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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4861 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 1 of 9 08 July 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
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I'm loking for some interesting sources for Italian A2/B1 level, but still haven't found anything that would make me satisfied (well, except Routledge Intensive Course that probably is worth a look). So, any proposal is at a premium ;)
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5221 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 2 of 9 08 July 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
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How about Colloquial Italian 1 & 2 with or without audio?
There are tons of Italian podcasts available but I don't know of any specifically aimed at A2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4667 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 9 08 July 2012 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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I suggested Italianpod101.com just the other day: they have a bunch of lessons from
beginner to "intermediate" (plus a blog for "advanced"). I've no idea how they determine their levels, but it all seems to be free (well, the audio is, I didn't try the PDFs). I found this today (via a post here): http://www.listenlive.eu/italy.html. That's live radio, so it's not aimed at learners, but it might prove useful. http://rai.it has various RAI programmes available - again not aimed at beginners, but they do sometimes have shows aimed at teaching Italian kids English, so those might be of some help. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 5085 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 9 21 July 2012 at 2:32am | IP Logged |
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Have you seen 'Italian Beyond the Basics' by Living Language? The pack comes with the textbook, a dictionary, and CDs. It's a twenty-lesson course that assumes you have already completed a course in elementary Italian.
Each lesson begins with a dialogue in Italian, also giving the English translation. Then there are usage and cultural notes about the dialogue. This is followed by grammar notes, which revise the basic grammar you should have already learnt in your first course, as well as introducing more advanced topics. Finally, there are exercises, with the answers provided. It's a pretty straight-forward course, which means you can adapt it to suit your own style of learning (you can order you learning anyway you like). Also, the recordings are entirely in Italian (except for 'Lesson One' etc at the start of each track). The dialogue is given at normal speed, then with pauses for repetition. There is no vocabulary list with each lesson, which I didn't like at first. But because you're expected to know some Italian already, this makes sense. What I do is after repeating the dialogue until fluent, I read the usage and grammar notes. Then I type out the dialogue on my computer part by part (the parts are numbered). I parse each part (usually about one to three sentences) so I can understand how the sentence is made up. If there are any words in that part I don't know, I put them into Anki. Everyday, I begin my study by doing Anki. I studied some Italian some time ago, and have recently taken it up again. I tried doing a beginner's course, but found it slow and boring. I'm loving the Living Language Beyond the Basics course. It revises basic grammar (bringing me up to speed). The dialogues are lively and varied. And the recordings are excellent. Worth a look. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4931 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 5 of 9 21 July 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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I can second the recommendation for Italian Beyond the Basics. I still plan to listen
to those dialogues once I get through my Assimil CDs again. The lack of vocabulary list never really bothered me, but I've really only completed one course that gave lists (a beginner's Living Language course, which I was also quite satisfied with). I found the grammatical explanations clear and incredibly useful. I still pick that book up often to check on the areas I have the most trouble with: the Subjunctive and the Conditional, mostly. My only complaint is that in trying to repeat the dialogues without looking at the text, the gaps between lines (where you're supposed to repeat) are very short. They leave you little time to decipher what was said and say it. You basically have to immediately know the line and be able to repeat it at the same speed the voice actor said it in. It got a little frustrating after a while, but other than that the dialogues were great. I think it's an excellent intermediate course, particularly if you think you're ready for some in-depth grammatical explanations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5613 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 6 of 9 21 July 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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Here's some A2/B1 podcasts with transcripts: link Edited by t123 on 21 July 2012 at 5:39pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nj24 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4665 days ago 56 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French | Message 7 of 9 21 July 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
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I do not know if these are too advanced or too easy than what you are looking for, but you might be interested in
http://www.initalia.rai.it/ and http://www.italianoinfamiglia.it/. These are both free online video courses (entirely in Italian) with some interactive quizzes and activities. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6905 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 8 of 9 21 July 2012 at 8:37pm | IP Logged |
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t123, you've just made my day! Not because of Italian, but because of a Swiss German
podcast with Standard German transcripts from the same website - nice! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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