Interactive games for learning Italian

Audio visual beginners vocab builder

Chic and easy-to-use exercises

A ton of exercises

Lots of good stuff here

Create an account and search for Italian flashcards. Amazing site.

Lots of great learning aids

High quality

History of Italian

Which helper to use - avere or essere - with intransitives (verbs with no direct object)

Italian only but helps you know what to focus on

Hippest Italian slang (definitions in Italian only)

A site worth spending a lot of time on

Pretty much everything you need!

Great article by former tutorino teacher Luna, one of the best we've ever had and a fine person all around

Blog by someone who's practical when it makes sense to be but idealistic when it counts

Once you download this free, clean software and install the Italian dictionary you can ctrl+right-click on any Italian word on any webpage and get an instant English translation!

Read the Italian translation of Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints trilogy online

Complete text of one of Libero Bovio's favourite books (along with Pinocchio)

Italy as seen by ordinary Italians

English lit in Italian, Italian lit in English - side-by-side!

Quotes and aphorisms in Italian from all over the world

Nice Canadian magazine about Italy

Popular Italian science mag (for the layman), with history version too

Tons of great free downloadable Italian ebooks

Required reading

Well written blog by former tutorino teacher and great friend Andrea

Prof in Naples lectures on Dante

This site makes me red, white and green with envy!

Great podcast. You can also subscribe on itunes.

User submitted videos about Italian emigration around the world

Real pizzaioli from Italy teach pizza-making in Toronto

Keep on top of what's happening in Italia

Musica napoletana 24/7

Real Italian music (as opposed to American music sung in Italian)

Your guide to Italy and its products

All about how to learn Italian and how to speak Italian

All about the history and culture of il Mezzogiorno

Mainly a forum for expat Italians

Site advancing the theory that Shakespeare was actually John Florio

Web TV channel all about il Bel Paese

Panorama Italia showcases Montreal's booming Italian culture and community.

Free registration required

The man with the luckiest job in the world

The pen is mightier than the Camorra

One of my favourite writers

Italian-Canadian comic actor and writer, famous as boozy celebrity chef "Marcello Sebastiano" on SCTV, currently behind bars

Organetto whiz kid

Bella ragazza