CyberItalian
Created by Maura Garau, Director of the Italian Language Program for
the UNSRC Circolo Culturale Italiano at the United Nations since 1992,
and instructor of Italian language (advanced level) at the New School
University-New York, this site presents 30 interactive lessons with
pictures, cultural notes, activities, easy grammatical explanations,
self-administered exercises and exams, 1000 audio files (wav and/or
RealAudio), 3000 words used in the lessons and listed in the Glossary,
more than 100 links. Although fee-based, you can try out some lessons
and activities. Be sure to take a look at the following sections:
Alfabeto
e Pronuncia
http://www.cyberitalian.com/html/alphabet.htm
A nice pronunciation site using the figure of Pinocchio and the familiar
alphabet book organizer (visual reinforcement) with audio clips. Sounds
are grouped into categories such as letters of the alphabet, foreign
letters and combined consonants. An interesting addition is a section
providing audio examples of different stresses within words and sentences,
vowel/diphthong combinations, double consonants, as well as examples
of dialectics and regional accents. Your computer must be able to handle
.wav and real audio files.
Daily
Weather of Italy:
Weather Underground: Italy
http://italian.wunderground.com/global/IY.html
Italica
http://www.italica.org/index.htm
A web site dedicated to the language and culture of Italy. This site
uses multimedia (audio, video, interactive exercises) to good effect.
La
Divina Commedia
L'Inferno
http://www.italica.org/rubriche/multimedia/divinacommedia/divinacommedia.htm
Would you like to listen to a dramatic reading of Dante's Inferno
(in Italian, of course) while reading the text? Just make sure you
have Realplayer installed on your computer.
A series
of contextualized language exercises from the University of Notre
Dame including audio, video and text
http://www.italica.org/principali/lingua/index.htm
Be sure to check out the song by Toto Cotugno on the first lesson:
http://www.italica.org/principali/lingua/lessons/l_italiano/testo.htm
Lauren
Rosen's (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Italian links
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/italian.html
Nicely organized, good, brief descriptions, and well-maintained.
L'Italia
In Realta' Virtuale
http://www.compart-multimedia.it/virtuale/it/home.htm
Virtual tours of monuments and locations in Rome, Pisa and Napoli.
Maps of Italian regions:
http://mappe.virgilio.it/mappe/
Porto
della Generale del Sole: Metropolis:
Plenty of information regarding dining, entertainment, culture, sports,
etc., in the following cities, predominately in Italian:
Firenze
http://www.porto.it/metropolis/firenze.htm
*Nice virtual
tour of one room in the Uffizi which displays two of Leonardo Da
Vinci's paintings.
Milano
http://www.porto.it/metropolis/milano.htm
Napoli
http://www.porto.it/metropolis/napoli.htm
*You can find a very nice virtual
tour of the major sites of Napoli
Roma
http://www.porto.it/metropolis/roma.htm
RaiClick
http://www.raiclick.rai.it/
A large variety of Italian films that you can view online using
RealAudio.
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