Italian Language Learning Links

 

Gesti/Gestures                                                                                            Source: City College of San Francisco

 

CCSF Instructor Giorgio Spanò and the CCSF TMI have produced a series of videos portraying common gestures in Italian. The videos are organized by theme. Students will need RealPlayer to view.

http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Departments/Language_Lab/gesti/00Gesti.htm

 

Parliamo italiano! 2nd ed.                                                                               Source: Houghton Mifflin Publishers

 

Site contains self-correcting quizzes, links to cultural sites covered in each chapter of an Italian language text, and more.

http://college.hmco.com/languages/italian/branciforte/parliamo/2e/students/index.html

 

Centro Studi Italiani                                                                                                  Source: Centro Studi Italiani

 

Online Italian lessons and grammar information. Try the interactive exercises from The Exercise Mill.

http://www.locuta.com/

 

Italianissimo                                                                                                                                       Source: BBC

 

A series of multimedia activities for beginners based on clips from the 20-part TV series, Italianissimo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/issimo/