Italian Links
Library shelfmark: IT
LASR Courses in Italian
OPAL Courses in Italian
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The library's Delicious page offers you also a section of multimedia language links and the Netvibes page offers you the latest news. There are also extended e-resources available at Oxford.
Many of our Italian weblinks have been very kindly provided by Dr. Giuseppe Stellardi of St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
External links
Below are the links to the external websites. Language Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these websites.
Useful Links / Language Resources / Media / Culture / Search Engines / Miscellany
Useful Links
- Italian at Oxford
- Italian Cultural Institute
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford since 1999-2000. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain. The listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are in the library with audio cassettes available for the listening comprehension examination
- Spartacoeduca Vilma de Gasperin website containing copies of the official examination papers
- University of Leeds, Italian Department
- Virgilio guide to the Italian internet
Language Resources
- General
- A vicenda: lingua / cultura audio programme from the 2009 textbook
- BBC Languages: Italian variety of levels. Includes a list of broadcasting schedules for Italian learning programmes (The Learning Zone): Italian for Work; Italian Steps (an online course for beginners); Talk Italian, Italianissimo (with video clips) and QuickFix (basic phrases). The site has a placement test to help learners determine their current level.
- Dentro l'Italiano corsa elementare
- Houghton Mifflin's at Cengage Italian Language Resource designed to assist both instructors and students. Features links to a variety of authentic materials, including cultural, linguistic, current media and maps.
- ILUSS - ITALIANO ONLINE a non-profit organization which promotes Italian language and culture abroad.
- In Giro per Italia a brief Introduction to Italian. A comprehensive test for beginner's Italian. The textbook is in the library.
- Italian 100 web exercises Supplementary exercises for an Italian course at the University of Victoria
- Io parlo Italiano a course for people wishing to live in Italy
- Oggi in Italia the textbook is also in the library
- Scudit.net online course material by level from the Scud'It, Scuola d'Italiano, Roma
- SSLMIT corpus from La Repubblica, University of Bologna , access is free but you need to register
- Local languages and dialects of Italian
- Calabrian: proverbs and dictionary verbs (see also Sicilian)
- Corsican lexicon with French Latin
- Piemontese a short guide
- Romanesco: introduction
- Venetan: dictionary
- Dictionaries
- Grammar
- Centro Studi Italiani eclass Grammar fact sheets and exercises
- Dig-Itale Eduware exercises from J.A. Campana at the University of Toronto
- Writing
- Tandem The International E-Mail Tandem Network: Language Learning in Tandem via the Internet
- Edinburgh University: Digital Variants Hypertext versions of contemporary Italian writers' work, tracing the compositional process using comparison of variants
- Vocabulary
- Smart Phrase. Smart Phrase Online Phrasebook Useful vocabulary and phrase finders in Italian.
Media
Please note: the news is recorded daily and is available for viewing in the library.
Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page
- Online
- Apogeo Online
- Caffè Europa
- Dueparole:il mensile de facile lettura Online newspaper designed for foreign students of Italian
- Naufragi
- Radio
- QSL net Italian radio links
- Italiamia Italian radio links
- Can't find online radio for your language? Try our multilingual page
- TV
- RAI Educational
- RSI La 1 (Switzerland)
- RSL La 2 (Switzerland)
- RTV Slo (Slovenia)
- SanMarinoRTV (San Marino)
- Sky It
Culture
- Biblioteca digitale IntraText Online digital archive of Italian literary, theatrical and religious works
- Cinecitta Luce
- City of Florence Official web site of the Municipality of Florence
- Digital Variants Online archive of Italian contemporary literature
- Italian Cultural Institute
- Letteratura.it
- Italian woman writers from the University of Chicago
- Medieval Italy
- National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci"
- Nuovo rinascimento
- Sette lezioni online History and literature of Southern Italy
- The Italian Renaissance Bibliography of academic sources on the Renaissance
- Torino film festival
- Tourism in Tuscany
Search Engines
Miscellany
- Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
- Monetos multilingual research and information portal, offering independent instruction and advice on Europe's social and private financial sectors
- Society for Italian Studies
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