Italian Student Resources
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Any Level
| LyricsTraining | Practice your listening comprehension skills with music and fill-in-the-blanks lyrics. Adjustable levels ranging from beginner (10% blanks) to expert (type in all the lyrics!). |
| The Fable Cottage | Listen to retellings of classic children's stories with audio transcriptions and optional English translations. |
Principianti
| Prego | The companion website for the Italian 1000 / 1001 textbook. |
| Modern Italian Grammar | Very useful as a reference and for extra practice. |
| Online Italian Club | Exercises at the beginners' level. |
| Cyber Italian | Italian Alphabet and useful phrases. |
| EILanguages | Italian Tutorials Basic Phrases, Vocabulary and Grammar. |
| ILUSS Italian Online |
Grammar, writing, vocabulary, listening, online speaking practice available. |
| Spellic |
Vocab quizzes, hangman, and word games. Always remember to learn the gender with each noun. Definite articles are not tested here. |
| One World Italiano | Grammar exercises at beginners' level. |
| Digital Dialects | Practice your vocabulary playing these games that have audio as well. |
| Puntolingua | Exercises at the beginner level. |
| Duolingo | Make learning Italian fun with this interactive software. Note: Requires you to create a free account. |
Intermedio
| ThoughtCo - Italian Workbook | Italian Workbook Exercises |
| Online Italian Club |
Exercises at the intermediate's level. |
| EI Languages | Italian verbs and their tenses. |
| Puntolingua | Exercises at the intermediate level. |
| One World Italiano | Revision of all tenses at the intermediate level. |
Avanzato
| Puntolingua | Exercises at the advanced level. |
| Video Tutorials | Learn how to speak Italian the Italian way. |
| Italian Native Speakers | One of the best way to learn how to speak a language is to listnen to native speakers. |
Dizionarios
| Larousee | Very helpful English-Italian, Italian-English dictionary. |
| Dizionario | Dictionary of Italian definitions. |
| Word Reference | Online multilingual dictionary word searches from English to Italian, to French, to Spanish, to German, and a host of other languages. |
| Online bilingual dictionaries | Choose from a variety of online dictionaries to help you find the word you're looking for. |
| Linguee | Search and compare the use of words and phrases between English and Italian texts. While Linguee does have an inbuilt dictionary, it is primarily a corpus. Examples should not be universally taken as 1:1 translations. |
| Forvo Pronunciation Dictionary | Type in the Italian word or phrase you want to hear and get pronunciation from speakers around the world. |
News, Arts and Culture
| Transparent Language Proficiency Quiz | Test your level of Italian with this handy quiz. |
| Italian Wikipedia | Practice your reading skills on a topic that interests you. |
| Ciao Italia | Read about current events in this online newspaper. |
| Letteratura | Read about Italian writers on this website suitable for the intermediate to advanced level. |
| BBC Italian | Test your Italian level; learn with crossword puzzles and other games; or complete a self-contained course. |
| Italian Club | Learn Italian and start according to your level. Tutorials available from A1-beginner level to C2-proficiency level. |
| Repubblica | Read about current events in this online newspaper. |
| Corriere della Sera | Watch newsclips from this Italian news site. |
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