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Listening-Reading Italian | ||
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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4701 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 7 08 December 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Any suggestions of good books and audio to use for Italian? I am open to paying, so it
doesn't need to be sketchy stuff just because that is all that is available online. I won't be L/R-ing for a while, but wanted to plan ahead so when the time came, I could just order away. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 7 08 December 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've LR'ed the Picture of Dorian Grey and enjoyed it a lot.
The site ibs.it offers audiobooks as paid downloads. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4701 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 7 09 December 2012 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Serpent, thanks for the website suggestion! I feel dumb, but I always thought the best
LR-ing was to do it in a book native to the language you chose! If that doesn't really matter, I think I may just have to find myself an audiobook for "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Of Human Bondage" since they are my favorite books! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6429 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 7 09 December 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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There are plenty of non-sketchy resources online for Italian; see my free, legal audiobooks thread, which also has a link to a parallel text for "I promessi sposi". I tend to use liberliber or librivox, but they're not the only sites on that list for Italian.
All else being equal, LRing something native to your target language is better - but all else never is equal. Having a text you enjoy is very important. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6369 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 7 09 December 2012 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've always found books translated from your native language to be easier to read. One way to approach it is to use them as a stepping stone to books written by writers native to your L2.
The first two Harry Potters have Italian audiobooks. There is also this newish firm that makes Italian audiobooks: emons. I've bought one and it was well done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 7 09 December 2012 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not necessarily from your native language? I definitely prefer things translated from English to those translated from Russian.
And yes, HP is an excellent choice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6369 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 7 10 December 2012 at 4:37am | IP Logged | ||
Good point. I should have written that I usually find Italian translations from English to be easier to read than books originally written in Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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