Italian (Online)
How to learn Italian at the Language Centre including pathways, timetables and fees.
Hilary Term Course Timetable 2021
Information for non-members of the University is here. |
Course Pathway |
Stage* |
Part |
Duration |
Time of live session |
Date of first live session |
Date of final live session |
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ENROL | Academic (Online) | 2 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Fridays 13:00 - 14:00 | 29 January 2021 | 05 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesdays 11.00 - 12:00 | 26 January 2021 | 02 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesdays 16.30 - 17:30 | 26 January 2021 | 02 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesdays 09:00 - 10:00 | 26 January 2021 | 02 March 2021 |
The Advanced courses cover Stages 5, 6 and 7, and are suitable for learners with a CEFR level of B1 and above. More information on our Stages can be found on the assess your level webpage.
MT = Michaelmas Term (October - December); HT = Hilary Term (January - March); TT = Trinity Term (April-June)
*A Stage is made up of three Parts, usually Part 1 is Michaelmas term, Part 2 is Hilary term and Part 3 is Trinity term. However, in some instances we will run another Part 1 in Hilary term due to popularity, please check the timetable carefully. Please note, complete beginners (Stage 1) cannot join Parts 2 or 3 if they have not completed Part 1.
**Learners will be divided into two groups by the tutor, so that one group has their live session for the first 30 minutes, and the second group has their live session for the second 30 minutes.
Fees, funding, enrolment and mode of delivery
If the course on which you would like to enrol is fully booked, please check the timetable to see if the same course is being offered at a different time (many of our courses have several iterations, each with a different day/time for the ‘live session’). In addition, we operate a first-come, first-served waiting list, simply click on the Join the Waiting List button alongside the course of your choice and we will email you if a space becomes available.
Priority funding for Hilary term is now open. The deadline to apply is by 12 noon on Wednesday of Week 1 (Wednesday 20 January 2021).
If you need to learn a language to support your studies, you can ask your college, department or faculty to sponsor you via our Priority Funding scheme. You'll need to seek permission from your tutor/supervisor, obtain the email address of the financial signatory in your college/department/faculty, and click on the link to the Priority Funding Application Form below. Priority Funding is not available for Fast Track courses. See our course handbook for more information.
Colleges will consider refunding students up to half the Fast Track course fees on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please contact your college to find out more about their arrangements before you start your course. A form to record the agreement between a student and their college of their eligibility for the reimbursement scheme is available for students to download below: it should not be returned to the Language Centre.
For Learners with an Oxford University SSO (Single Sign-On) simply click on the enrol button next to the class that you wish to join.
For Learners without an Oxford University SSO, or who are not members of the University, please email admin@lang.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
- Full name
- Email address and phone number
- The name of the course you wish to study (including Stage and Part)
- The start date and time of the course
- Your connection to Oxford University, if any (to determine course fee)
We will then provisionally enrol you onto the course and send you a link to the Oxford University Online Store for payment. Once payment is received we will confirm your place on the course.
What happens after I enrol?
After enrolment you will receive an automated booking email to confirm your payment. From Week 1 you will be added to the course on Canvas (Oxford University's Virtual Learning Environment). You will receive an invitation to join Canvas, please accept it and follow the instructions for your course and make sure to go through your learning pathway before your first live session with your tutor. Course materials will be available a week before each live session. Please make sure that you read the course handbook for the course you wish to take with us as this contains more detailed information.
We will be starting all our courses for 2020-21 through a flexible and inclusive mode of delivery, which will all be online. This will include small group live online conversation classes every week and online learning pathways for preparatory taught content, activities, and feedback - all using the University's Virtual Learning Environment, Canvas.
Having had the opportunity to learn from the experience and feedback from our learners and tutors in Trinity 2020, we are confident that this mode of delivery works well for our community of learners. It enables you to work at your own pace, have access to a complete set of learning materials beyond the life of the course to master and review - it also facilitates high quality feedback both of a generic and individual nature.
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Term by term commitment
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded option available with Priority funding scheme
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1
- Length of live online session: 30 minutes
- Learning pathway including language instruction and guided learning: 1.5 - 2 hours per week
- Recommended self-study and practice time: 2 hours per week
- Focus primarily on reading and on learners' academic needs for the language
- Term by term commitment
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded option available with Priority funding scheme
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1
- Length of live online session: 1 hour
- Learning pathway including language instruction and guided learning: 1.5 hours per week
- Recommended self-study and practice time: 2 hours per week
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Yearly commitment with possible entry point in Hilary term
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded (and contributory) options available with some programmes of Study from selected Faculties / departments (Mathematical Institute, Material Sciences, Physics and Chemistry) see appendix 3 in the Fast Track handbook for further information
- Part funding reimbursed by Colleges (UG) or Faculties (PG) upon completion of course and assessments
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1 (or possibly 2 for Stages 1+2)
- Length of live online session: 1 hour (or possibly 2 x 30 minutes for Stages 1+2)
- 2 learning pathways per week: 3 to 4 hours including language instruction videos and guided learning activities, communicative tasks and feedback
- Recommended additional self-study and practice time: 1 to 2 hours per week
Whether you have been short of time or found it difficult to keep up with your course, or if you prefer learning in a more intensive and focussed manner, we run a selection of our most popular General and Academic courses in an Online Intensive format during Weeks 8, 9 and 10 at the end of each term. Enrolments for these courses will normally open in Week 6 .
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Limited variety of Stages available, mostly beginner and advanced
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Term by term commitment
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Taught in Weeks 8, 9 and 10 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity) – Options for Advanced courses also available pre-term in September
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Number of live online sessions per week: 2
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Length of live online session: 2 x 30 minutes
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Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
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Entry: first-come, first-served
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Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
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Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
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Further resources
Library shelfmark: IT
At Oxford
- 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. Please note: access is limited
to those in the Oxford domain. - The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also
are in print in the library with videos materials available for the listening comprehension examination. - Oxford University Italian Society
General
General courses
- BBC Languages: Italian variety of levels
- Edilingua edizioni on youtube
- 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 encounter a blog on Italian language and culture
- 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
- University of Leeds, Italian Department
- Virgilio guide to the Italian internet
Local languages and dialects of Italian
- Calabrian: proverbs and dictionary (see also Sicilian)
- Corsican lexicon with French Latin
- Piemontese a short guide
- Romanesco: introduction
- Dialetti Meridionali
Dictionaries
- Online dictionaries for all languages
- Dictionaries of Proverbs and Quotations
- R-O Matic Italian-English dictionary
- Treccani
Grammar
- Centro Studi Italiani eclass Grammar fact sheets and exercises
- Dig-Itale Eduware exercises from J.A. Campana at the University of Toronto
- Impariamo l'Italiano check your grammar and learn Italian sayings
Vocabulary
- Smart Phrase. Smart Phrase Online Phrasebook Useful vocabulary and phrase finders in Italian.
Culture
General
- Alma TV an Italian website full of resources for learners with different levels available. Grammar, listening comprehension, even graphic novels are available
- Biblioteca digitale IntraText Online digital archive of Italian literary, theatrical and religious works
- City of Florence Official web site of the Municipality of Florence
- Italian Cultural Institute
- Letteratura.it
- Literature page from Zanichelli excellent documentation on many Italian authors, there is also this page available and
tests available too - Italian woman writers from the University of Chicago
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali It offers news and information about exhibitions, events, archives, libraries and museums
- National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci"
- Nuovo rinascimento
- Photosearch a collection of pictures
- Sette lezioni online History and literature of Southern Italy
- Storia dell'Arte personal site, created by a Liceo artistico teacher
- The Italian Renaissance Bibliography of academic sources on the Renaissance
- Torino film festival
- Tourism in Tuscany
Magazines
- Art Online Contains an updated section on art news, and a list of the main exhibitions. There are sections about old and contemporary artists
- Online daily paper dedicated to the arts
- Undo.net Contemporary art in Italy
- Thais Dedicated to sculpture. In Italian and English
- Sella.it Financial implications in the world of contemporary art
- Repubblicarts Appendix of the newspaper 'La Repubblica', dedicated to the world of art
- Museumland.com In Italian and English, news and information about arguments related to cultural heritage, museums and galleries all around the world
- Mega.it Information about Florence
Museums
FIRENZE
MILANO
ROMA
- Galleria Borghese in Italian and English
- Galleria Colonna in Italian and English
VENEZIA
- Museo Guggenheim In Italian and English
- Palazzo Grassi In Italian and English
- Querini Stampalia
- La Biennale di Venezia In Italian and English
Media
Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page
If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page
- Print
- Ansa press agency
- Avvenire.it
- Internazionale
- Il Foglio
- Il Messaggero
- Milano Finanza
- La Repubblica
- La Stampa
- L'Unità
- Gazzetta dello Sport
- Il Corriere della Sera
- Espresso Online
- il manifesto (quotidiano comunista)
- Il Fatto Quotidiano
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- La Nazione
- The Florentine: the latest news from Florence (in English)
- Online
- Apogeo Online
- Dueparole:il mensile de facile lettura Online newspaper designed for foreign students of Italian
- Naufragi
- Radio
- Radio Italia
- Italia.FM: Italian radio links
- TV
- RAI Educational for learning Italian
- Rai Scuola an excellent resource for discovering Italian culture
- RSI La 1 (Switzerland)
- RSL La 2 (Switzerland)
- RTV Slo (Slovenia)
- Sky It
MOOCs and Miscellany
- EduOpen a MOOC from 14 different Italian universities
- Federica.eu MOOC
- Polimi Open knowledge MOOC from the Polytechnic University of Milan
- 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
Search Engines
Course fees
Useful links
Course textbooks
Information about course textbooks can be found in the course handbooks above.