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Italian in SF




Click here for the Fall 2008 tutoring schedule for Italian (Learning Assistance Center-R-207).

Instructors/CCSF Italian Language Program

  • Da capo, 6/e - Additional exercises and chapter-related activities.

  • Oggi in Italia 8/e - On-line study center includes web links, tutoring center, and chapter by chapter resources to accompany your textbook, 8th edition.

  • Oggi in Italia 7/e - Resources to accompany your textbook. Includes video clips and self-correcting quizzes.

  • Parliamo italiano! 3/e - This site contains self-correcting quizzes, links to cultural sites covers each chapter of your text, and more.

  • Centro Studi Italiani - Online Italian lessons and grammar information. Try the interactive exercises from The Exercise Mill .

  • Italianissimo - The BBC Website to accompany this textbook. Includes video clips, transcripts, and practice exercises. The BBC also offers transcripts of the video program that you see in class.

  • Raiclick TV - This site 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 Barbara Baraff. NEW!!

  • 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. NEW!!!

  • Italian-English-Italian Dictionary

  • Say IT in Italian: technical terminology for everyone

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 Trentino. See the web cam images of the mountains of this beautiful area.

  • 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 inc990000ible site uses images of the XII 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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