Ciao, this is Mara! If you want to learn Italian, listen carefully.
Today we'll go over the best online resources
you can use to learn Italian.
They were chosen and tested by the MosaLingua team, which includes both Italian natives,
like me and Luca, and our colleagues who have successfully learned Italian on their own.
The first resource I suggest is right in front of you... have you
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learning languages. Let's get into today's topic: you have to choose
language learning resources depending on the skills you want to practice
We'll go through each of them, and I'll recommend the resources we like the
most and that, above all, give the best results.
In the video description, you can find all the links to these resources
so that you can choose the ones that suit you.
Let start with listening. Today everything on the internet is just a click away.
Finding resources isn't the problem.
The problem is understanding where to start and how to make your way through an ocean's worth
of content. To improve your listening comprehension in Italian, here's what I suggest:
Podcasts are among my favorite resources because
they're very handy. You can listen to them whenever and wherever you want,
you can pause them and play them again, you can rewind them if you miss something.
If you are a beginner, you can start with the News in Slow Italian podcast.
It's perfect for people who are just starting to learn Italian, because they talk
very slowly. On our blog we wrote a whole article about
podcasts for Italian learners, so check out
the link in the description to choose the right one for you.
Did you know that MosaLingua just created its own audio series, designed for people who want
to learn Italian? It's called "L'Uomo Senza Nome" and it's a
multiple-episode series that tells the story of a man who wakes up in a
hospital with no memories. He doesn't even know his own name!
The course guides you step by step through every episode, so that you not only
get to enjoy a 100% Italian audio series, but
you also increase your knowledge of grammar, broaden your vocabulary,
and improve your pronunciation and listening skills. Euronews is a live news channel
that you can watch online. Watching the news
in Italian is a good exercise, both for learning vocabulary
and improving your listening comprehension.
Now let's talk about resources for reading and writing, two skills that go
hand in hand. Newspaper Map is a nice website to start
with if you're interested in what's going on in Italy.
Choose "Italian" from the language menu, then choose a city
to read its local newspaper. It can be fun to know what's
going on in small towns but if you want to follow nationwide current events,
you should read the country's biggest newspapers.
The Italiano Rai online portal is an interesting, innovative resource for improving your Italian
and learning more about the Italian Constitution.
You can learn about many aspects of our public and social life and with Rai News
and keep up to date on live news.
In addition to online translation tools
like DeepL and Google Translate, and bilingual dictionaries like WordReference,
I recommend bookmarking the Dizionario Treccani.
Besides providing definitions, example sentences,
synonyms and antonyms for every word, this dictionary also gives you access
to the Treccani encyclopedia, so you can learn new things, or just practice reading in Italian.
And last but not least, resources for practicing
speaking in Italian. Many people are a bit scared of
this kind of practice, but with the resources I give you, you'll have a
lot of fun and speaking Italian will be a breeze! iTalki is one of the
best resources for finding a conversation partner to speak Italian with
via chat or videochat. Let's be honest: talking to the mirror is totally
fine but it won't help you make progress like talking to a
native Italian speaker will. A language partner can correct your mistakes and
teach you expressions that only native speakers use. Plus, iTalki is free!
Forvo is a grassroots pronunciation dictionary that anyone can add to
by recording words and expressions in their native language.
It's useful if your conversation partner is not around or if the word
you're looking for is not in your MosaLingua app. A very interesting
thing about Forvo is that words usually have more than one recording, so you
can listen to them read aloud with many different accents.
And finally, we really believe that our MosaLingua Italian app and the
MosaLingua Web platform are amazing, comprehensive resources for learning Italian, and our
8 million users around the world would agree with us! When you use our
app or web platform, you'll not only learn Italian
with an efficient method, specifically designed
to help users commit words and expressions to their long-term memory,
but they are also very rich resources that can
diversify your learning. Well, we're done! Now your toolbox should be full of wonderful
resources, all tested by our team, for learning every aspect of Italian.
In the video description,
you'll find useful links for starting off on the right foot, you just have to
go for it. Start exploring, working toward your goals and incorporating your passions.
See you soon and happy learning!