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Blog for learning Italian

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The Iceberg Project was created from a desire to travel to Italy & speak the language with ease, comfort and confidence. Now, you'll find addictive language & culture lessons for students eager to become conversational in Italian.

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Coffee Break Italian - Season 1 (20 min episodes)

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Coffee Break Italian - Season 1 (20 min episodes)

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Grammar and cultural explanations within context.

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Coffee Break Italian - Season 1 Archives - Coffee Break Languages

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Bentornati! We're back with another lesson of Coffee Break Italian. If there's one topic which everyone loves talking about, it has to be the weather. It's a great conversation starter, and it also will help you plan your activities while travelling in an Italian-speaking country! In lesson 21 you'll learn to talk about the weather.

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podcasts (and website) for learning Italian

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Stitcher Radio The show notes archive starts from the most recent to the least recent. Episode 222: Episode 221: Episode 220: Episode 219: Episode 218: Episode 217: Episode 216: Episode 215: Episode 214: Episode 213: Episode 212: Episode 211: Episode 210: Episode 209: Episode 208: Episode 207: Episode 206: 10 Italian Phrases to Use When You're Busy or Running Late Phrases to Say "This is Delicious!" Italian Word Speed Dates: Altrimenti What's It Like to Be an American Living in Florence? How to Buy Cheese in Italy Useful Phrases to Say When You Freeze and Forget How to Speak Italian Figuring Out Verbs Like Andarsene, Volerci, Avercela, and Entrarci Episode 196: Italian Word Speed Dates: Allora Episode 194: Episode 193:Due Ragazze Pazze: 30 Phrases for Natale Episode 192: Sei cose da fare per imparare l'italiano durante i tempi morti Episode 190: Episode 189: Episode 188: Episode 187: 9 Phrases to Use with a Language Partner Episode 186: Four Q's You Can Ask to Get Authentic Food in Italy Episode 184: Episode 183: Episode 182: 6 Bad Habits I'm Trying to Break in Italian Episode 180: Episode 179: Episode 178: How Dianne Hales Deepened Her Love and Knowledge of Italian to Uncover a Hidden Story 12 Phrases for Making Friends While Traveling in Italy How to Give or Understand Directions Given to You in Italian Episode 174: Episode 173: 12 Easy Mistakes You May Be Making with Italian Irregular Nouns 9 Phrases for Talking About Your Business in Italian Behind the Scenes with Italian Learners from The Iceberg Project Episode 169: 4 Unexpected Ways to Use the Italian Prepositions "di", "da", and "in" Is there really a formula for learning Italian? YES. Episode 166: 7 Creative Ways to Make Your Italian Study Time Even Better Le Sagre in Italia Episode 163: How Tom Made the World His Classroom to Learn Italian by Teaching It (an interview with TomTxxytu) Episode 161: How Rachel Made Her Dream of Living in Florence a Reality (An Interview with Rachel Vermiglio Smith) Italian Word Speed Dates: Siccome, Dato che, and Poiché Episode 158: Episode 157: Episode 156: Is the fluency illusion getting in the way of learning Italian? Episode 154: Episode 153: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Italian (or how to talk about the parts of the body) One Proven Method That Will Help You Remember More Italian Episode 150: How to Say "I Wonder" & Other Forms of Probability in Italian 25 Romantic Italian Phrases (or How to Melt Your Lover's Heart) Episode 147: Episode 146: How to Use the Trapassato Prossimo in Italian (or How to Talk About Things that Happened in the Past) What It's Like to Start Over in Italy (An Interview with Jasmine C. Mah) Episode 143: What's important to Italians during Christmas? (Insights from Carmine Caruso in Italian) 4 Phrases for Curving the Conversation Back to Italian Six Guidelines You Can Use to Choose the "Tu" or the "Lei" Form in Italian What's important to Italians during Christmas? (Insights from Carmine Caruso in Italian) Did You Know You Could Use 'Sentire' and 'Trovare' in These Ways? Episode 137: Is pronunciation or grammar more important? (An interview with Emanuele Venditti) Italian Word Speed Dates: Tanto How to Shop at a Market in Italy Episode 133: Episode 132: Episode 131: Which Words from English Made the Cut in Italian? (or Parole Straniere Usate in Italiano) 15 Quotes to Keep Up Your Motivation for Italian When to Use the Subjunctive Mood and When to Use the Present Indicative Tense Episode 127: Episode 126: How does someone start a business in Rome? (An Interview with Linda + Steve from The Beehive Hotel) How to Write a Birthday Card in Italian (or how to wish friends another year older in a classy way) Episode 123: What would it be like to live in Orvieto, Italy? (An Interview with Toni DeBella) Episode 121: Episode 120: Basic Italian Sentence Structure (or where do I put all of the words!?) The Differences Between Nulla e Niente in Italiano Compliments to Give in Italian 2 Must-Know Connector Words in Italian - Poi and Cosi Phrases to Order Pizza and Gelato in Italian Italian Insults that Will Make You Laugh Out Loud False Friends in Italian Sexy Phrases to Seduce Your Italian Lover (Native Italian Recording) Making Plans Episode 110: Learn Italian Through Drawings with Rosangela - Italian for my Girlfriend
Episode 205: Italian Word Speed Date: Mica
Episode 107: Where You Should Visit in the South of Italy with Native Italian Speaker Marianna Prizio
Episode 204: What's It Like to Be Pregnant in Italy?
Episode 104: Italian Word Speed Dates: Tale, Eccome, e Semmai
Episode 203: Phrases to Talk About Your Italian Lessons (Interview with a Student)

Episode 202: How to Talk About Where You Live

Episode 201: 14 Ways to Say Thank You in Italian

Episode 200: 11 Ways to Say Goodbye in Italian

Episode 199-197: Sigh, all three are lost forever.

Episode 195: Christmas: A Thing of Beauty

Episode 191: Retired
Episode 95: Simple Prepositions in Italian {or why the smallest words hurt the most}
Episode 187: How I've Been Preparing for the CILS Exam

Episode 185: 3 Steps to Making Quick & Satisfying Progress in Italian

Episode 181: 23 Phrases for Congratulating People on New Beginnings in Italian

Episode 177: How to Make a Reservation at an Italian Restaurant
Episode 89: Episode 88: Episode 87: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 2 Episode 85: The Colors in Italian (or how to talk about her bright red lips + his skintight white t-shirt) Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 3 Episode 82: How to Get Your Visa and Work Abroad in Italy with Rick Zullo Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 4
Episode 176: 5 Italian Proverbs to Spice up Your Vocabulary
Episode 78: Episode 77: Episode 76: Una femminista italiana Pt. 2 {Mini-story Series} Episode 74: Episode 73: Episode 72: Episode 71: How Marissa Bognanno Fell in Love with an Italian and Learned Two Italian Languages Future Tense in Italian (or how to fall head-over-heels in love with the future tense) 7 Italian Phrases for Shopping at a Market in Italy Episode 67: Episode 66: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 3 Episode 64: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 1 How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 4 Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives in Italian (or how to talk about what's yours) Una femminista italiana Pt. 3 {Mini-Story Series} Una femminista italiana Pt. 4 {Mini-Story Series}
Episode 175: 4 More Verbs in Italian You Might Be Using Incorrectly

Episode 172: 10 Phrases for Talking About Music in Italian
Episode 56: Due Ragazze Pazze: 30 Phrases for Natale
Episode 171: How to Whip Your Italian Back into Shape Before You Leave for Italy
Episode 53: Episode 52: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 2 Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 3 Episode 49: Italian Present Conditional (or the tense that finally lets you express yourself in Italian) Episode 47: Top 10 Rules You Probably Forgot About Italian
Episode 170: How to Cultivate the Right Mindset to Learn Italian: An Interview with Kevin Morehouse

Episode 168: 3 Things I'm Struggling With in Italian Right Now

Episode 167: 4 Verbs in Italian You Might Be Using Incorrectly
Episode 42: How to Embrace Italian Dialect and Learn Italian with Neapoitan Soap Operas with Traci from Italicissima
Episode 165: How to Efficiently Use Your Study Time to Learn Italian (An Interview with Leanne Pressly)

Episode 164: 7 Things Keeping You From Fluency in Italian

Episode 162: 20 Phrases for Making a Phone Call in Italian

Episode 160: 21 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for Making Pasta in Italian

Episode 159: 22 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for Making Dessert in Italian

Episode 155: How to Count in Italian (or how to make sure you can eat in Italy)

Episode 152: Can you be conversational in Italian with a limited vocabulary? (An interview with Madeline Jhawar)
Episode 33: Episode 32: Episode 31: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.1 Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.2 Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.3
Episode 151: Quiz: Should You Use the Imperfect Tense or the Past Tense?

Episode 149: How I Learned Italian
Episode 25: Episode 24: Episode 23: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 4 Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 5 16 Phrases to Talk about the Date and Time in Italian Episode 19: How to Learn Italian from Novels about Italy Pt.2 Episode 17: How to Express Yourself in the Past Tense and Seven Pieces of Italian Culture
Episode 148: How to Talk About the Weather in Italian (with 16 Phrases for Making Small Talk)

Episode 145: Italian Word Speed Dates: Bastare, Mancare and Piacere

Episode 144: 15 Ways to Say "That's Awesome/cool/amazing!" in Italian

Episode 142: 13 Expressions to Keep Conversation Flowing in Italian When You Forget a Word, a Phrase or a Conjugation

Episode 141: What's it like to live & love in southern Italy? (An interview with Cherrye Moore)

Episode 140: Four Ways to Evaluate if You're "Good" at Learning a Language
Episode 9: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 3
Episode 139: How to Describe People in Italian (or how to talk about what she was wearing, who she was with and what her new hair color is)
Episode 6: Episode 5: Two oh-so-necessary to understand Italian verbs + four basic expressions you gotta' know Episode 3: Episode 2: Episode 1: Just a quick note to say that I have enjoyed your Italian podcast. Over the past few weeks I have binge listened to all of them. - Sergio M. FlashSticks Mango Languages Rocket Italian How to move what's standing in your way of learning a language + 11 basic expressions you need to master Why grammar should take the back seat + 5 phrases that would make your grandmother blush How to create a kickass language learning schedule and create sentences in Italian One expression you'll use everyday in Italy + 3 basic expressions to make your Italian more fluid
Episode 138: How to Talk About Your Family in Italian

Episode 136: What's it like to be an expat in Rome? (An Interview with Tiffany Parks)

Episode 135: Should You Use "Riuscire" or "Potere" to Talk About Being Able to Do Something?

Episode 134: Imperative Mood in Italian (or how to be demanding and give advice in Italian)

Episode 130: What is it like to be an expat in Florence? (An Interview with Alexandra Lawrence)

Episode 129: MISSING!

Episode 128: 12 More Phrases that Stalk the Subjunctive Mood

Episode 125: How to Use "Ne" and "Ci" in Italian

Episode 124: 20 Phrases for Telling a Captivating Story in Italian

Episode 122: 3 Verbs in Italian Every Beginner Should Master

Episode 119: 12 Phrases That Stalk the Subjunctive Mood (or Twelve Phrases that Are Typically Used with the Subjunctive Mood)

Episode 118: MISSING!

Episode 117: Italian Word Speed Dates: Appena, Addirittura, Comunque and Quindi

Episode 116: Sigh, it's lost forever.

Episode 115: What Does it Mean if a Verb is Regular or Irregular in Italian?

Episode 114: 24 Italian Phrases for Spring in Tuscany: Due Ragazze Pazze

Episode 113: Relative and Absolute Superlatives in Italian (or the BEST, the WORST, and HAPPIEST)

Episode 112: How to Learn a Language on Your Own and Hone Your Italian Accent with Luca Lampariello

Episode 111: How to Make Your Verbs, Adjectives, and Objects Agree in Italian

Episode 109: Discover the Real Venice that Tourists Miss with Monica Cesarato

Episode 108: 9 Reasons You're Making Mistakes With Prepositions in Italian and How to Avoid Them (Hint: Most mistakes come from #2)

Episode 106: 29 Ways to Practice Your Italian While You're in Italy

Episode 105: 8 Reasons Your Italian Doesn't Sound Italian (And 8 Fixes to Get to a Near Native Level)

Episode 103: Develop Your Pronunciation and Vocabulary Through Mnemonic Devices with Gabriel Wyner

Episode 102: The Present Tense Gerund in Italian (or how Italians express the -ing tense)

Episode 101: Italian Word Speed Dates: Anzi, Dunque e Piuttosto

Episode 100: 23 Mantras to Motivate You When You Don't Want to Study Italian (or what to read when you need a loving, kick to the butt to keep going)

Episode 99: How to Find and Explore Your Italian Ancestry with Mary Tedesco

Episode 98: Experience an Authentic Italy and Learn to Tell Your Story with Gail Mencini, author of To Tuscany with Love

Episode 97: Articulated Prepositions in Italian {or the baby makin' magic that happens when an article marries a preposition}

Episode 96: Explore Authentic Italian Cooking with Simonetta and Paola of Toscana Mia

Episode 94: 24 Italian Phrases for Spring in Tuscany: Due Ragazze Pazze

Episode 93: What it Means to Be an Italian Mamma and Build a Career in Italy with Trisha Thomas

Episode 92: How to Rent an Apartment in Italy & a Sample Email in Italian for Booking Accommodation

Episode 91: How Lisa Chiodo and Her Family Followed Their Dream and Renovated a Farmhouse in Italy

Episode 90: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 5

Episode 86: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 1

Episode 84: How Sarah Dowling Moved to Bologna and Got Back in Touch With Her Italian Roots

Episode 83: How Sarah Mastroianni Made Siena Her Italian Hometown and Built a Career Around Italian

Episode 81: How Lisa Condie of Better Way Italy Listened to Her Intuition and Permanently Moved to Florence, Italy

Episode 80: Due Ragazze Pazze: 29 Italian Phrases for Carnevale

Episode 79: Una femminista italiana Pt. 5 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 75: Una femminista italiana Pt. 1 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 70: 32 Italian Valentine's Vocabulary and Pick-Up Phrases [Due Ragazze Pazze]

Episode 69: How Krista Ricchi Navigated Becoming an Expat in Italy & Mastered the Italian Language

Episode 68: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 5

Episode 65: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 2

Episode 63: Quick + Dirty Cheat Sheet to Calabrese

Episode 62: Quick + Dirty Cheat Sheet to Romanesco

Episode 61: 8 Essential Phrases for Booking Accommodation in Italy

Episode 60: 8 Random Italian Idioms

Episode 59: When to Use the Imperfect Tense and When to Use the Past Tense in Italian

Episode 58: Italian Imperfect Subjunctive Tense (or how to let go of reality and dream big in Italian)

Episode 57: 3 Main Ways to Use the Word Proprio in Italian

Episode 55: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 5

Episode 54: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 4

Episode 51: Mini-Story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 1

Episode 50: Formal & Informal Italian (or when should I be polite & when can I be casual?)

Episode 48: Indefinite Pronouns in Italian (or words that will help you be vague)

Episode 46: How Melissa Muldoon Went 'Matta' for Italian and What She Built from Her Craziness

Episode 45: The Grand Difference between Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns in Italian (& yes, you have to know them)

Episode 44: The Imperfect Tense in Italian (or the tense that lets you sweetly reminisce on the old days)

Episode 43: 10 Ways to Use the Verb Stare in Conversation

Episode 41: How to Eat the Language, Love Opera, and Become Italian with Dianne Hales

Episode 40: Oh no, this podcast episode has decided not to be heard anymore.

Episode 39: This podcast episode is missing. SEND A SEARCH PARTY!

Episode 38: Whoops. This podcast episode seems to have been permanently misplaced.

Episode 37: This episode is MIA.

Episode 36: GASP x2! This podcast episode has disappeared!

Episode 35: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.5

Episode 34: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.4

Episode 30: GASP! This episode doesn't exist!

Episode 29: How to Use Italki to Become Conversational in a Foreign Language with Sam Bleakly

Episode 28: 10 Must Know Travel Expressions for Ordering Food in Italy

Episode 27: 13 Must Know Travel Expressions for Getting Around in Italy

Episode 26: 3 Effective Methods for Studying a Foreign Language with Sam Gendreau

Episode 22: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 3

Episode 21: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 2

Episode 20: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt. 1

Episode 18: How to Learn Italian from Novels about Italy

Episode 16: 9 (funny + useful) phrases to turn down an Italian man

Episode 15: 8 Expressions You'll Hear Everyday in Italy and 2 Common Irregular Verbs

Episode 14: 3 Ways to Increase Your Memory Using Collocations and 10 More Phrases You Never Learned in the Classroom

Episode 13: 6 More Phrases to Charm Any Italian to Pieces and a Linguistics Trick that Will Enhance Your Memory Capacity

Episode 12: 6 Phrases to Charm the Pants Off Any Italian, Music through Language, and 1 Verb that Wants to Be in Your Life

Episode 11: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 5

Episode 10: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 4

Episode 8: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Part 2

Episode 7: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 1

Episode 4: 3 ways to use Italian in your everyday life and 6 expressions that will make you blush

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Buondì.

What does being 'advanced' or 'fluent' in Italian feel like?

I taught English to Italians for over twenty years, including kids from the age of three, but mostly adults, at all levels from complete beginner to 'advanced', groups and individuals, 'general' and 'business', conversation and writing.

The beginners were always the happiest, despite the obvious pyschological challenges of being unable to understand much or express themselves.

When you're just starting out, you can't help knowing that you know nothing, which is a drag.

But at first everything your learn seems like a huge improvement!

It's so much fun to watch, though evident that the sensation of making amazing progress wears off quickly enough as the months pass.

As a student rises through the 'levels' (a totally artificial concept, and a limited one) they seem to become increasingly dissatisfied.

The more they know, the more they realise how much they don't yet know, and may never. Back in the day, they could understand 'nothing', but with such a fantastic sense of progress they were sure the situation wouldn't last for long.

But now, when they can get maybe a third or a half of what a native speaker is saying, and have a good guess at the rest, any progress seems minimal. It almost feels like going backwards!

And the 'advanced' students are the most miserable of the lot.

They might, for instance, be preparing for an international exam, perhaps so they can go work abroad in some professional role - a medical doctor, say - where high-level language skills are a must.

And objectively they stand a good chance of getting the (really quite hard) qualification they need, given a little time and preparation.

So they should be happy, right?
"When I watch an American film in the original language with no subtitles I can't understand everything!"
You wouldn't believe how many times I heard complaints like that.

"But what do you EXPECT?" I'd reply. "Everything" is such a stupid goal.

You surely do not understand 'everything' in your mother tongue, after all. Don't agree, don't believe me?

When was the last time you listened to the music that teenagers are into? Or read the terms and conditions governing your investments or pension?

You might pretend to understand, but you don't really. No one understands "everything", just as no one is "fluent".

"Fluency", as a concept, is relative, and anyway depends entirely on the task to hand.

You might be fine buying stuff in a shop, or chatting at the bus stop, but how would you do making a speech at a wedding or addressing a board meeting?

No one feels "fluent" all the time, which is why people get anxious about public speaking.

It's just that we're used to our limitations in our mother tongues, while fretting about them unhelpfully in the foreign languages we know.

Back to Italian. People used to remark to me all the time things like "Oh but you're ENGLISH! You have such a strong accent."

They'd not really say "So that's why you make so many mistakes", though I could see it in their faces.

Because I used to teach English to Italians, I always spoke in English, so as to help my students out.

At home too, so as to promote bilingualism in our three (now adult) kids. It worked out well - the eldest (educated entirely in Italian, in Italy) graduated from a Scottish university and is now finishing a post-graduate law course in London.

"You can thank daddy for that", I tell her.

My spoken Italian suffered, obviously, at least in the sense that it never really took off, beyond routine things that I did every day (such as selling English courses...)

In recent years though, since hosting Bug and Roomie, I've spoken mostly Italian, this for the same reason as I used to speak English to my kids.

For them, because they'll need 'fluency' in comprehension and communication, and to instill the confidence that comes from growing up in a home in which people talk to each other, read books, and so on.

Surprisingly, people have totally stopped commenting on my British accent when I speak Italian. I don't remember the last time. Weird, huh?

Better, my brain has finally (after twenty-five years!) started - and of its own accord - making a point of trying to conjugate sentences so that the article, noun and adjective agree in terms of gender and singular/plural.

I always understood that stuff technically (albeit imperfectly). It just never played much of a role when I spoke or wrote Italian. And now, suddenly, it does.

I've even learnt to pronounce papà, with its horrible, final-syllable stress pattern. Though that took several years of actively trying.

To return to my question as to what being 'advanced' or 'fluent' in Italian feels like.

It feels normal.

It feels like you don't have to worry about messing up, or not understanding, because when you don't get your message across easily, or understand what's been said, you can manage the situation anyway.

You just rephrase what you want say. Or say it again, more loudly, and in an irritated tone.

You ask for clarification, but in a way as to make it perfectly clear that the problem was the other person not expressing themselves effectively, rather than any inability to understand on your part.

You use the language CONFIDENTLY.

Remember what I said about C2 (proficiency) students being the most miserable?

With my Turkish, Swedish, French, etc. I'm mostly somewhere in the B (Independent) bands, but happy enough.

There's a lesson there - I'm not 'advanced' or 'fluent' at Turkish/Swedish/French. but what native speakers of those languages might PERCEIVE about me, is that I can get by.

They will hopefully feel that they can chat with me, and that I'll be able to follow.

And that, however strangely I may express myself, I seem to be able to get my message across, somehow or other.

In short, feeling 'fluent' is about familiarity.

It's about getting used to what you can do with a language, but also what you can't do.

And it means not being miserable about those limitations.

A lunedì.

P.S.

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Because EasyItalianNews.com is funded by donations from its users.

Every couple of months they appeal for help, as they are doing this week. The appeal ends on Saturday, after which they'll go quiet again until late January.

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WebTV channel dedicated to the study of Italian language and culture

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"lingua italiana" "italiano per stranieri" italiano "didattica italiano" "learn italian" "alma tv" "italiano corretto" ebook italiano "lingua italiana" "lear...

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ALMA Edizioni | Lingua e cultura italiana

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ALMA Edizioni è una casa editrice specializzata nell'insegnamento dell'italiano come lingua straniera. Questo canale è dedicato a chi insegna e a chi vuole imparare l'italiano, e tutti quelli che amano la cultura del nostro paese.

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Youtube channel

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italiano lezioni corso lessons course grammatica italiana italian grammar

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One World vi offre davvero tanti modi per imparare l'italiano e per migliorare le vostre competenze. Ecco come: 1) Potete venire a studiare in Italia La nost...

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Learn Italian with Manu'

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"learn italian" "speak italian" "italian for beginners" "travel to italy" "italy advice" "italian grammar" "italian promnunciation" "advanced italian" "intermediate italian"

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Ciao, I'm Manu! Italian born and bred linguist, polyglot, translator, academic... blah blah blah! But most of all, I'm passionate about helping people learn ...

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Italian "grammar influencer" :)

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Sgrammaticando è un canale YouTube che si propone di: - Aiutare nello studio e nel ripasso della grammatica e della lingua italiana. - Sensibilizzare a un uso il più corretto possibile, ma soprattutto più consapevole, della lingua italiana. - Trasmettere che scrivere meglio e parlare meglio significa comunicare meglio.

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Italian video travel vlogger

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marcello ascani minimalismo investimenti lavoro "marcello ascani" viaggiare "travel vlog" "come viaggiare" "come investire" "finanza personale"

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Marcello Ascani, nato nel 1997 a Roma e diplomato al liceo artistico di Via Ripetta, dichiara nella sua bio di Instagram di "essere un buon esempio per i vos...

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Youtube videos

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language learn italian pod 101 italianpod101.com italianpod101 speak native speaker italy

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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com - The Fastest, Easiest and Most Fun Way to Learn Italian. :) Start speaking Italian in minutes with Audio and Video less...

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Virtual museum tours (6 Italian museums)

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Virtual museum tours (6 Italian museums)

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free virtual tours

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Every single museum and cultural site in Italy has been closed since March 8 th. Since then, the restrictions on movements within Italy have become much stricter. At the same time, the restrictions on coming into Italy also keep growing, with travel bans, flight cancellations, and airport closures.

In Italy, we are all stuck inside and required to stay home except for when one person per family can leave to do essential shopping for food and medicine. These are truly strange times, and I know that they have (and will continue to) impact people inside and outside of the Bel Paese for the coming weeks and months.

Vacations and dreams have all been put on hold for the time being, but luckily there are some ways to keep experiencing Italy even if you cannot explore in person. There is so much beauty in the world, even if we have to hit pause on seeing it directly in front of us - that is why I put together this list of the best Italian museums you can explore virtually.

From the extensive Vatican collection to Roman ruins, here are the museums in Italy that you can visit online:

Musei Vaticani

The Vatican Museums have some of the most celebrated collections in the world, and it would be impossible to see all of the treasures with a single visit. Luckily, the Vatican has created an in-depth online guide to the collections which includes 360-degree tours and videos of many of the most famous rooms and various wings. You can access those here.

The Uffizi Gallery

La Galleria degli Uffizi is one of the most visited museums in all of Italy. The glorious gallery also has a high-tech online visitor experience which allows you to explore specific rooms or themes, with entertaining and informative captions here. The online exhibits are known as HyperVisions. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of the catalog, the Uffizi also has a digital archive.

The Capitoline Museums

As incredible as it is to step inside the Colosseum or walk through the Forum, many of the greatest Ancient Rome discoveries are actually tucked away inside the Capitoline Museums. You can follow the floorplans and take a fully virtual tour of the collections here until you are able to visit in person once more.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Housed inside Palazzo Brera in Milan, the Pinacoteca di Brera has an impressive collection of Italian artwork, including pieces by Raphael, Bellini, and Titian, among others. The gallery has created an online catalog of 669 pieces, allowing web-based visitors to examine the details of the art and read about the history behind it in Italian or English. The collection can be filtered by date, artist, material, and more. Visit it here.

Trajan's Market

Back in Rome, the museum at Trajan's Market also offers a fully virtual experience to discover the artifacts that have been uncovered around the site.

How many compelling museums do you know that are dedicated to a single item? The Ara Pacis is one of those in Rome. The fabulous modern building is home to a single ancient arch. Examine all the intricacies with the Roman museum's virtual tour here.
Are there any other museums in Italy that you can visit online? Let me know your favorites and I will add them to the list!

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6 Beautiful Italian Museums to Visit for Free Online - An American in Rome

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Every single museum and cultural site in Italy has been closed since March 8th. Since then, the restrictions on movements within Italy have become much stricter. At the same time, the restrictions on coming into Italy also keep growing, with travel bans, flight cancellations, and airport closures.

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un programma televisivo e radiofonico d'approfondimento politico

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Michelesantoro.it: tutti i programmi di Michele Santoro

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Sito ufficiale del giornalista e autore Michele Santoro. Rivedi i programmi, scopri le opinioni e gli approfondimenti sui temi di attualità.

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supplementary activities for students at U of Victoria

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The following exercises have been designed as supplementary activities for Italian 100 students. If you have any comments or notice any errors, please send them to the department of Hispanic and Italian studies.

Please note that the exercises on this site will only work on version 4 browsers (or higher), and many exercises will work better with Netscape.

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The following exercises have been designed as supplementary activities for Italian 100 students. If you have any comments or notice any errors, please send them to the department of Hispanic and Italian studies. Please note that the exercises on this site will only work on version 4 browsers (or higher), and many exercises will work better with Netscape.

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informazione statistica dell'Italia

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L'Istituto nazionale di statistica, ente pubblico di ricerca, È il principale produttore di statistica ufficiale per l'Italia. Interagisce con il mondo scientifico ed opera in autonomia a supporto dei cittadini e dei decisori pubblici.

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la media italiana (TV, radio)

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Rete Due - RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

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Vice-presidente dell'UDC svizzera, ex-Consigliere federale, imprenditore, collezionista d'arte Blocher è anche uno degli uomini più ricchi della Svizzera - e uno dei più noti all'estero per le sue posizioni oltranziste sull'immigrazione e il suo rifiuto di un'adesione della Svizzera all'Unione Europea.

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libri online - testo e audio

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Elenco per AUTORE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

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la notizia fatta in un modo satirico (come The Daily Show)

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Striscia la Notizia: video delle puntate, conduttori, veline e sos gabibbo.

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I video delle puntate di Striscia la Notizia, segnalazioni, servizi e consegne del Tapiro. Leggi tutte le notizie sulle inchieste di Striscia.

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download disponibili dei romanzi classici italiani

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La biblioteca digitale della letteratura italiana Libro cartaceo o libro elettronico? E' questa una delle domande che ricorrono piú spesso quando si parla di saperi e nuove tecnologie. Ma libro cartaceo e libro in formato digitale viaggiano su due binari diversi seppur paralleli che mirano alla stessa meta: la circolazione dei saperi.

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riviste online dedicate alla cucina ed i ristoranti italiani

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Gambero Rosso oltre ad essere un gruppo editoriale multimediale, con le sue guide, il mensile, il settimanale Tre Bicchieri e i programmi di Gambero Rosso Channel (SKY 412), è anche promotore della formazione e della promozione del Made in Italy all'estero.

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la società, l'economia, il territorio

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www.comune.(nameofcity).it - per trovare informazione su una città in particolare

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TV e radio italiane

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I contenuti di RaiPlay sono gratuiti. L'offerta comprende: 14 canali TV RAI in diretta streaming, la Guida Tv per poter rivedere i programmi andati in onda e un vasto catalogo di programmi TV, serie, fiction, film, documentari, concerti, oltre a tutti i programmi di intrattenimento.

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giornali, TV, radio

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY SITE MAP Corporate information Copyright © 2016 RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. All Rights Reserved

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un canale televisivo italiano

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Notizie, anticipazioni e gossip sul mondo della TV. Le migliori serie americane, le trame e i consigli su cosa vedere la sera in televisione

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radio italiana

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Sito ufficiale di Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana

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notizie italiane online

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Ballarò è un luogo di confronto sull'attualità politica e socio-economica, con ospiti in studio e in collegamento.

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un giornale italiano

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Leggi
di Carmine Fotia
"Abbiamo chiesto chi rappresenta la sinistra in Italia: nessuno ha saputo rispondere"

La testimonianza
di Cristina Da Rold
Storia di Manuel, scappato dalla guerra
I datiMigranti, basta dire che portano malattie
FotoScienza senza frontiere, i protagonisti del progetto
RazzismoIl vero problema è l'emulazione

di Susanna Turco

Murgia e Zerocalcare
di Francesca Sironi e Susanna Turco
E' ora di fare l'autopsia del presente

Aboubakar Soumahoro "Sciopero mercoledì"
InchiestaSovranisti d'assalto
Il casoIl figlio di Foa assunto nello staff di Salvini

Il caso Analisi
di Alberta Ferrari
Attacchi a Burioni su Tw: imbavagliato dalle Br
SatiraIronia contro il ministro Fontana
Intervista"No-Vax, rischio per la specie umana"
OpinioneEgoismo e complotto, le due facce dei No-Vax

di Paolo Ercolani

Il caso Inchiesta
di Floriana Bulfon
Un Casamonica sul set di Suburra
ArchivioIl vero volto dei Casamonica
LeggiGiornalisti aggrediti, ma a Roma "La mafia non c'è"

Analisi
di Gigi Riva

Inchiesta Foggia'Chiedevamo protezione, siamo diventati schiavi'

Capital Il caso L'intervista di Redazione

Il caso Opinione "Comunista di m...". Aggressione a Nascimbeni di Lirio Abbate

L'Espresso

di Alberto Flores D'Arcais

di Bruno Manfellotto

di Viviana Gentile

di Caggiati Eliana

Ho visto cose di Beatrice Dondi

Noi e voi
a cura di Stefania Rossini
Mi chiamo Raffaele, ho 78 anni e faccio parte di quei cinque milioni ed oltre di poveri, e dal prossimo anno 2019 - se continuerò a [...]
Scrivi qui Scrivi al Direttore

Qualche riflessione sull'articolo dedicatomi da Stefano Livadiotti ("Poteri & Veleni" L'Espresso n. 28), con il quale peraltro in [...]
Scrivi Manda la tua precisazione

Roberto Saviano

Bernardo Valli

Michele Serra

Denise Pardo

Eugenio Scalfari

Bruno Manfellotto

Michele Ainis

Alessandro Gilioli

Paolo Ercolani

Anna Abate

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Leggi di Carmine Fotia "Abbiamo chiesto chi rappresenta la sinistra in Italia: nessuno ha saputo rispondere" La testimonianza di Cristina Da Rold Storia di Manuel, scappato dalla guerra I datiMigranti, basta dire che portano malattie FotoScienza senza frontiere, i protagonisti del progetto RazzismoIl vero problema è l'emulazione di Susanna Turco

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un giornale italiano

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La Stampa - Ultime notizie di cronaca e news dall'Italia e dal mondo

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Segui le ultime notizie de La Stampa e rimani aggiornato su tutti i fatti di cronaca, politica, economia e molto altro in Italia e nel mondo.

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un giornale italiano

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un giornale italiano

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Il Sole 24 Ore: notizie di economia, finanza, borsa, fisco, cronaca italiana ed esteri

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Notizie di economia, cronaca italiana ed estera, quotazioni borsa in tempo reale e di finanza, norme e tributi, fondi e obbligazioni, mutui, prestiti e lavoro a cura de Il Sole 24 Ore.

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un giornale italiano

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The best resource you can use for daily use in class!