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Click here for the Fall 2009 tutoring schedule for Italian at the Learning Assistance Center, R-207.

Instructors/CCSF Italian Language Program

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    . Click here to access a great resource for practicing pronunciation. If you need help to use it, ask a Language Center staff member.

  • Da capo, 6th edition, an on-line study center with helpful chapter-by-chapter resources to accompany your textbook.

  • Oggi in Italia, 8th edition, an on-line study center with helpful chapter-by-chapter resources to accompany your textbook.

  • Oggi in Italia, 7th edition, an on-line study center with helpful chapter-by-chapter resources to accompany your textbook.

  • Parliamo italiano!, 3rd edition, an on-line study center with helpful chapter-by-chapter resources to accompany your textbook.

  • Centro Studi Italiani, an excellent website with dozens of resources, activities, and information for learners of Italian. Try the interactive exercises from The Exercise Mill .

  • Italianissimo, the BBC website that accompanies this textbook series. Includes video clips, transcripts of the video program, and practice exercises.

  • Raiclick TV offers lots of streaming video with categories such as travel, variety, news journals, animal world, sports, kids, and various series such as crime dramas and soap operas. Recommended by CCSF instructor Giorgio Spanò.

  • Beelinetv - This internet site offers numerous Italian television broadcasts from Rai News 24h, Canale 66, and others.

  • iRadio podcast - This is helpful for the beginning student of Italian with pronunciation and basic grammar explanations. From language textbook publisher Heinle.

  • Italian-English-Italian Dictionary

Virtual Visits

  • Galleria degli Uffizi - The official web server of the Galleria degli Uffizi (museum) in Florence.

  • Firenze.net - Look up monuments, movies, restaurants, and more in Florence.

  • Le Pagine di Roma - Official website of the city of Rome.

  • Visit the village of Trevigno Romano. See the panoramic movies of the pier, the fortress, and the town center.

  • Strade Romane or Roman Roads. This incredible site uses images of the XIIth century map, Peutinger’s Tabula. Follow the map to view what the Roman legionnaires saw 2000 years ago. You can take the voyage in Italian, English, or Latin.

  • VeNETia - The web site of Venice.

Italian Internet Resources

  • l’ANSA News in Italian

  • TerraMadre - in Italian and English. TerraMadre brings together those players in the food chain who together support sustainable agriculture, fishing, and breeding with the goal of preserving taste and biodiversity.

  • Antologia della Letteratura Italiana Anthologie of Italian Literature

  • Candida Martinelli’s Italophile site. From the delicious to the mysterious, this site highlights Italian food, sweets, coffee, wine, Italian homes, and more, and includes tips on living in Italy. NEW!

  • Italian Sites A portal with sites about everything Italian. Some are in English, some Italian.

  • Open Directory Project - Italian language version. This site strives to be the definitive catalog of the Web. It is developed and maintained by a community of "net-citizens" who are experts in their areas of interest. You'll also find here a link to Italian-speaking Switzerland and a direct line to the Vatican!

  • Yahoo! Italia

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