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Italian Index

If you're interested in learning French and Italian simultaneously, or using one language to help learn the other, I have started a French & Italian Comparative Tutorial.
The Romance Languages page contains comparative vocabulary lists and verb conjugations for French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Italian I

1. Some Basic Phrases

2. Pronunciation

3. Alphabet

4. Articles and Demonstratives

5. Useful Words

6. Subject Pronouns

7. To Be and to Have

8. Question Words

9. Numbers / Ordinals

10. Days of the Week

11. Months of the Year

12. Seasons

13. Directions

14. Color

15. Time

16. Weather

17. Family and Animals

18. To Know People and Facts

19. Formation of Plural Nouns

20. Possessive Adjectives

Italian II

21. To Do or Make

22. Work and School

23. Prepositions

24. Prepositional Contractions

25. Countries and Nationalities

26. To / In and From places

27. To Come and to Go

28. Conjugating Regular Verbs

29. Reflexive Verbs

30. Irregularities in Regular Verbs

31. Past Indefinite Tense

32. Irregular Past Participles

33. Essere Verbs

34. Food and Meals

35. Piacere and Servire

36. Fruits, Vegetables, Meats

37. To Take, Eat or Drink

38. Commands

39. More Negatives

40. Holiday Phrases

Italian National Anthem

Italian III

41. To Be/Stay and to Give

42. Gerunds

43. Imperfect Tense

44. Places

45. Transportation

46. To Want, to Be Able to, to Have to

47. Asking Questions

48. House and Furniture

49. Comparative and Superlative

50. Irregular Forms

51. Clothing

52. To Wear

53. Future Tense

54. Preceding Adjectives

55. Adjectives: Feminine & Plural

56. More Adjectives

57. Position of sempre and anche

58. Sports

59. To Play

60. Nature

Italian IV

61. Object Pronouns

62. Parts of the Body

63. Interrogative Pronouns

64. Relative Pronouns

65. To Read, to Say/Tell, to Go Out, to Laugh

66. Disjunctive Pronouns

67. Ci and Ne

68. Animals

69. Pluperfect

70. Suffixes

71. Adverbs

72. Passive Voice

73. The Impersonal "Si"

74. Post Office and Bank

75. Useful Expressions

76. Infinitives followed by Prepositions

77. The Beach

78. Problem Verbs

79. Fare Causative

80. Office / School Supplies

 

Italian V

81. Conditional Tenses

82. Parts of a Car / Gas Station

83. To Drive

84. Travelling / Airport

85. Directional Words

86. Use of the Infinitive

87. Subjunctive Mood

88. Uses of the Subjunctive Mood

89. Possessive Pronouns

90. The Farm

91. Historical Past

Language Trainers

Italian Course London
Italian Course Dublin
Italian Course Oxford
Italian Course Edinburgh
Italian Course Leeds
Italian Language Courses

Acquerello Italiano

Acquerello Italiano is an audio magazine for intermediate to advanced Italian learners. It is a subscription program that includes the magazine, an hour-long CD or cassette, plus an optional study supplement. It is designed to improve your vocabulary, grammar and listening comprehension, as well as your cultural understanding of the Italian-speaking world. Each magazine includes about a dozen articles on topics ranging from politics and economics to tourism and geography to music and cuisine.

I highly recommend this program, especially if you do not have access to materials that provide spoken Italian. Each magazine contains the full text/transcript on the even-numbered page, and the vocabulary on the odd-numbered page. There are several notes in English at the end that explain the people and places mentioned. The study supplements include audio flashcards (repetition of phrases from the text), as well as exercises (multiple choice, fill in the blank, etc.) to help improve your vocabulary and grammar.

The program is also available in French - Champs-Elysées, German - Schau ins Land and Spanish - Puerta del Sol.

If you're interested in buying books to supplement your Italian studies, book recommendations are below.

Other Useful Links

BBC Languages - Italian

Italian.about.com

Italian Wikibook

Italian 100 Exercises

Oggi e Domani Interactive Course

La Grammatica Italiana

Basic Italian Grammar

Italian Grammar

Italian Language Study Page

Italian Electronic Classroom

Italian Tutorial

Professor Gio

Podcasts

My Daily Phrase Italian

Learn Italian Pod

World Languages Podcasting


Book Recommendations. Language textbooks are rather expensive and generally only include the formal, written language. You will need more exposure to the real spoken language if you want to be become fluent. In addition to the Acquerello Italiano audio program, as well as a good dictionary, grammar review, and book of verb conjugations, I have used the following books and materials for learning Italian:


Ultimate Italian by Living Language

Teach Yourself Italian Language, Life & Culture by Derek Aust

Better Reading Italian by Daniela Gobetti

Mastering Italian Vocabulary by Luciana Feinler-Torriani

Dictionary of Italian Slang & Colloquial Expressions by Daniela Gobetto

Street Italian 1 by David Burke

Street Italian 2 by David Burke

Streetwise Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus by Nicholas Albanese

Merda! The Real Italian You Were Never Taught in School by Roland Delicio

Hide this Italian Book by Nadja Rizzuti

 


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