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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5348 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 1 of 5 08 May 2010 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those interested in learning Italian, there are two free online video courses with extra materials (transcripts, exercises etc.): I don’t remember having seen them mentioned on this forum before.
They are intended for false beginners—usually immigrants—as unfortunately users need to understand at least some Italian in order to navigate the websites which are entirely in that language. The first one is called ‘L’italiano in famiglia’ and is sponsored by the city of Brescia. It has 20 episodes, each comprising a video which can be streamed or downloaded as a podcast, plus the episode transcript, a textbook and a workbook in pdf format. http://www.italianoinfamiglia.it/corso.asp The second one is called ‘In Italia’ and is a coproduction of the national broadcaster RAI and the Ministry of Education. There are three seasons (and presumably three levels as well) each with 20 episodes. For each episode there are a video with transcript, online exercises (called ‘Attività’) and grammatical and lexical explanations (‘Le parole dell’italiano’). As far as I can see the videos can only be streamed online and cannot be downloaded. According to the website, the videos last a total of 2400 minutes. http://www.initalia.rai.it/default.asp More links to other online materials can be found here: http://cla.unical.it/pages/links_italianoL2.htm and here: http://www.retectpmo.it/cms_published_2/LNKEXERCISE_IT.html but I cannot guarantee that all the links still work—both websites seem not to have been updated in a long while. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5698 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 5 09 May 2010 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Grazie tanto, Emme!
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| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5594 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 3 of 5 09 May 2010 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the links,
Does anyone have any idea what these courses take you to on the CEFR scale. l'italiano in famiglia has a page on cerficiation for when you have completed the course and it does mention a1, a2 and b1 but I can't tell if it is simply listing some of the levels or whether the course can take you through each level. I am currently using Assimil but I have a lot of free time (but no funds for additional material such as books) so this 'french in action' style course may be useful since everything is free and on the site and the episodes can actually be streamed from my phone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7104 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 4 of 5 21 July 2010 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Many thanks for these items (I found them via the "Quest for Italian Fluency" thread). It's great to find resources like this for Italian. Incidentally, I've had a little play and I managed to download Episode 1 of Series 1 without any trouble using a command-line program called rtmpdump. There's probably a naming convention to the files that'll ease this somewhat and once I get a bit of spare time, I'll grab the lot and update this thread - at the moment though I'm having a ball with the Simpsons in French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5609 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 5 of 5 21 July 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Grazie mille! I've been looking for more resources for a while.
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